Manuel Garza
Texas Pastoral Landscape with Bluebonnets

Name: Texas Pastoral Landscape with Bluebonnets
Brand: Manuel Garza
Price: 6000 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

A luminous, oil on canvas painting by Texas plain air painter Manuel Garza (American, B. 1940) measuring 24 by 36 inches. The painting depicts an idyllic nature scene set in Central Texas in the spring. The landscape features majestic oak trees, green mesquite bushes, prickly pear cacti, and fields of the Texas State flower: bluebonnets. The vast landscape expands into the distance beneath a blue sky with fluffy white cumulous clouds. The painting is beautifully framed and ready to hang in a modern, brown wood and gold leaf frame measuring 42 by 30 inches. Manuel Garza (American, B. 1940) Manuel Garza has made his vocation the painting of Central Texas Landscapes. Born in the Hill country, his parents were migrant farm workers. He traveled all over Texas and as far north as Michigan with his family, working along side them in the fields. It was while picking cotton, digging potatoes, and other produce, that he developed a love of the land and the beauty it brings forth. His mother, who loved craftwork, noted his sketching on rest periods and encouraged her son to stay in school, learn, and do something with his talents. He became the only high school graduate in his family. He is a self-taught artist. His only formal training was with Charles Normann at the Texas School of fine arts in 1966-68. There he frequently visited museums, studying the works of Porfirio Salinas, Robert Wood, and other western artists. Although he paints in his studio, his works are influenced by his many long hikes where he often stops to capture the scenery both with photographs and sketches. He strives to depict Central Texas as it really is, Bluebonnet and autumn scenes being some of his favorites. Today his work can be found in the collections of John Connally, LBJ and Lady Bird Johnson, Dolph Briscoe, and many other noted Western Art Collectors. His works are exhibited all over Texas.

Creator:

Manuel Garza

Dimensions:

Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)

Medium:

Canvas,Oil

Movement & Style:

American Impressionist

Period:

Late 20th Century

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