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Modern Pink, Red, and Green Gestural Abstract Painting
By Dick Wray
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful pink, red, and green toned abstract painting by Houston artist Dick Wray. The work features a field of pink accented by thick, gestural strokes of other bright colors. Signe...
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1970s Abstract Texas - Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

"BLUEBONNETS" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY WILDFLOWERS W.A. SLAUGHTER (1923-2003)
Located in San Antonio, TX
W. A. Slaughter (1923 - 2003) Dallas / San Antonio Artist Image Size: 11 x 14 Frame Size: 17 x 19.5 Medium: Oil on Canvas "Bluebonnets" Biography W. A. Slaughter (1923 - 2003) Willia...
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1970s Impressionist Texas - Paintings

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Oil

"BLUEBONNETS" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY WILDFLOWERS W.A. SLAUGHTER (1923-2003)
Located in San Antonio, TX
W. A. Slaughter (1923 - 2003) Dallas / San Antonio Artist Image Size: 11 x 14 Frame Size: 17 x 19.5 Medium: Oil on Canvas "Bluebonnets" Biography W. A. Slaughter (1923 - 2003) Willia...
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1990s Impressionist Texas - Paintings

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Oil

"BLUE HEAVEN" BLUEBONNET 1930s NEWCOMB MACKLIN FRAME 38 x 46 Framed Robert Wood
Located in San Antonio, TX
Robert Wood (G. Day) (1889 -1979) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 28 x 36 Frame Size: 38 x 46 Medium: Oil on Canvas Signed Front & Signed & Titled on Verso Newcomb Macklin Frame Circa Late 1930s "Blue Heaven" Bluebonnets Biography Robert Wood (G. Day) (1889 -1979) A painter of realistic landscapes reflecting a vanishing wilderness in America, Robert Wood (not to be confused with Robert E. Wood) is reportedly one of the most mass-produced artists in the United States. His painting became so popular he was unable to meet all of the demands, and many of his works were reproduced in lithographs and mass distributed as prints, place mats, and wall murals by companies including Sears, Roebuck. He was born in Sandgate, Kent on the south coast of England near Dover, the son of W.L. Wood, a famous home and church painter who recognized and supported his son's talent. In fact, he forced his son to paint by keeping him inside to paint rather than playing with his friends. At age 12, Wood entered the South Kensington School of Art. As a youth, he came to the United States in 1910, having served in the Royal Army, and he never returned to England. He traveled extensively all over the United States, especially in the West, often in freight cars, and also painted in Mexico and Canada. His itinerant existence took him to Illinois where he worked as a farmhand, to Pensacola, Florida where he married, briefly in Ohio, Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. In 1912, he was in Los Angeles, and in the late 1920s and early 1930s, in San Antonio, Texas, where he lived and in 1928 exhibited in the "Texas Wildflower Competition." From San Antonio, he gained a national reputation for his strong colored, dramatic paintings. Some of that prestige has been credited to his association with Jose Arpa, prominent Texas artist. Wood also gave art lessons, and one of his students was Porfirio Salinas. During this period, Wood sometimes signed his paintings G. Day or Trebor, which is Robert spelled backwards. In 1941 he went to California and painted numerous desert and mountain landscapes and coastal scenes. He lived in Carmel for seven years, and then moved to Woodstock, New York, but he soon returned to California, settling first in Laguna Beach, then San Diego, and finally in the High Sierras, where he and his wife built a home and studio near Bishop and lived until his death in 1979. Robert Wood was born March 4, 1889, in Sandgate, England, a small town on the Kentish coast not far from the white cliffs of Dover. His father, W. J. Wood, was a successful painter who recognized Robert's unusual talent. At the age of twelve, his father enrolled Wood in art school in the small town of Folkstone. He then attended the South Kensington School of Art. While attending art school, Wood won four first awards and three second awards, one each year, a record. In 1910 after service in the Royal Army, nineteen-year-old Wood and his friend, Claude Waters, immigrated to America. Initially, he settled in Illinois and worked as a hired hand on a farm belonging to Water's uncle. He would then strike out on his own, living the life of an itinerant painter. Wood traveled as a hobo, hopping freight trains and selling or bartering small paintings to support him along the way. When times were hard, he worked at whatever job was available. In this manner, he saw most of the United States and fell in love with rural America. By 1912, Wood visited Los Angeles for the first time, arriving on the day of the Titanic tragedy. Later that year, he had met, courted and married young Eyssel Del Wagoner in Florida. The couple moved to Ohio where a daughter, Florence, was born. During World War I, the family moved to Seattle where a son, John Robert Wood, was born in 1919. In the early 1920's, the young Wood family was almost constantly on the move. They stayed for short periods in Kansas, Missouri, California and for a longer time in Portland, Oregon, where Wood's friend Claude Waters had settled. Wood's seemingly endless wanderings disrupted his family life and delayed his development as a painter. However, through his travels he developed an appreciation for the American landscape that would inspire him for the rest of his career. Although aware of the current movement away from traditional realism in American art, he elected to travel that solitary path and remain true to his own vision of American’s grandeur and beauty poetically translated through his landscape and seascape paintings. In 1923, the Wood family discovered the beautiful city of San Antonio, Texas and it was there that he and his family would finally settle. He studied briefly at the San Antonio Art School with Spanish colorist Jose Arpa y Perea (1860-1952), who had arrived in San Antonio that same year. In the latter part of the 1920’s, Jose Arpa’s influence quickly became evident. Wood after several years of experimentation was becoming fine easel painter, capable of great subtlety with a new mature original style. Like Texas painters Robert Onderdonk (1853-1917) and his son Julian Onderdonk (1882-1922), Robert Wood concentrated on the distinctive Texas landscape with its Red Oak trees and wildflowers that covered the hill country landscape. He developed a reputation for his scenes of Blue Bluebonnets, the state flower. In the spring, the Texas prairie is covered with wildflowers, especially in the hill country surrounding San Antonio and Austin. Wood incorporated native stone barns and rough wood farmhouses that added authenticity and romance to his compositions. In 1925, Wood was divorced from his wife. In 1932, he moved to the famous scenic loop on San Antonio's outskirts. While still living in Texas, he took extensive western sketching trips that brought him to California. It is evident that his 1930’s California...
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1930s Impressionist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil

"RED BARN RANCH" 1959 TEXAS HILL COUNTRY LANDSCAPE WILDFLOWERS PORFIRIO SALINAS
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 12 x 16 Frame Size: 19 x 23 Hand Carved "Melvin" Frame Medium: Oil on Canvas Signed Lower Left 1959 "Red Barn Ranch" Texa...
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1950s Impressionist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil

"TEXAS HILL COUNTRY" 1951 WILDFLOWER LANDSCAPE PORFIRIO SALINAS 59 X 49 FRAMED
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 50 x 40 Frame Size: 59 x 49 Medium: Oil on Canvas. Signed 1951 “Hill Country in Spring “ Biography Porfirio Salinas (1910...
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1950s Impressionist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Arrows & Cents" Contemporary Abstract Green, Red, & Yellow Target Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary colorful target painting by Texas based artist Nick Stevenson. The work features a central neon red, green, and yellow target flanked by the text "Arrows & Cents." Signe...
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2010s Contemporary Texas - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Floral Still Life Oil Painting, Realist Style, 20th Century, Framed
Located in Plano, TX
Oil painting measures 12 x 9; frame dimensions measure 19 3/8 x 16 3/8 x 3. Housed in an elegant gold-tone frame with decorative edges. Illegible signature, lower right. Support patc...
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20th Century Realist Texas - Paintings

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Oil

"College-Ruled No. 4" Contemporary Neutral Navy, Blue, & Green Abstract Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary neutral toned abstract painting by Houston-based artist Kristen Anton. The work features light blue tones accented by pops of navy and green. Signed, titled, and dated o...
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2010s Contemporary Texas - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Body Art
By Kismine Varner
Located in Houston, TX
Acrylic body art featuring upper torso, arms and face by American artist Kismine Varner, circa 1990. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displaye...
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1990s Texas - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Modern Abstract Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Lively abstract painting with primary tones of yellows, reds and greens with accents of blue and black on white background, 1952. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper dis...
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1950s Texas - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Reclined Female Nude
By Esther Meyer
Located in Houston, TX
Striking female nude in reclined back seated position on red blanket in ink and watercolor by English artist Esther Meyer, circa 1950. Original artwork on paper displayed on a whit...
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1950s Texas - Paintings

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

"Bluebonnets Texas Hill Country"
Located in San Antonio, TX
Robert Wood (G. Day) (1889 -1979) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 20 x 24 Frame Size: 29 x 33 Medium: Oil Signed Lower left "Bluebonnet" Biography Robert Wood (G. Day) (1889 -1979) A painter of realistic landscapes reflecting a vanishing wilderness in America, Robert Wood (not to be confused with Robert E. Wood) is reportedly one of the most mass-produced artists in the United States. His painting became so popular he was unable to meet all of the demands, and many of his works were reproduced in lithographs and mass distributed as prints, place mats, and wall murals by companies including Sears, Roebuck. He was born in Sandgate, Kent on the south coast of England near Dover, the son of W.L. Wood, a famous home and church painter who recognized and supported his son's talent. In fact, he forced his son to paint by keeping him inside to paint rather than playing with his friends. At age 12, Wood entered the South Kensington School of Art. As a youth, he came to the United States in 1910, having served in the Royal Army, and he never returned to England. He traveled extensively all over the United States, especially in the West, often in freight cars, and also painted in Mexico and Canada. His itinerant existence took him to Illinois where he worked as a farmhand, to Pensacola, Florida where he married, briefly in Ohio, Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. In 1912, he was in Los Angeles, and in the late 1920s and early 1930s, in San Antonio, Texas, where he lived and in 1928 exhibited in the "Texas Wildflower Competition." From San Antonio, he gained a national reputation for his strong colored, dramatic paintings. Some of that prestige has been credited to his association with Jose Arpa, prominent Texas artist. Wood also gave art lessons, and one of his students was Porfirio Salinas. During this period, Wood sometimes signed his paintings G. Day or Trebor, which is Robert spelled backwards. In 1941 he went to California and painted numerous desert and mountain landscapes and coastal scenes. He lived in Carmel for seven years, and then moved to Woodstock, New York, but he soon returned to California, settling first in Laguna Beach, then San Diego, and finally in the High Sierras, where he and his wife built a home and studio near Bishop and lived until his death in 1979. Robert Wood was born March 4, 1889, in Sandgate, England, a small town on the Kentish coast not far from the white cliffs of Dover. His father, W. J. Wood, was a successful painter who recognized Robert's unusual talent. At the age of twelve, his father enrolled Wood in art school in the small town of Folkstone. He then attended the South Kensington School of Art. While attending art school, Wood won four first awards and three second awards, one each year, a record. In 1910 after service in the Royal Army, nineteen-year-old Wood and his friend, Claude Waters, immigrated to America. Initially, he settled in Illinois and worked as a hired hand on a farm belonging to Water's uncle. He would then strike out on his own, living the life of an itinerant painter. Wood traveled as a hobo, hopping freight trains and selling or bartering small paintings to support him along the way. When times were hard, he worked at whatever job was available. In this manner, he saw most of the United States and fell in love with rural America. By 1912, Wood visited Los Angeles for the first time, arriving on the day of the Titanic tragedy. Later that year, he had met, courted and married young Eyssel Del Wagoner in Florida. The couple moved to Ohio where a daughter, Florence, was born. During World War I, the family moved to Seattle where a son, John Robert Wood, was born in 1919. In the early 1920's, the young Wood family was almost constantly on the move. They stayed for short periods in Kansas, Missouri, California and for a longer time in Portland, Oregon, where Wood's friend Claude Waters had settled. Wood's seemingly endless wanderings disrupted his family life and delayed his development as a painter. However, through his travels he developed an appreciation for the American landscape that would inspire him for the rest of his career. Although aware of the current movement away from traditional realism in American art, he elected to travel that solitary path and remain true to his own vision of American’s grandeur and beauty poetically translated through his landscape and seascape paintings. In 1923, the Wood family discovered the beautiful city of San Antonio, Texas and it was there that he and his family would finally settle. He studied briefly at the San Antonio Art School with Spanish colorist Jose Arpa y Perea (1860-1952), who had arrived in San Antonio that same year. In the latter part of the 1920’s, Jose Arpa’s influence quickly became evident. Wood after several years of experimentation was becoming fine easel painter, capable of great subtlety with a new mature original style. Like Texas painters Robert Onderdonk (1853-1917) and his son Julian Onderdonk (1882-1922), Robert Wood concentrated on the distinctive Texas landscape with its Red Oak trees and wildflowers that covered the hill country landscape. He developed a reputation for his scenes of Blue Bluebonnets, the state flower. In the spring, the Texas prairie is covered with wildflowers, especially in the hill country surrounding San Antonio and Austin. Wood incorporated native stone barns and rough wood farmhouses that added authenticity and romance to his compositions. In 1925, Wood was divorced from his wife. In 1932, he moved to the famous scenic loop on San Antonio's outskirts. While still living in Texas, he took extensive western sketching trips that brought him to California. It is evident that his 1930’s California...
Category

1950s Impressionist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil

"OCOTILLOS, WEST TEXAS DESERT" IN NEWCOMB MACKLIN FRAME LARGER WORK NEAR EL PASO
Located in San Antonio, TX
Lewis Teel (1883-1960) El Paso Artist Image Size: 27 x 36 Frame Size: 33 x 43 Medium: Oil on Board Circa Late 1930s Signed Lower left and on original price tag on verso. "Ocotillos"...
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1930s Impressionist Texas - Paintings

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Oil

"Sunflowers" After Van Gogh Black Texas Folk Artist Leon Collins deceased 2025
By Leon Collins
Located in San Antonio, TX
Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown, died 2025 Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist Image Size: 36 x 24 Medium: Acrylic on Giclee "Sunflowers" After Van Gogh Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown-D...
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21st Century and Contemporary Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil

"BLOWIN' IN" WESTERN G. HARVEY PAINTING 28 X 38 FRAME SIZE DATED 1974
By G. Harvey
Located in San Antonio, TX
G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 20 x 30 Frame Size: 28 x 38 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dated 1974 "Blowin' In" Sign...
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1970s Impressionist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Don't Hurt Me
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category

1970s Surrealist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

August Sunset Impressionism Seascape Framed Water Texas Artist Marine Dawn $700
Located in Houston, TX
August Sunset Impressionism Seascape Framed Water Texas Artist Marine Dawn $950 Framed 11" x 13". Is part of newly released small works from V....Vaughan's collection of recent travels. V....Vaughan painted each of these on location "en plein air" It has an Impressionistic Style as seen in many of Virginia Vaughan's paintings. V....Vaughan is know for her animal, Texas missions Italy, France and Gulf Coast paintings...
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2010s American Impressionist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Nude
Located in Dallas, TX
oil on canvas
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2010s Abstract Texas - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

American Impressionist Painting of Women Standing in an Open Field Landscape
By André Gisson
Located in Houston, TX
Early American Impressionist painting by New York born artist André Gisson. The work features a group of three women standing in an open field. The loose brushwork gives the impressi...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Blues Overlapping Orange 47 x 47 Abstract Art Bold Colors $4400 Geometric
Located in Houston, TX
Blues Overlapping Orange 47 x 47 Abstract Art Bold Colors $4400 Geometric Shapes Other painting by Marilyn Biles shown in images As life often does, the life of Marilyn Biles h...
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1990s Abstract Texas - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Modern French Abstract
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary acrylic abstract using eye catching hues of orange, red, green and blue, circa 1970. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival p...
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1970s Texas - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Paper

1960s "Fruit Bowl in Mexico" Gouache & Oil Pastel Abstract Mid Century
By Gloria Dudfield
Located in Arp, TX
Gloria Dudfield Mexican Fruit Bowl 1960s Oil Pastel and Gouache on Paper 36"x32" unframed $1600 *Custom framing available for additional charge. Please...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Texas - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache

Black & White Lounger Abstract Painting, Acrylic on Paper, 1980s
Located in Arp, TX
Artist unknown "Black & White Lounger" c. 1980s Acrylic on Strathmore paper 40.5"x25.75" unframed Unsigned Very Good Condition - Minor wear consistent with age and history 2" tear o...
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1980s Abstract Texas - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

{Blumen in Vase} Flowers in Vase
Located in Plano, TX
Impressionistic oil painting of a bouquet of pink and white flowers. Hass, a late Impressionist painter of the Munch school, was known for his sensitivity of color perception and lig...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil

1960s "House with Yellow Windows" Encaustic Oil Paint Abstract NYC Artist
By Martin Rosenthal
Located in Arp, TX
Martin Rosenthal "House with Yellow Windows" c. 1960s Encaustic & Oil paint on paper 20"x13" unframed Signed and dated in ink lower left Martin Ro...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Texas - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Encaustic, Oil

"Siphon Noir" Modern Cubist Inspired Blue, Red, and Pink Abstract Still Life
By Marcel Mouly
Located in Houston, TX
Modern Cubist inspired colorful abstract still life painting by the French artist Marcel Mouly. The work features a collection of bottles and vases arranged on a red table that has b...
Category

1990s Cubist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"THE BLOW OUT" G. HARVEY TEXAS WOODEN OIL DERRICK SCENE LARGE 71 X 51 FRAMED
By G. Harvey
Located in San Antonio, TX
G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 60 x 40 Frame Size: 71 x 51 Medium: Oil on Canvas Signed 1980 "The Blowout" Woo...
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1980s Impressionist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Abstract - Bright Colored Avian Flish "Envol"
Located in Houston, TX
Expressive and bright abstract acrylic painting with hints of avian flight, 1975. Displayed on a white mat with a gold border and fits a standard-size frame. Archival plastic sleev...
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1970s Abstract Texas - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Paper

"PRICKLY PEAR" TEXAS HILLCOUNTRY
Located in San Antonio, TX
Dorothy Johnson Image Size: 12 x 16 Frame Size: 14.5 x 18.5 Medium: Oil "Prickly Pear"
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20th Century Impressionist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil

"RANCHERS REWARD" COWBOYS, HORSEBACK, FRAMED 41 X 59 G. HARVEY TEXAS ARTIST
By G. Harvey
Located in San Antonio, TX
G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 30 x 48 Frame Size: 41 x 59 Medium: Oil "Ranchers Reward" Dated 1975 Signed Low...
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1970s Impressionist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Naturalistic Landscape Painting of Horse Standing in a Field by a Polo Tent
By George Cole
Located in Houston, TX
Early naturalistic landscape painting of a horse attributed to English artist George Cole. The work features a horse in a green field with a polo match going on in the far distance. ...
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1870s Naturalistic Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Kaleidoscope" Contemporary Large Abstract Floral Textile Inspired Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary large scale abstract floral painting by Texas based artist Wood Anthony Francher. Inspired by Mexican floral embroidery patterns and textiles, the work is a burst of bol...
Category

2010s Contemporary Texas - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Texas Field , Texas landscape oil painting, Contemporary Impressionistic style
By Steve Parker
Located in Houston, TX
Texas Field contemporary oil landscape painting on canvas 30 x 40 painted in 2020 by Texan artist Steve Parker conveys his understanding of Texas landscapes and the use of native tr...
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2010s Impressionist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cotton Canvas

"REST STOP" LONGHORN STEER & WOODEN WINDMILL WESTERN THEMED.
Located in San Antonio, TX
David Sanders (1933-2013) Austin Artist Image Size: 21 x 17 Frame Size: 29 x 25 Medium: Pastel 1984 "Rest Stop" Longhorn & Windmill David Sanders (1933-2013) Known for his oil pastel...
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1980s American Realist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Pastel

"Verdant" Contemporary Neutral Toned Gestural Abstract Expressionist Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Neutral toned gestural abstract painting by contemporary artist Ian Francis. The work features a variety of gestural marks in white and tan, accented by a black square. Signed, title...
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2010s Abstract Texas - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

"JUST ENOUGH SHADE" ARIZONA ARTIST ROSS STEFAN (1934-1999) WESTERN HORSES MORE
Located in San Antonio, TX
Ross Stefan (1934-1999) Image Size: 16 x 25 Frame Size: 26 x 34 Medium: oil on canvas "Just Enough Shade" Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Ross Stefan became a painter of western scenes...
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20th Century Impressionist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil

“American Rural, Shack II” Contemporary Colorful Pastoral Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary colorful pastoral landscape by Texas based artist Jacob Spacek. The work features a bright blue shack in the middle of an open field set against a vibrant red sky. Signe...
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2010s Contemporary Texas - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Golden Touch" Contemporary Abstract Blue and Maroon Concentric Circle Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Blue and maroon abstract contemporary circular painting by Houston, TX artist David Hardaker. Signed, titled, and dated by the artist on the reverse. Artist Statement: The work is ...
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2010s Contemporary Texas - Paintings

Materials

Enamel

"PUEBLO" NATIVE AMERICAN MARCH IN FRONT OF PUEBLO ARIZONA ARTIST
Located in San Antonio, TX
Ross Stefan (1934-1999) Arizona / Wisconsin Artist Image Size: 7.5 x 6.5 Frame Size: 18 x 16 Medium: Oil "Pueblo" Biography Ross Stefan (1934-1999) Born in...
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20th Century Impressionist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Contemporary Abstract Three Cowboys Against Green Western Figure Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary colorful western inspired cowboy painting by Texas based artist Nick Stevenson. The work features a trio of abstracted cowboys in various poses set against a green and p...
Category

2010s Contemporary Texas - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

"Bluebonnet Creek" Texas Hill Country 1957 39 x 49 Framed!!!
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 30 x 40 Frame Size: 39 x 49 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dated 1957 "Bluebonnet Creek" Texas Hill Country Biography Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) Porfirio Salinas was a self-taught artist who painted landscapes of Central Texas with an emphasis on the vast bluebonnet fields that grow there in the springtime. Born in 1910 in Bastrop, Texas, he attended public schools in San Antonio. He also observed works in progress by the director of the San Antonio Art School, Jose Arpa, as well as landscape painter, Robert Wood. Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets". Salinas served in the military from 1943 to 1945. Although he was assigned to Fort Sam Houston, he was allowed to live at home. At the fort, Colonel Telesphor Gottchalk assigned him to paint murals for the officer's lounge and various other projects, and Salinas continued to be able to paint during his entire conscripted period. Even before he achieved notoriety among galleries, dealers, and museums, Salinas was widely followed and appreciated by many Texans, including former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who may be considered responsible for launching Salinas popularity beyond the boundaries of Texas. In 1973, Texas capital, Austin, honored Salinas for having "done much to bring the culture of Mexico and Texas closer together with his paintings". Salinas died in April 1973 in San Antonio, Texas. From the years of the Great Depression through President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society of the 1960s, Texan Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) remained one of the Lone Star State's most popular artists. Today, his works remain popular with Texas collectors and those who love landscapes of the beautiful "Hill Country" that lies in the center of the state. One of the first Mexican American painters to become widely recognized for his art, Salinas was a favorite of President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, as well as of Sam Rayburn, the longest-serving Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Texas Governor John Connelly. In fact, President Johnson was so enamored with his Salinas paintings that the artist will forever be associated with America's first Texas-born President. Works by Porfirio Salinas are in a number of museum collections, grace the halls of the Texas State Capitol and the Governor's Mansion in Austin, and are included in virtually every major private collection of Early Texas Art. Porfirio Salinas was born on November 6, 1910, near the small town of Bastrop, Texas, about thirty miles from Austin. His father, Porfirio G. Salinas (1881-1967), and his mother, Clara G. Chavez, struggled to make a hardscrabble living as tenant farmers, but eventually were forced to give up farming. The family moved to San Antonio, where Salinas' father was able to get a job working as a laborer for the railroad, but the scenic area around Bastrop, with its pine trees and the wide expanse of the Rio Grande River, would forever remain a touchstone for the artist. For the rest of his life, Salinas and his brothers went back frequently to visit their grandmother in her little farmhouse. When in Bastrop, Porfirio painted on the banks of the Rio Grande or in the groves of pine trees. The Salinas family was close-knit and Porfirio was the middle child of five children, so he had an older brother and sister as well as a younger brother and sister. His mother was a native of Mexico, so throughout his childhood the family made the long drive to Mexico to visit Clara Salinas' family. As a child growing up in the bi-lingual section of San Antonio, Salinas drew and painted incessantly and by the time he was ten, he was already producing work that was mature enough to sell to his schoolteachers. Many years later in an article in the New York Times he was described as a "boy whose textbooks were seldom opened and whose sketchbook was never closed." Instead of studying, the young artist spent his spare time watching artists paint in and around San Antonio. As an aspiring painter, Salinas was fortunate to grow up in the historic city, which had the most active art scene in Texas. It was his exposure to older, professional painters that encouraged the precocious young painter to leave school early in order to help his family and pursue a career as a professional artist, despite his father's inability to see art as a career with any future for his son. When Salinas was about fifteen he came to know the artist Robert W. Wood (1889-1979). He met Wood while he was employed in an art supply store and he soon began to work as an assistant to the English-born painter, who had moved from Portland to San Antonio in 1924. Although the diminutive Englishman was already an established professional artist, he did not have a great deal of formal art training and so he was then studying with the academically trained Spanish painter Jose Arpa (1858-1952) in order to augment his knowledge and give his work a more polished look. Salinas was an eager young man, and while working in Wood's downtown San Antonio studio he learned to stretch canvases, frame paintings and to sketch in larger compositions from small plein-air studies for the English artist. He began to accompany Wood and Arpa to the hills outside San Antonio, where they painted small Plein-air studies of fields of blue lupin - the state flower, the famous "Bluebonnets" of Texas - in the springtime and scenes of the gnarled Red Oaks as they changed color in the fall. He was soon assisting Wood in the tedious work of painting the tiny blue flowers that collectors wanted to see in the landscapes they purchased of central Texas. According to a 1972 newspaper story, "Legend has it that one day in the 1920s artist Robert Wood decided he could not bear to paint another bluebonnet in one of his landscapes. He hired young Porfirio Salinas to paint them in for him at five dollars a painting." Whether this story is accurate or apocryphal isn't clear, but the ambitious and independent young Salinas wasn't destined to be anyone's assistant for very long. The formative event of Porfirio Salinas' teenage years was the Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibitions, a Roaring-Twenties dream of the eccentric oilman Edgar B. Davis (1873-1951). These competitive shows of paintings of wildflowers and Texas life were mounted in San Antonio from 1927 to 1929. Held at the newly opened Witte Museum each spring, the exhibition featured large cash prizes donated by the philanthropic Davis, which were an inducement for artists to travel from all over the United States to paint in the Hill Country of Texas. The "Davis Competitions," as they were known, helped to cement San Antonio's reputation as an art center, a legacy that remains with the "River City" today. The shows generated a great deal of excitement in the area, helping to make celebrities of the some of the artists who had already settled there and encouraging others to make San Antonio their home. Over the three years that the wildflower competitions were held, more than 300 paintings were exhibited, and many thousands of viewers saw the paintings at the Witte Museum and on tours throughout the state and in New York. Each year Davis would generously purchase the winning paintings and then donate them to the San Antonio Art League. Young Porfirio Salinas would have been able to not only watch his two mentors - Robert W. Wood and Jose Arpa - paint the works that they entered in the Davis Competitions, he would have been able to see Arpa take several of the major prizes, receiving the judge's accolades for "Verbena," "Cactus Flower" and "Picking Cotton," works that are still on view at the San Antonio Art League Museum today. Unfortunately, Davis eventually put his donations to work in other charitable endeavors, bringing to an end the wildflower events, but only after they inspired Salinas and other young painters and had helped to make wildflower paintings the most sought-after subject for traditionalist Texas collectors. In 1930, when he was only twenty, Salinas hung out a shingle and began to paint professionally, augmenting the sales of his easel paintings with what little business he could garner by painting signs for local concerns. It was a struggle for the young artist to make a living, as the effects of the Great Depression were settling in. His early works are very similar to those of Robert Wood's, both in subject matter and treatment. Salinas did small paintings of Bluebonnets for the tourists who visited San Antonio to see the famous Alamo as well as paintings of the Texas missions...
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1950s Impressionist Texas - Paintings

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Oil

1950s "Black Floor" Mid Century Bay Area Figurative Movement Gouache Painting
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry Opper & Ruth Friedman Opper Black Floor c. 1940-1950's Gouache on Paper 15" x 18" Unframed *Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framing time between 3-5 weeks. From the estate of Ruth Friedmann Opper & Jerry Opper. Ruth was the daughter of Bauhaus artist, Gustav Friedmann. San Francisco Abstract Expression A free-spirited wave of creative energy swept through the San Francisco art community after World War II. Challenging accepted modes of painting, Abstract Expressionists produced highly experimental works that jolted the public out of its postwar complacency. Abstract Expressionism resulted from a broad collective impulse rather than the inspiration of a small band of New York artists. Documenting the interchanges between the East and West Coasts, she cites areas of mutual influence and shows the impact of San Francisco on the New York School, including artists such as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt. San Francisco's Beat poets...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Texas - Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Minor Saint
By Barnaby Fitzgerald
Located in Dallas, TX
A professor of painting at Southern Methodist University since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy where he earned a printmaking degree in Urbino. He received a BFA...
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2010s Contemporary Texas - Paintings

Materials

Egg Tempera, Panel

MEXICAN MEXICO STREET SCENE W / CHURCH. REYNALDO MAYA BORN 1911
Located in San Antonio, TX
Reynaldo Maya Born 1911 Texas / Mexico / Europe Artist Medium: Oil Circa 1940s Image Size: 10 x 8 Frame Size: 18 1/2 x 16 1/2 "Mexican Street Scene" with Church Biography Reynaldo Maya Born 1911 Maya, Reynaldo (1911- Mexican Artist’s Paintings...
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1940s Impressionist Texas - Paintings

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Oil

Flowers, Trees VI
By Ryan Cobourn
Located in Dallas, TX
Artwork size (without frame): 30"h x 22"w
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2010s Abstract Texas - Paintings

Materials

Paint, Paper

"BLUEBONNET AND HUISACHE" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY FRAMED 23 X 27
By Pedro Lazcano
Located in San Antonio, TX
Pedro Lazcano (1909-1970) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 16 x 20 Frame Size: 23 x 27 Medium: Oil on Canvas "Bluebonnet and Huisache" Texas Hill Country Pedro Lazcano (1909-1970) I wa...
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1960s Impressionist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil

" SPRING SHADOWS " TEXAS BLUEBONNETS BLUEBONNET G. HARVEY 33 X 39 FRAME SIZE
By G. Harvey
Located in San Antonio, TX
G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 24 x 30 Frame Size: 33 x 39 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dated 1972 "Spring Shadows" B...
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1970s Impressionist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Texas Hill Country Landscape With Cattle" oil painting of wildflowers, cactus
By Don Warren
Located in Austin, TX
Canvas Size: 12 x 16 in. Frame Size: 20.5 x 24.5 in. Signed, lower left: "Don Warren" A serene, classic, and cheerful scene in the Texas Hill Country by Don Warren. The foreground i...
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1970s American Realist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

J.P. Morgan
Located in Plano, TX
A 20th-century American School oil painting on board featuring American banker and financier J.P. Morgan (1837-1913) seated at his desk. Light streams throug...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil

J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan
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"LOST AND FOUND" CATTLE STRAYS IN WEST TEXAS. WESTERN COWBOY COWS. FRAME 30 X 42
Located in San Antonio, TX
Lester Hughes (1938-2021) El Paso Artist Image Size: 24 x 36 Frame Size: 30 x 42 Medium: Oil "Lost and Found" West Texas Cattle STRAYS Biography Lester Hughes (1938-2021) From El Pas...
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1970s Impressionist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil

“Pool Days” Contemporary Blue and Green Toned Tropical Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary naturalistic painting by Texas-based artist Jennifer Lively. The work features a clear, blue pool next to a palm tree. A small white boat can be seen sailing in the back...
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2010s Contemporary Texas - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Surreal Painting of A Mirror in Field
By Anthony V. Martin
Located in Houston, TX
Surreal Anthony Martin landscape painting of a Lonely Mirror in a Field in egg tempura. The bright and airy field contrasts with the dark, bulky mirror to give the painting an uneasy...
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1960s Surrealist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Egg Tempera

Flower Shed
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
The greenhouse became a favorite subject of Donald Vogel's in the 1980's. As Vogel reflected in the 1998 catalogue published for his traveling retrospective exhibition, "The greenhou...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"SUNSET GLOW GUADLUPE MOUNTAINS, TEXAS" EAST OF EL PASO PAINTED CIRCA 1930s
Located in San Antonio, TX
Lewis Teel (1883-1960) El Paso Artist Image Size: 21 x 28 Frame Size: 27 x 34 Medium: Oil on Board Signed Lower Left and on original price tag on verso Circa 1930s "Sunset Glow" Guad...
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1930s Impressionist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil

A Collective Pulse
By Terrell James
Located in Houston, TX
Terrell James A Collective Pulse, 2022 Oil on linen 29 x 42 in (73.7 x 106.7 cm)
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

"BEND IN THE CREEK" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY LIMESTONE BLUFFS RIVER 33 X 45 FRAMED
Located in San Antonio, TX
W. A. Slaughter (1923 - 2003) Dallas / San Antonio Artist Image Size: 24 x 36 Frame Size: 33 x 45 Medium: Oil on Canvas "Bend in the Creek" Texas Hill Country Biography W. A. Slaught...
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1970s Impressionist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Sublime Naturalistic Desert Landscape Painting
By William Hoey
Located in Houston, TX
Sublime desert landscape painting was done in a naturalistic style. The work is signed by the artist in the bottom corner. It is a frame in a...
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20th Century Naturalistic Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Summer's Beckoning" Huge 61 x 86 Framed Texas Prickly Pear Cactus & Mesquite
By Eric Harrison
Located in San Antonio, TX
Eric Harrison (Born 1971) Texas Hill Country Artist Image Size: 48 x 72 Frame Size: 61 x 86 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas "Summer's Beckoning" Bio Eric H...
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2010s Impressionist Texas - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"Blue Bull" Painted by Black Texas Folk Artist Leon Collins deceased 2025
By Leon Collins
Located in San Antonio, TX
Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown, died 2025 Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist Image Size: 24 x 36 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas "Blue Bull" Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown-Died 2025 "The in...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Texas - Paintings

Materials

Oil

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