Texas Landscape with Bluebonnets
Artist
Porfirio Salinas
(American, 1910 - 1973)
Datec. 1955
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions25 x 30 1/4 inches (63.5 x 76.8 cm)
Frame: 27 1/2 × 32 5/8 × 2 1/8 inches (69.9 × 82.9 × 5.4 cm)
Frame: 27 1/2 × 32 5/8 × 2 1/8 inches (69.9 × 82.9 × 5.4 cm)
Credit LinePurchase of the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1984
Object number31.218.1
ClassificationsPaintings
DescriptionPainted in Fredericksburg, TexasLabel TextFor Texans, a landscape with bluebonnets says home. Bluebonnet paintings were a specialty of Salinas, who was born in Bastrop and then lived in San Antonio, Texas. His mother was a native of Mexico. His father’s family also had Mexican heritage. Porfirio Salinas, essentially a self-taught artist, learned by observation. He apprenticed with landscape painter Robert Wood. At that time, Salinas developed his career of painting the state flower. This work depicts a scene in Fredericksburg.
ProvenanceArtist. purchased by T. V. Smith [1]; his son Gayle S. Smith, Bethesda, Maryland; purchased August 29, 1984 by the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art
| 1. Gayle S. Smith noted his father "apparently bought" this work from the artist in the 1950s.
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