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Art For Sale
"LAST LIGHT" WESTERN, COWBOY, HORSE, LIGHT, TEXAS HILL COUNTRY
Located in San Antonio, TX
James Robinson (1944-2015) Austin, Dallas, Houston Artist Image Size: 24 x 36 Frame Size: 32 x 44 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas "Last Light" Biography James Robinson (1944-2015) Biograph...
Category

Late 20th Century American Realist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Le Havre, Lively Quay, Oil On Canvas 19th Century
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Le Havre, lively quay. Oil on canvas 19th century. Bears a M. Koekkoek signature at the bottom left. Relining. Old restorations. Light cracking. Small paint losses in the sky. Good g...
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"La Cité - Notre Dame" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression on Canson et Montgolfier wove paper was printed in 1937 in an edition of 500 for the "Paris 1937" portfolio. Printed at the atelier of Jean-...
Category

1930s Art

Materials

Etching

"Procion" serigraph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: serigraph (after the painting). Printed in 1968 and published by the (op)art galerie of Esslingen, Germany for a rare portfolio. Size: 9 1/2 x 7 7/8 inches (240 x 200 mm). No...
Category

1960s Op Art Art

Materials

Screen

Pinocchio
Located in New York, NY
This is a silkscreen and woodcut print created in 2007. It is signed and numbered in graphite from the edition of 118 (plus 18 APs). This print comes directly from the publisher, Lin...
Category

Early 2000s Pop Art Art

Materials

Screen, Woodcut

Signed Keith Haring letter 1984 (Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi Gallery 1984)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi Gallery 1984: A RARE signed Keith Haring letter produced in 1984 by Haring's long-time gallerist, Tony Shafrazi in reference to Keith Haring's wood panel s...
Category

1980s Pop Art Art

Materials

Ink, Paper

"Misty Bayou" HAZE. ONE OF HIS BEST Dated 1917 Alexander Drysdale (1870-1934)
By Alexander John Drysdale
Located in San Antonio, TX
Alexander John Drysdale (1870-1934) New Orleans Louisiana / New York Artist Size: 20 x 30 Frame: 26 x 36 Medium: Oil Wash? Watercolor? Dated: 1917 "Misty Bayou" Housed in the original magnificent frame. Alexander John Drysdale (1870-1934) New Orleans Louisiana / New York Artist Alexander John (A.J.) Drysdale was an early 20th century Louisiana artist who specialized in landscapes using the technique of oil wash, that gave his works a characteristic of a hazy look. Drysdale made use of this technique by diluting the oil paint with kerosene and applying it with cotton balls. Alexander John Drysdale, born in Marietta, Georgia on March 2, 1870, came to New Orleans at the age of fifteen with his parents. His father, Reverend Alexander J. Drysdale, became the rector of Christ Church Cathedral. Alex received private tutoring from a Professor Mehado and art lessons from Ida Hackell at the Southern Art Union. Later in New Orleans (1887) he studied art under Paul Poincy (1833-1909). The exact date of Drysdale's arrival in New York is unknown, but he enrolled in the Art Students League where he received instruction from Charles C. Curran and Frank Vincent DuMond. Apparently, he remained in New York for about five years and did not go to Europe for further study. After some time, Drysdale began specializing in landscapes, executed in a tonalist manner. Back in New Orleans, Drysdale was inspired by local subjects, especially swamp or bayou areas and other desolate wetlands. Over a period of many years Drysdale's landscapes evolved to a unique stylistic maturity. In 1909 he received a gold medal from the New Orleans Art Association. It is easy to see the influence of two artists that he admired: Corot and Inness. Working equally well in oil and watercolor (he also did scenes in charcoal), Drysdale usually divided his scene into halves or thirds, typically, a foreground consisting of tall swamp grasses achieved with broad vertical strokes; a middle ground consisting of a backdrop row of trees at the horizon line executed with staccato, jabbing strokes resulting in textural contrast; and a background devoted totally to a tonalist-like moisture-laden sky often hazy with no clouds or only a slight indication of them. This formulaic compositional format rendered with an economy of technique resulted in imagery with repetitious forms and shapes diffused in a nebulous space. In this regard, Drysdale's works are impressionistic; he also tended to use the violets and blues of the impressionist palette. Yet he lacked a specific interest in color and light. Although his expression of the Louisiana scenery is very personal, even mystical, the artist appears to have been very limited in subject matter. One of his last works was a mural for the Shushan (New York) Airport administration building, and shortly before his death he was employed as an artist by the Civil Works Administration. Drysdale was a member of the Arts and Crafts Club of New Orleans, and his work was in the permanent collection of the Delgado Museum for many years. The artist worked at his studio at 320 Exchange Place in the picturesque Vieux Carré until his death at the age of sixty-three. Stewart (in Painting in the South, 1983), describes how Drysdale was a shrewd businessman. He would solicit new homeowners who might need a canvas to decorate a wall, or a cotton broker who recently made the headlines. Drysdale died in New Orleans, on February 9, 1934. Sources: Louisiana Artists from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. James W. Nelson. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University, 1968; Wiesendanger, Martin and Margaret Wiesendanger, Nineteenth Century Louisiana Painters and Paintings from the Collection of W. E. Groves. New Orleans: W. E. Groves Gallery, 1971, pp. 44-45; Painting in the South: 1584-1980, Exh. cat. Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum, 1983, pp. 106-107, 114, 276; Chambers, Bruce W., Art and Artists of the South: The Robert P. Coggins Collection of American Paintings. Exh. cat. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 1984, p. 88; Zellman, Michael David, 300 Years of American Art. Seacacus, NJ: Wellfleet Press, 1987, p. 634; Gerdts, William H., Art across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting, 1710-1920. New York: Abbeville Press, 1990, vol. 2, pp. 110-111. Submitted by Richard H. Love and Michael Preston Worley, Ph.D. Biography from The Johnson Collection ALEXANDER JOHN DRYSDALE (1870–1934) Born in Marietta, Georgia, Alexander John Drysdale was the only son of an ordained Episcopal priest whose ministry required frequent moves to parishes in Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee. In 1883, he accepted the call to become dean of Christ Church Cathedral, New Orleans, and was later elected a bishop. Alexander, thirteen years old when the family settled in New Orleans, began his art studies under the instruction of Ida C. Haskell, a California-born artist who was on the faculty of the recently established Southern Art Union. The local academy had been founded by several leading artists, including Andres Molinary, William Henry Buck...
Category

1910s Impressionist Art

Materials

Mixed Media

EDUARDO ARROYO Roland Garros French Open, 1981 - HAND SIGNED
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 29.5 x 22.5 inches ( 74.93 x 57.15 cm ) Image Size: 29.5 x 22.5 inches ( 74.93 x 57.15 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: Limited edition print desig...
Category

1980s Contemporary Art

Materials

Offset

Easy Rider Bike Scene - Peter Tunney Signed
Located in Austin, TX
Hand-pulled silkscreen with hand coloring on museum board. Signed by the artist Peter Tunney. About the artist: Peter Tunney (b.1961) is a legitimate force of nature with boundles...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Digital

Le Lion Amoureux - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1952
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed and numbered in pencil. On wide margins. Edition of 74/100. Very good condition. From the series "Les Fables de La Fontaine", p...
Category

1950s Surrealist Art

Materials

Etching

Harry in good mood
Located in London, GB
artist: Anastasia Kurakina watercolor tempera on paper one of a kind hand signed BIO In search of the human essence As an artist, Anastasia Kurakina (lives and works in London) nu...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Bundle- 4 Assorted Andy Warhol Rare & Unsigned Serigraphs
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an assortment of 4 Serigraphs by Andy Warhol, each piece described as follows: Andy Warhol - Halston Advertising Campaign Poster - 1982 Serigraph 22.75" x 29.5" Unsigned Se...
Category

1980s Pop Art Art

Materials

Screen

Still life of sunflowers oil on canvas painting russian artist flowers
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Natalia Pankova (1965) - Sunflowers - Oil on canvas Oil measurements 50x50 cm. Frameless. Natalia Yuryevna Pankova (Russian: Наталия Юрьевна Панкова, Gorky, June 28, 1965) is a Ru...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mocha and Dark Knight Diptych, Original painting, Abstract, Textural 3D art
Located in Deddington, GB
Diptych of abstract paintings by Rajan Seth comprising of Mocha and Dark Knight. These are two original paitings, the width of the two paintings side by side is 200cm and the height...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

Frank Sinatra - Peter Tunney Signed
Located in Austin, TX
Hand-pulled silkscreen with hand coloring on museum board. Signed by artist Peter Tunney. About the Artist: Peter Tunney (b.1961) is a legitimate force of nature with boundless cr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Digital

Abba - cube, 120x120cm, Oil, Canvas, sand
Located in Yerevan, AM
Abba - cube, 120x120сm, Oil, Canvas, sand
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Magic horse racing, 100x200cm, Oil, Canvas, Sand
Located in Yerevan, AM
Magic horse racing, 100x200cm, Oil, Canvas, Sand
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Judith Holding Holofernes' Head - Oil Painting - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Judith Holding Holofernes' Head is an old master artwork realized by an unknown Artist of 17th century. Oil on canvas. The painting depicts Judith Holding the head of Holofernes.
Category

17th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paint, Oil

Original Vintage Sport Poster Summer Olympic Games Berlin 1936 Franz Wurbel
By Franz Würbel
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Summer Olympic Games poster for the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin from 1-16 August published by the German Railways Head Office for Tourist Traffic and the Propa...
Category

1930s Art

Materials

Paper

Original Vintage Soviet Travel Poster Georgian Military Highway Intourist USSR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet travel poster for the Georgian Military Highway issued by the state tourism agency Intourist featuring great Art Deco artwork by Alexander Zhitomirsky (1907-1...
Category

1930s Art Deco Art

Materials

Paper

Maternité, Modern Lithograph by Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Staring at each other lovingly, the mother and child in this print by Pablo Picasso are representative of the maternal bond between individuals in this relationship. Rendered in soft...
Category

Late 20th Century Cubist Art

Materials

Lithograph

INVADER - RUBIK COUNTRY LIFE Rubikcubism Pop Art Mosaic Street Art French
Located in Madrid, Madrid
INVADER - RUBIK COUNTRY LIFE Date of creation: 2023 Medium: Diasec-mounted Giclée on aluminium composite panel Edition: 431 Size: 100 x 100 cm Condition: Brand new, in mint condition...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Panel, Giclée

Sophia Loren in "Houseboat" - Peter Tunney Signed
Located in Austin, TX
Hand-pulled silkscreen with hand coloring on museum board. Signed by artist Peter Tunney. About the Artist: Peter Tunney (b.1961) is a legitimate force of nature with boundless cr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Digital

Military Camp Scene and Battle. Pietro Graziani (XVII/XVIII century), entourage
Located in Firenze, IT
Military Camp Scene and Battle. Pietro Graziani (XVII/XVIII century), entourage. A pair ( two) of small paintings. Antique XIX century frames in gilt wood.  In good condition. Oi...
Category

Early 18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Femme dans un Fauteuil, Cubist Lithograph by Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting “Femme dans un Fauteuil”, which recently sold at auction for $10 million USD. The original pai...
Category

Late 20th Century Cubist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Fine Italian Old Master Oil Painting c. 1700's The Madonna Christ Child St. John
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Madonna, Christ Child and St. John Italian Old Master, circa 1700's period oil painting on canvas, unframed Canvas: 28.5 x 24 inches conditon: overall very good for its age, a fe...
Category

Early 18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Marlon Brando on Bike - Peter Tunney Signed
Located in Austin, TX
Hand-pulled silkscreen with hand coloring on museum board. Signed by artist Peter Tunney. About the Artist: Peter Tunney (b.1961) is a legitimate force of nature with boundless cr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Digital

Tulip Fields 05 by Bernhard Lang - small size
Located in Paris, FR
Aerial Views, Tulip Fields 05 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. Available dimensions and editions: - 60 x 75 cm: edition of 10 - 96 x 120 ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print

N106, 100cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
My goal is to make the images of classical art sound in a new way in modern art. In my works I refer to the cultural heritage of the past, I process and comprehend the masterpieces o...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Venus" by Dave Seeley, Nude Female with Swimming Fish
Located in Denver, CO
Dave Seeley's "Venus" (2023) is a captivating oil on canvas on panel original that showcases the artist's exceptional skill in depicting the female form amidst a surreal, underwater ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Board, Canvas

"Bluebonnet Creek" Texas Hill Country 1957 39 x 49 Framed!!!
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...
Category

1950s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

THE LANTERN Hand Signed Lithograph, Collage Portrait, African American Heritage
Located in Union City, NJ
THE LANTERN is an original, handmade limited edition lithograph printed from hand drawn lithography plates in 13 colors using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Somerse...
Category

1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

XVIIcentury Male Portrait With A Spanish Beard And Mustache. North Italian
Located in Firenze, IT
The portrait of a man with a Spanish-style beard and mustache is a work that captures the essence of the North Italian pictorial school of the 17th century. This portrait, probably ...
Category

18th Century and Earlier Italian School Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Church Door Hornitos
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
From the 50th Anniversary Portfolio (1902 - 1952). Printed circa early 1950s by Brett Weston under Edward's supervision. 100.
Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Salvador Dali's "The Voice of My Beloved", one of 12 from "Songs of Solomon"
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Salvador Dali created a series of etchings in the late 1970's entitled the "Song of Songs of Solomon" demonstrating his interest in religious themes & stories. This limited edition l...
Category

1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Lazy Days Blues" TEXAS BLUEBONNETS, NICE LARGER SIZE LANDSCAPE CIRCA 1950
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 25 x 30 Frame Size: 34 x 39 Medium: Oil on Canvas Circa 1950 "Lazy Day Blues" Texas Bluebonnet 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 is 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...
Category

1950s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Andrada Trapnell's 'Shadows' Original Pair of Black Horses Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Andrada Trapnell's "Shadows" is a captivating original artwork created in 2023. This piece measures 30 x 40 inches and features a masterful blend of oil on board. The painting depict...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Henry Woolway, It Was Always Part Of The Picture, 2021
Located in Manchester, GB
Henry Woolway, It Was Always Part Of The Picture, 2021 Acrylic on Canvas 122 x 92 cm (48 x 36.22 in) Artwork is set in a stained red wood frame with a 5mm shadow gap Hand-signed ...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Hyperreal Blue Glass Balloon Sculpture
Located in East Quogue, NY
Blue hyperreal glass water balloon sculpture by Dylan Martinez. These hyperrealistic water balloons are made of solid sculpted glass sandblasted and acid-etched to resemble real wa...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Glass, Blown Glass

"Le Parc Monceau" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression on Canson et Montgolfier wove paper was printed in 1937 in an edition of 500 for the "Paris 1937" portfolio. Printed at the atelier of Jean-...
Category

1930s Art

Materials

Etching

« Hylas and the Nymphs», 120x120 cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
My goal is to make the images of classical art sound in a new way in modern art. In my works I refer to the cultural heritage of the past, I process and comprehend the masterpieces o...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Lucille Ball on Silk - Peter Tunney Signed
Located in Austin, TX
Hand-pulled silkscreen with hand coloring on museum board. Signed by artist Peter Tunney. About the Artist: Peter Tunney (b.1961) is a legitimate force of nature with boundless cr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Digital

Lawrence of Arabia - Peter Tunney Signed
Located in Austin, TX
Hand-pulled silkscreen with hand coloring on museum board. Signed by artist Peter Tunney. About the Artist: Peter Tunney (b.1961) is a legitimate force of nature with boundless cr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Digital

Stainless Steel Bear Family of 3 Sculpture Minimalistic Animal
Located in Valencia, ES
Made in the Spain, 2024. A simple form builds a complex one. In our approach, we go from the opposite, representing complex things in simple forms. So, our bear consists of only 9 si...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Steel, Stainless Steel

FUTURE RELIC 02 Limited Sculpture Modern Art Design 35mm Camera Canon Concept
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Daniel Arsham - FUTURE RELIC 02 - CANON AE1 Date of creation: 2014 Medium: Plaster and crushed glass Edition number: 074/450 Size: 14.6 × 15.9 × 9.5 cm Condition: In mint conditions...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Glass, Plaster

"Le Pont-Neuf" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression on Canson et Montgolfier wove paper was printed in 1937 in an edition of 500 for the "Paris 1937" portfolio. Printed at the atelier of Jean-...
Category

1930s Art

Materials

Etching

Andrada Trapnell's 'Reaching For the Sun' Original Monkey Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Andrada Trapnell's "Reaching for the Sun" is a captivating original artwork created in 2023. This piece measures 30 x 40 inches and features a masterful blend of oil on board. The pa...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Calvados : River in the forest - Original oil painting, Handsigned
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Emile PISSARRO (1884-1972) Calvados : River in the forest Original oil on panel Handsigned on bottom On panel 46 x 55 cm (c. 18 x 22 in) In a golden wood frame size 60 x 67 cm ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Animated Scene In The Kitchen, Oil On Parquet Panel, 18th Century Or Before
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Lively scene in the kitchen. Northern School. Oil on parquet panel, 18th century or earlier. Old restoration of the panel. Painting in good general condition. 19th century frame in w...
Category

18th Century Dutch School Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

La Femme Avec le Béret Rouge, Cubist Lithograph by Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wearing a brightly-colored beret, the woman in this Pablo Picasso print is rendered in hues of blue and teal. Looking to the side, the woman is portrayed from a multitude of angles t...
Category

Late 20th Century Cubist Art

Materials

Lithograph

The Inevitable Desire of Growth by Vero Rivera
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"The Inevitable Desire of Growth" (2023) by street artist and muralist Vero Rivera Delicate, mandala-like abstract geometric pattern in black and metallic gold. Nonobjective hard ed...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Henry Woolway, Moved In Motion, 2021
Located in Manchester, GB
Henry Woolway, Moved In Motion, 2021 Acrylic on Canvas 122 x 92 cm (48 x 36.2 in) Artwork is set in a stained red wood frame with a 5mm shadow gap Hand-signed by the artist Abst...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

FELIPE PANTONE SUBTRACTIVE VARIABILITY COMPACT 2 Kinetic Sculpture Op Art Design
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Felipe Pantone - SUBTRACTIVE VARIABILITY COMPACT 2 Date of creation: 2022 Medium: PMMA, UV inks Edition: 200 Size: 47 x 45 x 5 cm Condition: In mint conditions, brand new inside its ...
Category

2010s Kinetic Art

Materials

Plexiglass, Ink

Damien Hirst, The Set of 6 Foundation Cartier Cerisiers En Fleurs Cherry, 2021
Located in Manchester, GB
Damien Hirst, The Set of 6 Foundation Cartier Cerisiers En Fleurs Cherry, 2021 Offset lithograph 80 x 60 cm (31.5 x 23.62 in)
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Lawrence of Arabia - Peter Tunney Signed
Located in Austin, TX
Hand-pulled silkscreen with hand coloring on museum board. Signed by artist Peter Tunney. About the Artist: Peter Tunney (b.1961) is a legitimate force of nature with boundless cr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Digital

The Lizard with Golden Feathers
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1971 Edition : 24/50 Publisher : Broder (Paris) Printer : Mourlot (Paris) Catalog : [Maeght 815] 35.50 cm. x 50.00 cm. 13.98 in. x 19.69 in. (paper) 33.00 cm. x 48.00 cm...
Category

1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

M
Located in London, GB
Anastasia Kurakina's works on paper are the Vatican Museums collection since 2017 artist: Anastasia kurakina original print on paper hand signed BIO In search of the human esse...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Color, Digital

"Corner Street No. 2" by Hiroshi Sato, Original Painting, Abstract Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
Hiroshi Sato's "Corner Street No. 2" (2024) is an original oil on canvas artwork, measuring 36 x 28 inches. "Corner Street #2" is sold unframed but is ready to hang. This unique art...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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