Exhibition - For Love of the Land: Painting the Texas Landscape

One of the first chroniclers of art in Texas was Abilenian France Battaile Fisk, who wrote in her 1928 publication, A History of Texas Artists and Sculptors, “…our painters of Texas landscape, with its ever changing moods and rapidly developing country are rendering a great service, as with canvas and brush they are faithfully picturing the characteristics of our Lone Star State…”

Landscape Painting in the Texas tradition depicts the scenery of the natural world with views that impact the artist’s eye. In an effort to represent the beauty that meets the eye, the artist tries to capture that fleeting moment in time and space, for all time, thus becoming a co-creator along with the mother nature. Paintings by important Texas artists Frank Reaugh, L. O. Griffith, Julian Onderdonk, Edward Eisenlohr, Charles Taylor Bowling, Otis Dozier, William Lester, Everett Spruce, Porfirio Salinas as well as contemporary landscape painters Lilian Garcia-Roig, and many others will confirm the long tradition of artists’ expressing their love of the land as a primary subject expressed over the decades in a variety of media and styles.