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Period: 1950s
Medium: Oil
Blueprints into Reality - Building Construction Rebar Concrete Forms
Located in Miami, FL
Blueprints into Reality - Full-page ad for United Engineers that ran in Fortune Magazine, March 1958, and other business magazines. As Fred Taraba stated, this image is symbolic of optimism and potential.
Work includes the original issue of Fortune Magazine with the ad in which United Engineers mentions Stanley Meltzoff.
"Here Stanley Meltzoff dramatizes with tools and massive concrete forms...
Category
1950s Abstract Geometric Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Holy Family in Barn
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1950s Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Civil Rights, Racial Justice Little Rock
Located in Miami, FL
"Civil Rights." Evergood's early commentary on racial issues in the 1950s depicts four black men gagged, roped and hanging from a tree. In the background, imprisoned blacks look on through a barbed-wire fence. Whites watch in horror but do nothing to help. Meanwhile, a two-legged and three-headed serpent who symbolizes evil - wraps himself around the tree that physically and symbolically separates the races. This is an important work in the history of American art. It may be one of the very earliest examples of a major American painter doing a major work that challenges racial segregation and injustice at a time when no one else would. The title of the work is inspired by a Historic Supreme Court decision on racial segregation. The Little Rock...
Category
1950s American Realist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Beautiful European Landscape/Mountainscape by artist European Artist E. Feith
Located in Chicago, IL
A beautiful, large romantic landscape/mountainscape by European artist E. Feith in green tones. The painting has a silver/champagne-toned frame.
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Serene Lake German Impressionist Landscape
By Karl Lechner
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Serene Lake German Impressionist Landscape by Karl Max Lechner
Gorgeous mid-century plein air oil painting of a lake in a sprawling ...
Category
1950s Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard, Canvas
Mid Century Modern Boats and Bridge, Abstracted Maritime Landscape Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern Boats and Bridge, Abstracted Maritime Landscape Painting
Wonderful mid-century modern abstracted maritime seascape by listed San...
Category
1950s Abstract Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Mid Century Figurative Seascape with Sailboats
By Henryk Dzienczarski
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-century figurative seascape with boats by Henryk Dzienczarski, (Poland, b-1917). Signed "H. Dzienczarski" lower right. Displayed in a wood fra...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Vintage Montmartre Paris Impressionist Oil Landscape 1950's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3253a Oil on canvas od the streets of Paris set in a vintage wood frame
Image size 9.5x8"
Category
1950s Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Signed Abstract Expressionist Female Modern Sunset Oil Painting
By Gloria Banning
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract expressionist signed oil painting by Gloria Banning (1924-2007). Oil on canvas, circa 1954. Signed. Titled, "Sunset Vignette" on verso. Display...
Category
1950s Abstract Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Signed Interior Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Very finely painted interior scene.
Category
1950s Modern Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Modern Impasto Oil Painting - Venice St. Mark's Basilica at Sunset
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern Impasto Oil Painting -- Venice at Sunset with St. Mark's Basilica
Wonderful and evocative modern painting of Venice with gondolas and St. Marks Basilica by postw...
Category
1950s Modern Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen, Stretcher Bars
'Children on the Beach, Fisher Island USA' Oil painting on board
By Paul Maze
Located in St. Albans, GB
Paul Lucien Maze
Oil on Board
6.5 x 23.5" (16.25 x 58.75cm)
12.5 x 29.5 (31.25 x 73.75cm)
Provenance: Exhibited Brown and Derby , Cork Street
21 May 1887 – 17 September 1979
Paul L...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Country Landscape
By Roger Bertin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A beautiful Fauvist French country landscape by Roger Bertin. Born in Rue Gabrielle in Montmartre, Paris in 1915, and lived in the same house all his life. His godfather was the poet...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Blue Trees, Oil on Canvas Painting by Claude Richard Mazier
Located in Atlanta, GA
This pretty oil on canvas modernist composition, typical of the 1950s, features a house in a village in the countryside with imaginary blue trees, designed by Claude Richard Mazier (...
Category
1950s Modern Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Flying South”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of Canadian geese flying south under a twilight sky. Beautiful
light reflection in the water below Signed lower right and attributed to Alice Roge...
Category
1950s Academic Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Neve in Val Ceresio" Mid Century Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting in Snow
Located in New York, NY
This stunning piece of art titled "Neve in Val Ceresio" is a captivating original work by renowned Italian artist Carlo Aimetti. Aimetti was known for his captivating scenes portrayi...
Category
1950s Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Oil Painting by Andre Eugene Louis Chochon "Bridge over the Seine"
Located in Mere, GB
Oil Painting by Andre Eugene Louis Chochon "Bridge over the Seine" 1910 -2005 Studied Beaux Arts in Reines then exhibited at the society des Artistes. Francois from 1933, Grand Prix ...
Category
1950s Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Dutch Windmill Original Oil in French Impressionist Style
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Dutch Windmill Original in French Impressionist Style
Colorful French impressionist style oil painting by F. Simont (Dutch 19th/20th Century), circa 1950. Boat anchored ...
Category
1950s Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Stretcher Bars, Oil
Mid Century Modern Abstracted Landscape, Big Sur Coast Cliffs
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern Abstracted Landscape, Big Sur Coast Cliffs
Colorful mid-century landscape of jagged cliffs along the dramatic Big Sur coastline by an unknown artist. Unsigned. P...
Category
1950s American Modern Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
“River Rapids, Venezuela”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original river rapids landscape by the Venezuelan artist, Tomas L. Golding.
Oil on canvas laid down on board. Signed lower left by the artist Circa 1955. Condi...
Category
1950s Post-Modern Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Mid Century Autumn Trees Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid mid century landscape of autumn trees blurring into colorful abstraction by Helen Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Presented in a giltwood frame. Image size: 10" H X 8" W.
G...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Vintage Large Signed Abstract Expressionist Framed Modern Indian Space Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive early abstract painting by Peter Busa (1914 - 1985). Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. Housed in a period modernist frame.
Category
1950s Cubist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Palm Springs Desert Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Palm Springs Desert Landscape
Wonderful mid century bright and vibrant landscape of a classic Palm Springs desert scene by K. Neidlinger (American 20th Century), circa 1...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paysage a Ceret - Pyrennes - Expressionist Landscape Oil by Pinchus Kremegne
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed expressionist landscape oil on canvas circa 1950 by Lithuanian-French painter Pinchus Kremegne. This stunning and vibrantly coloured piece trees in Ceret in the Pyrenees in th...
Category
1950s Expressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Monumental Atmospheric Summer Beach Sunset Framed Modern Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive mid 20th century summer beach scene oil painting. Framed in a modernist white wood frame. Great color and truly an eye grabbing piece in person. Subtle and superb!...
Category
1950s Modern Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Avon River - Christ Church, New Zealand" - Mid Century Figurative Landscape
By Leon Worley
Located in Soquel, CA
"Avon River", a beautiful mid century figurative landscape of Christ Church, New Zealand by Leon Worley (American, 1909-2003). Presented in a wooden frame. Signed "Leon Worley" lower...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Chemin de Placy by Paulémile Pissarro - Snow, oil painting
Located in London, GB
Chemin de Placy by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Oil on canvas
65 x 54 cm (25 ⁵/₈ x 21 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower right, Paulémile. Pissarro.
Signed and titled on the reverse
Executed...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Les Bords de l’Orne au Soleil Couchant by Paulémile Pissarro -Landscape painting
Located in London, GB
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Les Bords de l’Orne au Soleil Couchant by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Oil on canvas
54 x 65 cm (21 ¹/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inch...
Category
1950s Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed French Impressionist Paris Street Scene Framed Summer Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid 20th century French impressionist landscape. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1950s Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
" on vacation" Oil cm. 36 x 29 , 1959
Located in Torino, IT
Painter, vacation, summer, impressionism, picnic, 1950s
Russia,Green
Category
1950s Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Landscape with characters spanish original oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joaquim Marsillach i Codony (1905-1986) - Landscape with characters
Oil on canvas
Oil measures 46x55 cm.
Frame measures 69x78 cm.
Marsillach Codony, Joaquim. Olot (Gerona), 22.V.190...
Category
1950s Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Old Minisink Mill', Marshalls Creek, Silver Lake, PA, Doylestown Art League
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'George L. Beidler' (American, 1917-1981) and dated 1956. Additionally signed, verso, on stretcher bar and titled on artist label, 'Old Minisink Mill, Marshall's Creek, Pennsylvania' with artist address.
Known also as Zimmerman's Mill and Kerr's Mill, this historic mill is located in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. Built in 1849 by Peter Zimmerman...
Category
1950s Realist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique French Impressionist Paris Street Scene Framed Flower Window Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive French impressionist street scene thru a flower bouquet and window. Very nicely painted with great color and thick impasto. Housed in a giltwood impressionist frame...
Category
1950s Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Painting by Victor William Ellis "A Thames Barge, Evening"
Located in Mere, GB
Oil Painting by Victor William Ellis "A Thames Barge, Evening" Victor William Ellis DSM, RSMA 1921 -1984 . Marine painter of all types of ships past and present. mainly east coast a...
Category
1950s Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Spring Sunset, Original Oil Painting from 1952
Located in Stockholm, SE
This exquisite painting by the artist Otto Lindberg (1880-1955) is a mesmerizing depiction of a spring sunset. Crafted in 1952, this piece stands as one of Lindberg's final paintings...
Category
1950s Romantic Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orbs, Spiritual and Abstract Landscape
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Orbs" is a 38 x 50 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is estate stamped 202141 on verso. The painting has been...
Category
1950s American Modern Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Exhibited Abstract Expressionist Framed Modernist Street Scene Signed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract expressionist oil painting by Erwin Wending (1914 - 1993). Great color and composition. Framed. Signed. Exhibition and museum labels verso.
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Framed American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Fauvist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
1950s Abstract Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Rue Royale, Paris', Latin American Modernist, Rio MOMA, Butler Inst. NAD, CAFA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Agostinelli' for Mario Agostinelli (Peruvian-American, 1915-2000) and dated 1956; additionally titled, lower left, 'Rue Royale, Paris'.
Displayed in a substantia...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Moonlit Landscape, signed "Douvos"
Located in New Orleans, LA
Abstract Moonlit Landscape, signed and dated "Douvos"
Category
1950s Abstract Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Seascape and Figural Original oil painting on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
Seascape Original oil painting on Linen 1956
Solitary figure on wharf by California artist Robert Watson, painted 1956 (1923 - 2004)The following, is from Tony Watson, son of the ar...
Category
1950s Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Vintage Monumental Pop Art Architectural Cityscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive mid 20th century abstract cityscape painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
Category
1950s Modern Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Winter Landscape 1951 Vintage Oil Painting by Impressionist Master
Located in Stockholm, SE
Peter Kurbatov (1907 – 1985), was a talented painter, graphic artist and writer. He lived a truly eventful life full of creative exploration. Despite the fact that this landscape was...
Category
1950s Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Cardboard
Avant Printemps au Marais - Impressionist Riverscape Oil by Alexandre Jacob
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1950 by popular French impressionist painter Alexandre Louis Jacob. The piece depicts horses and their carts being led across small stone bridges...
Category
1950s Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique American School Signed Framed Mid Century Modern Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 48L x 36H.
Category
1950s Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Cubist Framed Mid Century Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract cubist oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed.
Category
1950s Cubist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Soleil de Novembre - Impressionist Riverscape Oil by Alexandre Jacob
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on board landscape circa 1950 by popular French impressionist painter Alexandre Louis Jacob. The piece depicts a view of a marsh water mill. The yellow glow of the low Nov...
Category
1950s Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Japanese Landscape Painting on Gilt Wood Panel
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4013 Hand painted Japanese wood panel on gold leaf panel
Category
1950s Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Late Sun" - Carmel by the Sea California Original Oil French Impressionism
Located in Soquel, CA
"Late Sun" - Carmel by the Sea California Original Oil French Impressionism
Thick impasto and textured oil on linen circa 1962 by California artist Harry B. Lachman (American, 1886 ...
Category
1950s Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
The Garden Shed - Mid 20th Century Modern British Figurative Landscape Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful mid 20th century English oil on canvas depicting a figure in a garden with a ramshackle shed. Very good quality and unusual painting. Signed with a monogram and dated 195...
Category
1950s Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Provence landscape by Edouard Arthur, Oil on canvas 82x66 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas sold with frame
Total size with frame 90x74 cm
Edouard ARTHUR is an artist born in 1917 and died in 2002. His works have been sold at public auction 12 times, mainly ...
Category
1950s Cubist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mill in the marsh, Original Oil on Canvas, Signed, French Expressionist
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame
Claude Grosperrin's artwork is a vivid exploration of texture and abstraction, capturing the essence of a rustic landscape with a palpable sense of ene...
Category
1950s Expressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Quai des bouquinistes- Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil - Jules Rene Herve
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in cityscape oil on original canvas circa 1950 by French impressionist painter Jules Rene Herve. The piece depicts a view of a bookseller's stall beside the River Seine in Paris, France, with blossom trees overhead.
Signature:
Signed lower left & again verso
Dimensions:
Framed: 21"x24"
Unframed: 13"x16"
Provenance:
The Dominion Gallery - Montreal - Canada
Jules Rene Hervé began his formal art studies in an evening school in Langres, France. Hervé was trained at the Ecole nationale supérieure d’arts decoratifs of Paris, and studied with Fernand Cormon and Jules Adler...
Category
1950s Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fall in the California Foothills Original Oil Painting 1950s
Located in Soquel, CA
Fall in the California Foothills Original Oil Painting 1950s
Well executed California Oil painting of the Lower Foothills near Santa Cruz, Californ...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Oil Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"PRICKLY PEAR PATH " TEXAS HILL COUNTRY CACTUS Frame Size: 21 x 25
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas
(1910-1973)
San Antonio Artist
Image Size: 12 x 16
Frame Size: 21 x 25
Medium: Oil
Dated 1958
"Prickly Pear Path" 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. While
a few of his early works have a soft, tonalist quality, with subtle
gradations of sunset colors, most were painted in a style that fits
well within the currents of the late American Impressionist style, with
solid drawing and a warm, chromatic palette. Like Robert Wood's works
of the 1930s, the paintings Salinas produced as a young man were
usually well composed and detailed views of the spring wildflowers in
full bloom in the Texas countryside. In contrast to Wood's work,
however, early Salinas compositions were usually pure landscapes
without the pioneer farms or dilapidated fences that Wood often used to
add visual interest to his wildflower scenes, and he also painted
scenes of San Antonio itself as his mentor Jose Arpa had done. To
residents of the Hill Country, Salinas was especially adept at
accurately capturing the palette of the region and its unique
atmosphere.
In 1939 Salinas began working with Dewey Bradford
(1896-1985), one of the great characters of Texas art. Bradford was a
second-generation dealer whose family operated the Bradford Paint
Company in Austin, where they sold art supplies, framed artwork,
restored paintings and exhibited paintings by Texas artists. Salinas
was struggling when he met Bradford, but the older man took the young
artist under his wing and began to sell his work reliably, even though
the prices that people would pay for a painting were still low due to
the lingering effects of the Great Depression. Bradford was a born
salesman with a gift for storytelling, and truth be told, a bit of
embroidery. The relationship between Bradford and Salinas was often
rocky, but it was to last the rest of the artist's life and give him a
modest sense of loyalty and security, things which are all too rare in
the art world. While Bradford could be critical of his work, Salinas
knew that he had a dealer who encouraged him, believed in him and was
not shy about singing his praises to anyone who entered Bradford's
store on Guadalupe Street.
During the early years of World
War II Salinas met a pretty Mexican woman from Guadalajara named Maria
Bonillas, who was working as a secretary for the Mexican National
Railways office in San Antonio. While he was walking downtown with a
painting of a bullfighter under his arm, he started a conversation with
the young woman, and things progressed rapidly. The couple were married
on February 15, 1942 and settled into life in bi-lingual San Antonio
and they eventually purchased a tidy stone home on Buena Vista street
that had a detached studio in back. By the time the United States
entered World War II, Salinas was starting to make a decent living
selling his art and beginning to garner recognition across Texas.
However, in 1943, like millions of other young men, he was drafted into
the service of his country. Fortunately, as an older Army draftee with
special talents, after his training he was assigned to Fort Sam
Houston, right in San Antonio, allowing him to remain at home while
still completing his obligation to "Uncle Sam." Because of his artistic
abilities, Salinas was asked to do paintings for the Army as well as a
mural for the Officer's Club, which has been re-discovered in recent
years. In his spare time he kept working on landscapes and when the war
ended in 1945, he was not faced with the same rocky transition from
military to civilian life as many veterans. That same year, Salinas
became a father as he and Maria celebrated the birth of his only child,
Christina Maria Salinas.
Like most landscape artists of the
era, Salinas was an avid Plein-air painter, and he took his easel and
paint box with him on trips throughout Texas and into Mexico. He and
his wife traveled deep into her native country, where the artist
painted the majestic volcanic peaks of Iztaccihuatl (known as the
"Sleeping Woman" because of its unique shape) and Popocatepetl (called
the "smoking mountain" because the volcano is still active), south of
Mexico City. Salinas also painted studies of rustic villages and their
residents. While his most popular paintings were always the scenes of
the Texas Bluebonnets and other wildflowers that bloom all over the
Hill Country in the spring, he also painted scenes of the twisted Texas
oak trees of central Texas, the more arid landscapes of the Texas
panhandle and West Texas, and the historic Texas missions; he even sold
rapidly executed scenes of bullfights and cockfights for
Mexican-American collectors.
By the late 1940s, the American
economy was finally growing again and wealthier Texans began to collect
Salinas paintings, purchasing them from galleries in San Antonio and
Dallas and at Dewey Bradford's County Store Gallery in Austin. Salinas
also sold work to the Atlanta dealer Dr. Carlton Palmer, who
represented Robert W. Wood for many years. In 1948 Palmer sold two
large Salinas paintings to the Citizen National Bank in Abilene, Texas.
Because Austin was the state capitol, Bradford counted many of the
state's elite among his patrons, and due to his interest in history and
literature, he played a large role in the cultural history of central
Texas. Bradford introduced a number of the major Texas political
figures to Salinas' work, including Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973),
who was then in the House of Representatives and on his way to winning
a controversial election that vaulted him in the United States Senate.
Johnson became an enthusiastic collector, as did his political mentor,
the legendary House Speaker Sam Rayburn (1882-1961). Johnson decorated
his Washington offices with Salinas paintings and he brought a number
of them home to his vast LBJ Ranch, near Johnson City, Texas. In spite
of his important patrons, Salinas went through a fallow and difficult
period in the late 1950s. He had a volatile temperament, which made
relationships difficult, and it took great patience for his wife to
help him manage his career.
As Salinas entered middle age his
work began to sell steadily, but except for tourists who purchased his
paintings in San Antonio, he was known primarily only to Texas art
collectors. All that changed in 1961 with the election of John F.
Kennedy (1917-1963) to the Presidency of the United States and his
running mate Lyndon Johnson to the Vice Presidency. Johnson was an
expansive, larger-than-life character and his status as a long, tall
Texan in a cowboy hat was a large part of his imposing political image.
During his storied career in the House of Representatives and the
United States Senate, Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson (1912-2007) spent
their time in Washington in a modest house on the edge of Rock Creek
Park, but this home would not do for a Vice President. So, in 1961, the
Johnsons purchased a French chateau-styled home in the Spring Valley
section of the Capitol. Obtained from the famed socialite and
ambassador Perle Mesta (1889-1975), the house came with a fine
collection of French furniture and tapestries, and the designer
Genevieve Hendricks was hired to meld the French look with objects from
the Johnsons' overseas travels and paintings of the flora and fauna of
their native Texas. Featured prominently in the foyer were the
paintings of Porfirio Salinas. Because of the Johnsons' patronage, his
work was mentioned in Time Magazine and other national publications.
Lady Bird Johnson loved her landscapes of the Texas Hill Country and
told reporters that, "I want to see them when ever I open the door, to
remind me where I come from."
After President Kennedy's death
thrust Lyndon Johnson into the Presidency, he brought his Salinas
paintings into the historic halls of the White House, further enhaning
the Texas painter's national reputation. At the time of the President
Kennedy's assassination, Salinas had completed a scene of a horse
drinking titled "Rocky Creek" that was to have been presented to
Kennedy during his ill-fated visit to Dallas. Instead, in an effort to
memorialize the fallen President, Salinas painted a symbolic work of a
lone horse depicted against foreboding clouds. During his tenure in the
White House, President Johnson presented a Salinas landscape as a state
gift to the President of Mexico, Gustavo Diaz Ordaz (1911-1979). During
the 1960s, Salinas paintings sold briskly and, thanks to Presidential
patronage, for escalating prices. In an interview with a writer from
the New York Times, President Johnson enthused about the work of "his
favorite artist" and said that, "his work reminds me of the country
around the ranch." Salinas was invited to the LBJ Ranch frequently
during the Johnson administration and his paintings were hung
throughout the ranch, in the President's offices and even in the
private quarters of the White House. The connection to President
Johnson was a great boon to sales of Salinas paintings, and in 1964,
when the demand was at its height, Texas Governor John Connelly
(1917-1993) was told that all Salinas'work was sold and that he would
have to wait for a painting.
In 1960, a half century after his
birth, Salinas was honored by his home town of Bastrop, a celebration
that touched the modest artist. In 1962 Salinas was given a solo
exhibition at the Witte Museum in San Antonio that featured more than
twenty of his works. By the early 1960s, sales of reproductions of the
artist's landscapes by the New York Graphic Society and other
publishers grew rapidly, enlarging his audience throughout the United
States. In 1967, Dewey Bradford helped to organize the production of a
book of Texas stories titled "Bluebonnets and Cactus" (Austin:
Pemberton Press: 1967), which was profusely illustrated with paintings
by Salinas. His works were still popular when Salinas died after a
brief illness in April of 1973, just a few months after former
President Johnson's passing. He was memorialized in the City of Austin
by Porfirio Salinas Day, which honored him for having "done much to
bring the culture of Mexico and Texas together with his paintings."
Bastrop, Texas, the city of the artist's birth, has been holding a
Salinas Art Exhibition annually since 1981.
He painted hundreds of scenes of the wildflowers,
including the various varieties of Blue Lupin, the state flower, as
well as other flowering flora. These show the influence of his artistic
mentors Robert W. Wood and Jose Arpa Y Perea. Salinas also painted a
number of scenes of Prickly Pear Cactus that show the influence of the
English painter Dawson Dawson-Watson (1864-1939), who painted many such
works during his tenure in Texas. He painted the more arid Texas
landscape infrequently and these works are very rare today and sought
after by collectors from the Texas Panhandle and West Texas. Salinas
also painted many river landscapes along the Guadalupe, Rio Frio, the
San Antonio and the Rio Grande. On trips to his wife's homeland of
Mexico, he painted a number of scenes of the volcanic peaks as well as
scenes of peasant villages and villagers. Figurative paintings are rare
among Salinas' works and these scenes of bullfights, fandangos and cock
fights are probably the least sought after of his paintings. There are
also a small number of modest marines, painted on trips to the Texas
and California coast. Salinas paintings are highly prized by collectors
of early Texas art, with the paintings of wildflowers in greatest
demand.
Works by Porfirio Salinas can be found in a number of
public collections, including the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in
Canyon, Texas; the Texas State Capitol; the Texas Governor's Mansion;
the Lyndon Baines Johnson Ranch; the Sam Rayburn Library and Museum in
Bonham, Texas; Amarillo High School; the Witte Museum in San Antonio;
the historic Joan and Price Daniel House in San Antonio; the Stark
Museum in Orange, Texas; the R.W. Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport,
Louisiana; the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center in Pueblo, Colorado; Texas
A & M University and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
Salinas has been featured in a number of reference works as well as
anthologies devoted to American Western Art...
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