Porfirio Salinas (1910 - 1973), Hill Country Texas, Red Oak in Autumn

Priced in US Dollars.  Porfirio Salinas, Jr., painter, son of Porfirio G. Salinas and Clara G. Chávez, was born in Bastrop, Texas, on November 6, 1910. He attended the public schools of San Antonio for three years and was largely self-taught as an artist. He learned from watching José Arpa, director of the San Antonio Art School, sketch in the streets and fields of San Antonio. He also learned from Robert Wood, a prolific landscape painter, who paid him five dollars a picture to paint in bluebonnets on his canvases because "he hated to paint bluebonnets."Salinas dedicated himself to painting landscapes of Central Texas with particular attention to the bluebonnets that grow in abundance in the springtime. This autumn view of the Hill Country depicts the Red 
Oak in fall.  This measures 16"  x 19.5" framed  (the actual work is 10" by 13", oil on board. Signed lower left.