Gilbert Franz Neumann (Texas, 1906-1970), bluebonnet landscape, oil on canvas panel, signed lower left

sight: 11 x 14 in., frame: 14.5 x 17.5 in.

Provenance: Property from a home in Little River, Texas

Gilbert Neumann, a native of San Antonio, was one of Jose Arpa's top students, working and exhibiting in San Antonio in the late 1920s and 1930s. Neumann painted a mural as part of the government art project during the Depression which was hung in the Robert B. Green Hospital titled Autumn. During the early 1930s, Neumann joined with photographer and artist Ernst Raba to open a fine arts school, and as a member of the Leon Spring Art Colony taught art during the summers at Leon Springs just outside of San Antonio. Neumann exhibited in the Edgar B. Davis competitions in 1927 and 1929, at the Witte Museum with works by Jose Arpa and his students, the San Antonio Artists Guild, The Annual Texas Artists Exhibition in Fort Worth, The Dallas Woman's Forum and others.