Herb Booth (Texas, 1942-2014), "When School's Out",  gouache and watercolor on artist paper

sight: 22 x 30 in., frame: 31 x 39 in.

Provenance: Property from a Rockport, Texas home

Herb Booth combined his artistic skills with his decades of experience as a naturalist and hunter, and became a painter of Texas sporting and wildlife scenes. He is best known for his watercolor paintings which capture the rugged beauty of the Texas Hill Country. In Booth's art the sense of authenticity and depth of personal experience are instantly recognizable. For the past twenty years he specialized in personalized sporting scenes including scenes of families hunting or fishing together.