Lester Hughes (El Paso, Texas, b. 1940), cowboy and ruins, oil on canvas  sight: 12 x 24 in., frame: 14 x 25.5 in.  Provenance: Property from the collection of an Austin, Texas gentleman Lester Hughes was a self-taught, color-blind artist who painted imaginative landscapes of the Southwest, often with horse-back riding cowboys intent on their duties. President Ronald Reagan purchased over a dozen paintings by Hughes, and some of them hung in the White House during Reagan's tenure.