"Porfirio Salinas: Bluebonnets and Cactus" book, 1967, in box sleeve, not signed, pub. The Pemberton Press, 132 pages

height 9 in. x width 12 in. x depth 1 in.

Provenance: Property from the home a noted San Antonio, Texas architect Craig Blount 

Porfirio Salinas was born in Bastrop, Texas on November 6, 1910. He lived most of his life in San Antonio, Texas where he died on April 18, 1973. Salinas painted landscapes of Central Texas with an emphasis on the vast bluebonnet fields that grow there in the springtime. He studied with the director of the San Antonio Art School, Jose Arpa, as well as Robert Wood. Lydon Baines Johnson was an avid collector of Salinas' work.