Robert Wood (Texas / California, 1889-1979), "Near San Antonio, Texas", bluebonnet landscape, oil on canvas panel, signed lower right

sight: 12 x 16 in., frame: 19 x 23 in.

Purchased in 1963 from the Charles S. Grieve Gallery in Los Angeles, California; thence passed by family inheritance

A painter of realistic landscapes reflecting a vanishing wilderness in America, Robert Wood traveled extensively all over the United States, especially in the West, California and Colorado, often in freight cars, and also painted in Mexico and Canada. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, he lived in San Antonio, Texas. He gained a national reputation for his strong colored, dramatic paintings. Wood also gave art lessons, and one of his students was Porfirio Salinas.