Warren Hunter (San Antonio, Texas, 1904-1993), Mexican landscape with view of village and mountains, watercolor on watercolor paper, signed lower right

sight: 21 x 29 in., frame: 28.5 x 35.5 in.

Provenance: Property from an estate in San Antonio, Texas

Warren Hunter (John Warren Hunter), a Texas painter, muralist, illustrator, and teacher, received his formal training at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he enrolled in 1935 and graduated with honors in 1939. After returning to San Antonio, Hunter completed a notable New Deal-era post office mural in Alice, Texas. The mural was later preserved and installed at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Art. Hunter built a long teaching career at the Witte Memorial Museum School of Art, the San Antonio Art Institute (where he became Dean in 1951), and his own Hunter School of Art. As an illustrator, he earned numerous awards, with work appearing in history textbooks and Ford Times, establishing a respected regional and educational legacy.