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Jewel Bernier
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Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973)
signed 'Porfirio Salinas' (lower left); titled and dated (in a pencil inscription on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
23 7/8 x 36 in. (60.6 x 91.4 cm)
Footnotes
Provenance
The collection of the artist.
A private collection, California.
Roughton Galleries, Dallas, Texas.
The present private collection (acquired from the previous, 2004).
N.B.
Porfirio Salinas was born in Texas to a family of Mexican-American tenant farmers, and left to work in the studio of painter Robert William Wood at age 15. He accompanied Wood on many of his trips to the Texas countryside, painting the valleys, hills, and wildflower meadows of the greater San Antonio area. By 1930 Salinas had begun his independent career. He became best known for his vibrant scenes of iconic Texas flora, such as Texas bluebonnets, Texas Red Oak, and prickly pear cactus. Salinas was a favorite artist of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson. Lady Bird said of Salinas's paintings: 'I want to see them when ever I open the door, to remind me of where I came from' (quoted in The Home: Ormes & the Man, Time magazine, November 17, 1961).
