South Texas – Matulart

A recreated mission on the South Texas plains: painting the La Bahia chapel.

For nearly 300 years, the kingdom of Spain held the deed for the great wilderness of what is now Texas. Claiming title to that land meant little, though. Few Spaniards lived in the remote frontier, or cared to do so. As an absentee owner, Spain had no reliable way of knowing when European trespassers were […]

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Behind the Painting: Kickapoo Caverns Shed

In Kinney County, Texas, you cannot go much further west without being in Coahuila, Mexico. The Kickapoo Caverns State Park is a good look at what the landscape is like where the Edwards Plateau gives up and creeps off into the Rio Grande. It’s a scrubby, unforgiving environment for man, beast and vehicles. It’s also