Description
John Bethel Powers (1919-2005) Texas Hill country landscape oil on canvas. 16" x<br>20" canvas with a 24.5" x 29" frame. Clean frame with minor wear, no wear or<br>issues whatsoever with painting.<br><br>As a school boy, John B. Powers drew pictures of his classmates in the margins<br>of his assignment papers - not always to the delight of his teachers. But some<br>of them recognized and encouraged his early talent, and Powers, who was born in<br>Oklahoma in 1919 and has lived in Texas and the Southwest all his life,<br>successfully combined art with an engineering career. He is today a Registered<br>Professional Engineer turned full time Artist.<br><br>Powers stays busy painting for his many collectors in several states. His<br>pictures hang in Austin homes and in homes and offices in California, Arizona,<br>Oklahoma, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Ohio, Colorado and Washington, D.C. One of his<br>paintings has hung in the United States Senate.<br><br>As an environmental engineer, Powers knows the various moods of nature, their<br>awesome intensity and fierce powers. As a painter, however, he most often<br>prefers nature in gentle beauty and spreading color, with contrast in light and<br>color and with special emphasis on good composition.<br><br>The artist has traveled and painted throughout Texas, Colorado, Arkansas,<br>Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and California. Among favorite<br>scenes are Texas Hill Country, Yosemite National Park and Monterey Bay, Calif.,<br>the California, Arizona and New Mexico deserts, Big Bend National Park, Red Rock<br>Country, Arizona (Sedona) and Palo Duro Canyon.<br><br>Dr. Merlin Enabnit of Phoenix, the world renowned colorist, teacher, lecturer<br>and author with whom Powers has studied, has said this about his work: "The<br>paintings of John Powers are creations of rare beauty as they are not only<br>beautiful in color but also powerful in third dimension true living symbols of<br>nature."<br><br>Powers has studied also with the late A.L. Browning of California, well known<br>for his Rocky Mountain scenes, and with Wes and Roberta Speir of Austin and<br>Taos, N.M., western and landscape artists, and E.M. Moore, Austin landscape<br>artist.<br><br>He has attended seminars and demonstrations by many noted artists , among them<br>A.D. Greer and Dalhart Windberg of Austin, Edgar A. Whitney of New England and<br>Jose Vives Atsara of San Antonio.<br><br>His paintings have been exhibited in Austin, Texas at Fiesta; Little Rock,<br>Arkansas; Vail, Colorado and Prescott, Arizona.
