Description
George Boutwell Texas Hill country Pastoral Farmhouse watercolor. 17" x 16"<br>framed, 9.75" x 8" sight. No issues with painting, slight wear to frame. Great<br>painting by a listed Texas artist, much better in person.<br><br>Born in East Hartford, Connecticut, in 1943. After his Mothers untimely death in<br>1945, he and his father traveled around the country and by the time he started<br>the First Grade in San Antonio, Texas, they had lived in Connecticut, Vermont,<br>Maine, New York, Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee, California and Texas. George<br>spent most of his life in Austin and moved to Bosque County in 1987 where he and<br>his wife Martha live on a ranch near Clifton, in a 1904 Victorian home known as<br>Highview, which is set on the crest of a hill overlooking the Bosque River<br>Valley. The Boutwell's have two daughters: Valerie 49, and Kimberlee 47, two<br>grandsons: Josh 19 and Brady 16 and one Granddaughter, Kaylee 13. Hobbies and<br>interests include Historic Preservation, Old Cars, fossil and observation of<br>wildlife and Longhorn Cattle.<br><br>George was Art Director for Texas Highways Magazine from 1966 to 1972 and became<br>aware of the diversity of Texas during that time and this awareness has become<br>the focus of his life's work. George has refused to specialize in one Genre of<br>Art and only limits the scope of his work to Texas. He has been able to make his<br>living exclusively from his Art for 40 Years!<br><br>The Boutwell's former home in Austin won a 1983 Austin Heritage Society Award<br>which was presented at the Governor’s Mansion. George was an appointed member of<br>the Austin Historic Landmark Commission from 1982 to 1985.<br><br>Professional Background<br>Art Training:<br>Self-taught. George was too poor to afford Art Lessons and due to his failing<br>half a year of High School because he was sitting in class drawing cars instead<br>of studying his grades were not sufficient to enter College. He read every Art<br>book he could find in the Public Library and practiced continually, doing 100<br>sketches per day for one year! When he was finally able to afford Art Lessons it<br>was because he had become a full time Professional Commercial Artist and had<br>some disposable income for the first time in his life. George took a<br>correspondence course in Fine Art from the Famous Artist School which helped him<br>make the transition from Commercial to Fine Art in 1973.<br>anderas
