Description
Arthur McCall Texas Hill country Landscape "October Sunset" c1984. Sold in 1984<br>for $738.50 with tax, reciept included. Oil on canvas 25" x 31" framed, 16" x<br>24" canvas. No damage to painting or frame. That was almost 40 years ago and<br>since then the artist has gained some impressive auction results and commands<br>higher prices in general.<br><br>Arthur McCall, a native of South Texas is a long-time resident of Pleasanton,<br>Texas. He has had an interest in drawing and painting as far back as he can<br>remember, a childhood hobby that has grown into a professional career. He would<br>call himself a self-taught artist even though commercial art studies were an<br>early part of his beginning in art. This schooling, however brief, was<br>interrupted by military service and eventually being assigned to the U.S. Army<br>First Infantry Division and a tour to Vietnam back in the 1960s, ended the art<br>schooling. Some years later McCall was selected to attend the Texas Game Warden<br>Academy at Texas University and was commissioned as a Texas Game Warden in 1969.<br>He was assigned to Atascosa County in 1971 and served the area as Game Warden<br>until 2012 when he retired after 43 years of service.
