Dalhart Windberg

Dalhart Windberg

Texas Gulf Coast

20 x 30”

$15,000

Yes another masterpiece by Texas native and nationally acclaimed painter, Dalhart Windberg comes into the J.R. Mooney Gallery. For those not in the know, Windberg was born in 1933; went on to begin his long journey as a fine art artist in 1967 and garnered national attention in the late 1960’s after training under another Texas painter, Simon Michael.  Art Entrepreneur, Windberg sold limited edition prints, open ended editions of his work, he opened up his own art center in South Texas, ran his own business of art supplies and fine art paint label- as well as sold his original oil paintings (items that eventually matured in stature and value over his tremendous career). A true Texan in every way, he did not let anything stop him, the bigger the better. Now almost 80 yrs. old, his art has graced many a home as well as esteemed art collections and institutions.

Texas Gulf Coast is a dichotomy of thought. On the one hand Windberg exhibits a de-shelved coastline; scattered and strune seaweed, coastal grasses, broken pillars, rusted barbed wire, and miscellaneous other debris formulates a complicated visual aesthetic more in line with a post Katrina environment than with his mystical and idealistic landscape of yonder years. However, take his artistic hand and edge past the first ¼ of the painting and arrive at the glossy and gleaming water; shimmering with reflective melancholy from above. The overcast, eminent, and pressing cinereal gloom radiates into the water- complete with mirrored drab reflections of the Corpus Christie skyline. A few boats provide depth to the piece, adding a visual component that anchors the mid-ground before our eye meets the cityscape backdrop.

With such a hard and tattered wooden pillar playing focal favorite, it is tough to investigate further into his coastal rendition, until you discover the artistic shaman quality that Windberg inhibits with his trickery- yes the angled branch on the lower right bottom guides you into the cool harbor and angles you left while the direction of the boats lead you in –pointing to the right, bringing you back to the center and boom your home, safe in the comfort of the metropolitan. …Oh Windberg, your visual cues lead, corral, and deliver once again.

© Gabriel Diego Delgado