Friday, October 26, 2012

Sally Minter



Bluebonnet Field

Centuries of suppressed female artists coupled with the championed male counterparts can be seen as far back as the medieval guilds and in most cases absolutely reflective in the antiquity artists; creating a culture of woman suffrage in the arts. It comes as no surprise that in the genre of traditional landscape painting- specifically-Texas Bluebonnet landscapes; a category of fine art cemented in the Southern U.S. starting in the early 1900’s there is a lack of famous, successful, or even high-esteemed female painters. 

However, when a female painter gains admiration and respect within the overwhelmingly close-knit circles of art collectorships, they (the female painters) tend to become exceedingly prominent.  Such is the case with Bluebonnet and landscape painter Sally Minter. Known as a portrayer of the regional countryside, Minter tends to excel at a signatory Bluebonnet look. Based on numerous field studies and on-location sketches her paintings awe in a mature and simplistic aesthetic, capturing just enough detail in the application that she purposefully balances the impressionistic quality vs. the overt realism heralded by other painters of this methodical approach- creating a unique landscape painting.

Bluebonnet Field is a typical example of Sally Minter’s artwork. A wispy field of overgrown vegetation is accented with hordes of bluebonnet clusters. The mid-ground stands as the pictorial space assigned to covet the rustic visual elements like the stoned façade cottage, the broken property fencing and the ol’ oak trees. A lone cactus bush in the foreground acts as a splendidly spiky subject garnering for attention over the dominating country time nostalgia of Texas Hill Country. An over-clichéd Texas sky of light blues is overridden by the hazy backdrop of an impenetrable tree line.

Overall, still actively painting in Wimberley, Texas, Sally Minter delivers a notable painting in Bluebonnet Field; breaking free of the traditional Texas landscape painter male stereotype.

 © Gabriel Diego Delgado

Sally Minter's Bluebonnet Fields painting is available for purchase at the J.R. Mooney Galleries of Fine Art Gallery, San Antonio. 

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