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.
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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