Buck Schiwetz is best known for his depiction of the Texas scene, and Texas predominates in this volume of eighty works of art, sixty-four of them splendidly reproduced in full color. Included are a number of scenes from his boyhood in Central Texas, beautiful interpretations of the Texas Gulf Coast, and paintings and drawings from the artist's early career, as he takes us to New York, Louisiana, Mexico, and Italy.
Buck Schiwetz is best known for his depiction of the Texas scene, and Texas predominates in this volume of eighty works of art, sixty-four of them spl...
Sallie Reynolds Matthews wrote "Interwoven" so that her children and their children would know how their family and the Lambshead Ranch legacy grew on the Texas frontier. Far beyond her modest intentions, the book became a classic soon after its original publication in 1936. As Robert Nail wrote in his introduction to the 1958 edition designed by the renowned bookman Carl Hertzog, "When you read her account of the day her family moved into a mysterious, abandoned ranch house on the very edge of the unconquered prairie and see, as her small girl eyes saw, the broken window glass littering...
Sallie Reynolds Matthews wrote "Interwoven" so that her children and their children would know how their family and the Lambshead Ranch legacy grew on...