Nuevo Santander
Gallery
Fine Art - Antiques - Old
West Collectibles
717 North Main Street
¤ McAllen
TX 78501
(956) 618-4959 ¤ fax (956) 618-1746
nsantander@aol.com
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A.D. GREER (1904-1998) An artist, poet, lecturer, and illustrator, A.D. Greer became a legend among Texas landscape painters because of his popularity and the high-dollar values of his illuminist, romantic paintings. He lives primarily in New York City but paints numerous southwestern landscapes. A traditional oil painter of Western landscapes and still lifes, A. D. Greer was born in Pond Creek, Oklahoma in 1904 and living in Austin, Texas since 1965. "I was expelled from public school from drawing in class", he recalls. "Some of the drawings were risque, and there was talk of sending me to the reform school. The probate judge, however, was a woman. She said I belonged in an art school, not in a reform school." "I was about seventeen before I started painting with watercolors, and then I switched to oils when I was twenty. The first oil painting I sold was for $50. Even if I couldn't sell something, I'd draw a picture for something to eat. I took whatever I could to get a hold of for money that was honest. In 1941, I was doing stage curtains, fine art for galleries, hustling pool. A man came to me and said he wanted to publish two of my paintings. I said, 'If I were your son, would you advise me to do this?' He said, 'Sure', and so I did it. He was active from 1938 to 1986 as a painter, muralist, and commercial artist. The artist is included in the "Dictionary of Texas Artists: 1800-1945" by Paula Grauer and Michael Grauer (1999), "Artist of Texas: Volume I" by J. Pat Breedlove and Cindy Breedlove (1986), "American Artist" by Les Krintz (1985) and "The Texas Art Review" by Les Krantz (1982).
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