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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 Gambel's Quail $675 Oil 11" x 14" © 2005 Travis Keese ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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TRAVIS KEESE Travis was born in Lyons, Texas in 1932. He currently resides in Kerrville, Texas. Travis received his Bachelors of Fine arts degree from the University of Houston. Travis served in the US Army from 1954-1957 when he was trained as a photolithographer. He worked as staff artist for the Houston Museum of Natural science from 1964-1971 producing wildlife background dioramas, posters and murals. Travis was selected to design and paint two shipwreck murals for the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History. He also designed and painted a 125' x 23' mural for the Museum of the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur. His work hangs in corporate and private collections and has been made into numerous prints. He has regularly entered competitive painting exhibitions and joined the Texas Association of Professional Artists in 1977. He is included in "Samuel's Contemporary Western Artists". "As long as I can see the natural world, I feel the need to put down on canvas a world I can create within its dimensions."
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