CREDITS
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The Alamo
The wallpaper on this site is a painting by the late West Texas artist,
Vera Griffin. She painted this picture
to enter in a contest in Lubbock. The phone company planned to feature
a painting on the cover of the phone books. She enjoyed doing the
painting of the Alamo with pictures of James Bowie, Colonel William
Barret Travis, and Davy Crockett, even though she did not win the
contest.
Vera Carrell Griffin began painting in the early 1960's. She
first started painting on her own and then began taking art courses.
Well-known artists she studied with were: Dr. Emilio Caballero,
former head of the art department at West Texas A and M in Canyon,
Texas, Paul Milosevich, Mac Carrow and Ben Konis.
For more than 15 years she conducted weekly art lessons for adults and
children in the area where she lived, as well as workshops throughout
the South Plains and Permian Basin areas of Texas.
Her work consists of landscapes in oils, some western art, and
portraits in pastels and charcoal. She entered various shows and
exhibits and won numerous awards for her work. Her paintings have been
displayed in banks and restaurants in her local area, and in a gallery
at Town East Mall in Mesquite, Texas.
Her Alamo painting is used here with gracious permission of her
daughter who operates a website that features many of
Vera's works HERE
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