Oil on artist board, signed and dated 1969 at lower left, with artist inscription to verso, housed in original gilt and painted wooden frame.

Frame dimensions 16 1/2 x 20 1/2 in.

Collection of a Gentleman, Hillsborough, North Carolina

A prominent early Texas artist and muralist who lived in El Paso, Eugene Thurston was also a teacher and lecturer. For his landscapes, much of his subject matter came from the area surrounding his home. He was a prolific painter, continuing into his 80s, and worked in oil, watercolor, and ink and depicted desert and mountain scenes and also Mexican villages.

Some surface grime; light staining to liner.