William Slaughter (American, 1923-2003), Texas Hill Country

Lot Details & Additional Photographs

Oil on canvas, signed at lower left, retaining Pritchard Gallery label to verso, presented in the original frame.

Stretcher size 11 x 14 in.; Frame dimensions 18 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.

Pritchard Gallery, Houston, Texas

William A. Slaughter, born in San Antonio and later based in Dallas, was a largely self-taught Texas artist whose path to painting followed an earlier vocation as a Lutheran minister. After serving in the Air Force during World War II and ministering in Texas and Mexico, he turned seriously to art, eventually exhibiting with the Artists and Craftsmen’s Association of Dallas, where he won first place in landscape (1968) and still life (1973). Known for his realist style, Slaughter produced a wide range of subjects, including Texas landscapes, figures, still lifes, wildlife, and depictions of ethnic women and children.