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Lester Hughes"PRAIRIE HOME" WESTERN HOMESTEAD El Paso Artist
$3,900
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Lester Hughes
(1938-2021)
El Paso Artist
Image Size: 24 x 36
Frame Size: 21 x 43
Medium: Oil on Canvas
"Prairie Home"
Biography
Lester Hughes (1938-2021)
From El Paso, Texas, Lester Hughes was a self-taught artist who painted imaginative landscapes of the Southwest, often with horse-back riding cowboys intent on their duties. President Ronald Reagan purchased over a dozen paintings by Hughes, and some of them hung in the White House during Reagan's tenure.
Back in 1969, when Lester Hughes quit his job as a business supply salesman to become a full-time artist, he never dreamed that one day his paintings would hang in the White House. Seven years later, however, this artists' dream came true, when one of his works was presented to President-elect Ronald Reagan during a 1976 campaign stop in Hughes' hometown of El Paso, Texas. According to "Time" magazine that particular painting, a 24" x 36" oil featuring a Southwestern landscape with a dilapidated windmill and old shack, and several of Hughes' other works did hang in the presidential mansion during Reagan's tenure in office. Over the years, Reagan continued to be so enamored with Hughes' paintings that he purchased at least a dozen more.
Success did not change Hughes' personality. Looking at his simple lifestyle, it is difficult to imagine that he numbers a bevy of Congressmen and Senators, and numerous other celebrities such as actress Betty White, golfer Lee Trevino, and ex-Presidents George Bush and Gerald Ford among the collectors of his work.
- Creator:Lester Hughes (1940, American)
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
- More Editions Sizes:Image Size: 24 x 36 Frame Size: 21 x 43Price: $3,900
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- Condition:Please visit my 1stdibs storefront for other Vintage, Mid Century contemporary Texas paintings, sculpture, pottery and more.
- Gallery Location:San Antonio, TX
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU769315159922
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