Dewey Bradford (1896-1985) Austin Texas Landscape c1920's Oil on Canvas Board

Description: Dewey Bradford (1896-1985) Austin Texas Landscape c1920's Oil on Canvas Board.
9" x 12" painting in a 14.5" x 17.5" original frame. This painting is about
85-100 years old with no significant issues to painting or frame.

Dewey Bradford was the founder of The Country Store Gallery, Austin, Texas. In
1939, Porfirio Salinas began working with Dewey Bradford (1896-1985), one of the
great characters of Texas art. Bradford was a second-generation dealer whose
family operated the Bradford Paint Company in Austin, where they sold art
supplies, framed artwork, restored paintings and hung artists work. Salinas was
struggling when he met Bradford, but the older man took the young artist under
his wing and began to sell his work reliably, even though the prices that people
would pay for a painting were still low due to the lingering effects of the
Great Depression.

Bradford was a born salesman with a gift for storytelling, and truth be told, a
bit of embroidery. The relationship between Bradford and Salinas was often
rocky, but it was to last the rest of the artists life and give him a modest
sense of loyalty and security, things which are all too rare in the art world.
While Bradford could be critical of his work, Salinas knew that he had a dealer
who encouraged him, believed in him and was not shy about singing his praises to
anyone who entered Bradford's store on Guadalupe Street.