Commissioned Works
While murals are obviously commissioned works, commissioned paintings on panel or canvas represent a very important part of my practice
The works below include commissions for the Sam Houston Memorial Museum and Presidential Library, Texas A&M Victoria, McCollum Custom Homes of Houston, and private collections. My love of Texas is my most persistently recurring theme.
This work was created for a group of women wishing to honor a friend with a home on the beautiful Guadalupe River in Texas. Recalling it is a bittersweet thought to me now, though. It is likely it may have been affected by last summer's catastrophic flooding along the river.
Three works were designed to hang together at a student facility at Texas A&M University, Victoria, to celebrate landscapes, industry, and architecture.
A client in College Station, Tx. remembers the country church near her Paris, Tx. home.
The Davis Mountains rise in the background of an expansive ranch. Then, diverse landscape and ancient Pecos River Culture paintings are celebrated in the frame of this challenging commission.
I have collaborated for nearly a quarter of a century with Houston homebuilder, Schacht McCollum, painting possibly 100 or more home portraits for him, in addition to family portraits and murals.
I painted this portrait of a child for a Huntsville area client.
Nothing has been more consistent in the last thirty years of my career than my love of, and focus on, the history of Texas. This portrait of Sam Houston at about the age of 47 is a case in point. Commissioned for the Sam Houston Memorial Museum and Presidential Library in 2025, it hangs today in the museum's rotunda.
This painting is not technically a commission. Instead, it was painted toward what I saw as a need in telling Texas' story.
A work that took more than a month just to research with the assistance of library staff at Sam Houston State University, Old Main remembers important aspects of one of the most remarkable works of architecture ever to be owned by the State of Texas. Built in the late 1880s, Old Main reinstated Sam Houston at the pinnacle of Texas heroes despite his support of the Union and removal from office as governor only thirty years before. Windows featured in the building included the largest, the "Sam Houston Window". Generous donors assisted the university in purchasing the painting in 2026. It now hangs in the university's Lowman Student Center.