Rock Art of Texas Indians

Name: Rock Art of Texas Indians
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ISBN: 9780292736764

ISBN-10: 0292736762

ISBN-13: 9780292736764

Edition: 1996

Authors: Forrest Kirkland, W. W. Newcomb, Jr. Newcomb. W. W.

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After viewing Indian rock paintings on a bluff above the Concho River near Paint Rock, Texas, in 1934, the late Dallas artist Forrest Kirkland was seized with an idea. He wrote later, "Here was a veritable gallery of primitive art at the mercy of the elements and the hands of a destructive people. In a few more years only the hundreds of deeply carved names and smears of modern paint would remain to mark the site of the paintings left by the Indians. . . . What was at first merely a suggestion in my mind soon became a solemn command. I was a trained artist able to make accurate copies of these Indian paintings. I should save them from total ruin."Kirkland devoted a good part of the rest of…

Book details

List price: $70.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 1/1/1966
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 253
Size: 9.75" wide x 12.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.278
Language: English



Preface



Forrest Kirkland and his Paintings



An Introduction to Rock Art



A Survey of the World's Rock Art



The Lower Pecos: Ancient Paintings



The Lower Pecos: Later Art



The Big Bend



Central Texas-The Eastern Periphery



Hueco Tanks and the Panhandle



A Summing Up


Appendix: Texas Memorial Museum


Reference


Numbers for Kirkland Sketches


Bibliography


Index