This oil painting of a man and his horse is so realistic – it’s as if the cowboy and horse could just walk right out of the canvas.
It was commissioned by Mrs. Beck of Stephenville, Texas in 1977, and according to Mom’s notes, it is a portrait of her late husband. I don’t know where it is today.
– Bonnie Sudderth
Here’s Santa after he’s returned home from his Christmas Eve journey, relaxing with a hot cup of cocoa in his big easy chair.
Mom painted this one for me as a Christmas gift in the mid-1990′s. It’s not Christmas without Santa’s portrait hanging on my dining room wall!
Merry Christmas!
– Bonnie Sudderth
To help celebrate Thanksgiving, I thought I’d post three of Mom’s wild turkey paintings. Throughout the years, Mom featured wild turkeys in many of her works, and she always seemed to capture their color, their gait and their wildlife habits. This first one was painted in 1976 for the First National Bank of Gordon, Texas:
I know nothing about the next painting, except that she painted it in 1977.
Mom painted this last one in 1978 and it was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Red Durham, of Comanche, Texas, who were close family friends.
– Bonnie Sudderth
Mom wasn’t much of a cowgirl, but she could really capture the cowboy culture in her artwork. I don’t know where this rangler went, but he couldn’t have gotten far – the cigarette beside his coffee mug is still lit!
If every picture tells a story, this one is certainly a tale of the Old West.
– Bonnie Sudderth
This is a sweet one of a couple in the garden. I don’t know who they are or the current whereabouts of the painting. It has the characteristic subdued tones and impressionistic style that Mom’s paintings were known for.
– Bonnie Sudderth
I don’t know anything about this painting, or where it is today, but I LOVE it! An old six-shooter, a set of keys, a star badge and a Wanted Dead or Alive Poster – all captured in brown and white tones. I can almost smell the trail dust.
Mom’s painting takes me back to my favorite Westerns on T.V. and at the movies during my childhood.
– Bonnie Sudderth
This Holly Hobby ragdoll painting was a gift to Mom’s niece, Sherry Adams, and her husband Jim, who live in the Houston area. It was painted in 1978, just two years after the U.S. Bicentennial. Holly Hobby, as I recall, dressed in her Colonial attire, was as a popular item during the Bicentennial year, and Mom very creatively infused some other items from the Colonial period into the work as well, making it a lovely historical piece.
– Bonnie Sudderth
Mom painted this still life in 1977 and presented it to my sister, Sandi, as a gift.
But I have it now and she’s not getting it back! (I think the statute of limitations has run.)
– Bonnie Sudderth
Mom painted this still life as a gift to her sister, Betty Williams, of Fort Worth. Aunt Betty was also an artist – she and Mom attended art workshops together for many years. (There are several photographs of them painting together on the “Photos of Carole” Page above.) (Link)
– Bonnie Sudderth
Mom could really paint beautiful sunflowers. I don’t know anything about this one, except that I really love it. I don’t know when it was painted or where it finds itself today.
This one was painted for the Gorman Bank in 1977 and has a more country or western flair, as did most of the artwork she created for the Gorman Bank during that time.
This one was also a commissioned painting for First National Bank of Gorman (1977). They aren’t sunflowers, I don’t think, but they’re still pretty.
– Bonnie Sudderth
