"Blanco Blues"

  • Details

    landscape, bluebonnet

  • Biography

    Cliff Cavin

    Cliff Cavin, a native of San Antonio, Texas, is a landscape artist and has been painting for over thirty-five years.  His focus is on the views of the American West, especially Texas and New Mexico. He has well over fifty professional exhibits to his name, most recently a one-man show at the Museum of Western Art in Kerrville, Texas that included forty-five pieces.  He has also participated in shows such as the C. M. Russell Invitational Sale & Benefit, the American Plains Artist Museum Show, the Oil Painters of America National Exhibition and has had exhibitions at The Nave Museum, the Harlingen Public Library, the Southwest School of Art and San Antonio Art League.  In addition, this is the twelfth year he has been invited to participate in the annual Briscoe Museum Night of Artist Sale & Exhibition.  His paintings have won numerous awards and are collected both nationally and internationally in private and corporate collections, including Valero Oil, M.D. Anderson Hospital, Jefferson State Bank, Baylor Scott & White Health and Cibolo Creek Ranch.


    Exhibitions

    Texas Trails Galleries - San Antonio, Texas:
    Exhibitions - October, 1983 May, 1992
    October, 1985 May, 1993
    April, 1986 May, 1994
    May, 1990 June, 1995
    June, 1991

    Odyssey Gallery, San Antonio, Texas:
    Exhibitions - 1984 and 1989

    Art, Incorporated, San Antonio, Texas:
    Solo Exhibition - December,2003

    Nuevo Santander Gallery, McAllen, Texas:
    Solo Exhibition - November, 2004

    KLRN TV Annual Art Auction, San Antonio, Texas:
    Exhibition - September, 1994
    September, 1995

    Alamo Kiwanis Club Western Art Show:
    Exhibition - February of 1995, 1996, 2001,
    2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

    David Robinson Foundation, San Antonio, Texas:
    Exhibition - 1997

    San Antonio Art League:
    Exhibition - 1988

    Make A Wish Foundation, San Antonio, Texas:
    Exhibition - March, 2002

    Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, Texas:
    Exhibition - October, 2006

    American Plains Artists, Lubbock Texas:
    Museum Exhibition - August, 1995

    Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila, Mexico:
    Museum Exhibition - June 1995

    Harlingen Public Library, Harlingen, Texas:
    Museum Exhibition - May, 2002

    Oil Painters of America, San Antonio, Texas
    National Exhibition - May, 1995

    International Museum of Contemporary Masters of
    Fine Art Salon International:
    Competition/Exhibition: May, 2002
    March, 2006

    National Western Art Foundation Night of Artists:
    Museum Exhibition - February, 2005
    March, 2006
    March, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
     Russell Museum Invitational Sale and Benefit March  2010, 2011 Dallas Heritage Village Museum Art Show 2012 The Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas Museum Exhibition, January 2016 Museum of Western Art, Kerrville, Texas Solo Exhibition, November 2017 Museum of Western Art, Kerrville, Texas Roundup Show, September 2019 Collections and Commissions:
    Reggiano's Restaurant, San Antonio, Texas
    Valero Oil, San Antonio, Texas
    Harlingen Public Library, Harlingen, Texas
    CTRC, San Antonio, Texas
    Scott & White Hospital, Tyler, Texas
    M. D. Anderson Hospital, Houston, Texas
    Jefferson State Bank, San Antonio, Texas
    Cibolo Creek Ranch, Shafter, Texas