Part of an old map of the San Jacinto area from the Texas Revolution

PAINTING, "Sam Houston"

CATEGORY: COMMUNICATION ARTIFACTS
MEASUREMENTS: 16"H x 14"W
DATE MADE: 1961

Description

Painting (a). Watercolor on wood. Painting 11"H x 9 1/4"W. Portrait of Sam Houston. Bust view. Gray hair. White high collared shirt. Dark coat. Black tie. Signed "C. C. Beall-" down left proper shoulder. In wooden frame with muslin border (b).

Provenance

Appeared in the August 1961 edition of The Reader's Digest in "Sam Houston's Last Stand", condensed from John Fitzgerald Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage".

ASSOCIATED VETERAN: Houston, Sam
ASSOCIATED INDIVIDUAL: Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
CREDIT LINE: Reader's Digest (c/o C.D. Wood, Art Editor)