two years after his death. There is a Youth Art Exhibition showcasing work by K-12 students, named after the artist, held each year in Bastrop. In celebration of the centennial of Salinas' birth, the Witte Museum mounted an exhibition titled Porfirio Salinas: Painting South Texas that opened on October 16, 2010, and ran to March 20, 2011. Artistic production The professional career of Porfirio Salinas stretched to more than forty years. According to the art historian Jeffrey Morseburg, he is estimated to have painted between two and three thousand works. His work is divided among a number of subjects, but Hill Country landscapes of the Texas bluebonnets predominate. The bluebonnet landscape has remained eternally popular with both collectors of historic Texas paintings and contemporary artists. Salinas also painted many scenes of Texas red oak trees in the autumn and prickly pear cactus. There were also scenes of the Texas desert in the Texas Panhandle and of arid West Texas. Salinas made trips to Mexico and painted rural Mexican villages and the volcanoes that are south of Mexico City. For Mexican American audiences, Salinas painted small scenes of bullfights, cockfights and Mexican fandangos. Personal life Salinas married Maria Bonillas, a Mexican woman who worked for the Mexican National Railways, in San Antonio in 1943. They had a single child, Christina Maria Salinas, who was born in 1945. Maria Bonillas Salinas helped manage her husband's career. The Salinas home and studio was located at 2723 Buena Vista Street in San Antonio. It consists of a small stone home with a detached studio. Public collections Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas Texas State Capitol, Austin, Texas Texas Governor's Mansion, Austin, Texas R. W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, Louisiana Amarillo High School, Amarillo, Texas Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, Colorado Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Ft. Worth, Texas Price-Daniel House, Austin, Texas Rayburn Library and Museum, University of Texas, Austin, Texas Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas Lyndon Baines Johnson Ranch, Johnson City, Texas Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia References External links Witte Museum, San Antonio, Porfirio Salinas: Painting South Texas Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas Texasbluebonnetpainters.com website Interview with Mrs. Porfirio Salinas, February 4, 1982, University of Texas at San Antonio: Institute of Texan Cultures: Oral History Collections, UA 15.01, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections. American Impressionist painters