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A. Robinson Ranch Blanco County, Texas

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	mapeces: It's image is a landscape alive, everything is live trees, rocks, the sky, all the houses .... moves, it has a tremendous dynamism and with a dream, a beautiful work, it brings an originality, content and life unusual. Posted Mar 24, 2008 8:30pm
	Joseph: How beautiful is this??? Very beautiful...And I might share the same concern! Down with Wal-Mart..Love your work and this story behind it..I felt you brought me there in time And space. Did you hear me ring the bell?...Thank you again! Joseph Posted Mar 24, 2008 8:35pm
	Artisan: I did, yes, jr! (laughing) It is truly a magical place. Thank you both for appreciating it so fondly. It means a great deal to me. Posted Mar 24, 2008 8:38pm
	ridha70: Very interesting work , Full fantasy with excellent composition .. Bravo dear Artisan Posted Mar 24, 2008 9:20pm
	lanyguy2: I love this painting- it makes you wish and feel like you could walk right in. It has an ethereal, almost heavenly quality Posted Mar 24, 2008 11:20pm
	Julie's_Art: This is gorgeous! Posted Mar 30, 2008 11:35pm
	krzysztof lozowski: Your paintings are very veracity, very interesting and original!!!!Krzysztof:) Posted Aug 5, 2008 2:51pm
	SANTAIKA Irmina: WOW!!! Great, Original and Expressive ArtWork! Posted Sep 11, 2008 1:10am

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Uploaded on March 24, 2008
by Artisan

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Paintings and Drawings
Oil, Ink & Aquarelle on...
4' x 2" x 5'

This was one of those "must do" pieces. It is a ranch I was fortunate enough to have spent a great many years on thanks to the Robinson family. It was and is pure and unchanged since their ancestor bought the 5000 acres just outside of Austin, Texas in 1885. It has remained in the family to this day. It was the site of the last indian masacre whereby Mr. & Mrs. Phelps were killed but the children were spared. The ruin of their homestead remains today just behind the main house which was later a stage coach inn and then a land owners home with his ranch foreman's house across the way. There remains an enormous iron bell hanging from a tree which called the workers in from the fields and set them out in the morning. All of this up until Alonzo Robinson bought it and raised his family upon it. With a successful mercantile in downtown Austin and later co-ownership in the famous Iron Door Saloon. It is historic and is rich with artifacts of these days gone by. It has nurtured many generations of the Robinson family including me. I am eternally grateful and wanted to pay tribute to this remarkable parcel of land where I put on countless vaudeville shows for the cattle, sat on the stones in the river making shapes out of the clouds drifting by, and where I found myself a complete being. It is my eternal hope that it never becomes the home of a Super Walmart, but that its integrity is valued and upheld always.