As a regionalist painter, and one of the state’s foremost pastel artists, Jeri Salter was keenly aware of Frank Reaugh’s work, appreciating his personal mastery of their chosen medium and inspired by his like-minded devotion to record the Texas countryside in pastel. In 2014, under the tutelage of Michael Grauer and Robert Reitz, she embarked on a modern-day odyssey to trace the tracks of Reaugh’s rambling sketch trips West of Dallas. One year, and 30 pastels later, Salter presents a stunning tribute to Reaugh in a noteworthy one-woman show. Through her own pastel journals, Salter revisits many of the sites documented by Reaugh in his frequent forays to the West Texas range during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, rendering contemporary views of familiar Reaugh subject matter with twenty-first century perspective and in a style all her own.
