For more than half a century, Austin artist Don Collins
crisscrossed Texas looking for traces of the past. Most often he
has found them in a variety of old buildings. Drawings of these
places, thirteen a year, appeared for three decades in popular
calendars issued in Austin by the Miller Blueprint Company. The
publications themselves have become collectors' items.In order to
prepare his annual calendars, Don frequented less-traveled byways
and often forgotten places. When he discovered that he had begun
retracing his routes, he bought a stack of Texas county road maps.
The artist marked the courses that he had taken so that he would be
sure to see new country on each subsequent foray: ""I would seek
out roads that followed the path of least resistance, often up a
creek. I would follow them and usually find an old structure."" In
time he expanded his geographical range to more distant areas of
the state: ""I wanted to go there and see what it's like.""In this
book, Collins has chosen seventy from more than three hundred works
of art that he created for the Miller Blueprint calendars. The
carefully detailed renderings record buildings from farmhouses to
industrial plants, from shanties to mansions. Through these pages
viewers tour the state both visually and through the artist's own
recollections about the remarkable range of places he has recorded
with pencil and paper.
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