The Rock Art of Texas Indians

by Forrest Kirkland

Book Overview

After viewing Indian rock paintings on a bluff above the Concho River near Paint Rock, Texas, in 1934, the late Dallas artist Forrest Kirkland was seized with an idea. He wrote later, "Here was a veritable gallery of primitive art at the mercy of the elements and the hands of a destructive people. In a few more years only the hundreds of deeply carved names and smears of modern paint would remain to mark the site of the paintings left by the Indians...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292736762
• ISBN13: 9780292736764
• Release Date: January 1966
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 12.2"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding Reference

This is the definitive text on on the Pecos River area petroglyphs and is beautifully illustrated. A treasure.