Favorite Texas Artist
Dahlart Windberg
 
Dahlart Windberg began painting when he was a child on his parent's farm in Goliad, Texas. 
At his mother's urging, he sought the best art training in the area, first taking lessons from sister Mary Eligius, a Catholic sister in Goliad; 
Then with Mr. Simon Michaels in Rockport, where he studied seascape, landscape, still life 
and life drawing.
While he was in Mr. Michael's school, Windberg painted hundreds of shrimp boats and fishing
piers, oak trees and bluebonnets., fence posts and barns; although this was the same subject
matter for which he would later become well known, his efforts bore little resemblance to his
later work.
The experience that would ultimately cause him to embark upon the grueling odyssey toward
his present style occurred, ironically, thousands of miles from Texas. It was in the museums
of Europe, while he stood in awe before the classic, smooth canvas works of the old masters,
that the dynamics began. Windberg was thereafter driven by one all consuming passion, to paint
America in the style of the masters.
It proved far easier for him to dream than to do, for it seemed that  no one alive still knew the
master's techniques. There were no schools, no teachers, no books to light the way; But after
years of frustrating experimentation, something new and special began to happen. Although
his new look did resemble the technical style of the old masters, there was something else in it-
A quality uniquely Windberg. The world depicted in his paintings had soft edges, his forests held
no threat, his shadows, no evil. He was painting the world not as it was, but as it should be-
The way we all would like it to be.
His works embody a lifelong devotion to the classical technique and a gentle view of an often
harsh and weary world- a subtle combination which creates the unmistakable Windberg style.
 
 
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