Warren Hunter

The artist shared his name with his grandfather, John Warren Hunter, J. Marvin Hunter's father. The elder Hunter was born in Rogersville, Alabama, in 1846 and came to Texas as a boy. He would not fight for the Confederacy after soldiers hanged a friend of his, nor against the South, so he hauled cotton to Brownsville and waited out the war in Matamoros; he told of it in Heel-Fly Time in Texas. He taught frontier schools around Gillespie County, ran the Mason Herald from 1892 and wrote Rise and Fall of Mission San Saba in 1905.

What the plaque says

Warren Hunter Artist John Warren Hunter (1903-93), son of J. Marvin Hunter, was born in Kimble County and known for his scenic depictions of Texas. A 1923 graduate of Bandera High School, he soon began printing the Harper Herald with his wife Lora. After attending the Chicago Art Institute and serving in cartographic services during World War II, he opened the Hunter School of Art in San Antonio. He also taught at the San Antonio Art Institute, becoming dean in 1950. Many of his works, including woodblock and linoleum prints, paintings, commercial illustrations and copper etchings, have been widely collected and displayed in such places as the Smithsonian Institution, White House, Alamo, and San Jacinto Monument. (2007)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Frontier Times Museum — steps away
  A museum built of fossils, petrified wood and cave formations in Bandera, holding a printer-historian's collection of frontier relics and oddities.
• Treue der Union Monument — 19 mi
  An 1866 German-language monument in Comfort over the graves of Hill Country Unionists killed at the Nueces in 1862, its flag of thirty-six stars kept at half-staff.
• Schreiner Mansion — 22 mi
  The 1879 downtown home of Charles Schreiner, the Alsatian-born merchant, banker and rancher whose store and mohair trade built Kerrville.

More markers nearby

• Bandera, "Cowboy Capital of the World" — steps away
• Great Western Cattle Trail — steps away
• Camp Montel, C.S.A. — steps away
• Mormon Settlers in Bandera County — steps away