The Three Crosses

Three crosses and the skull and crossbones allude to the New Testament narrative of the Crucifixion of Christ and the two thieves; however, the stark landscape with barbed wire is not Golgotha, the place of Christ’s execution, but is recognizably Texas.This painting is one of several works chosen to represent Texas at the “American Art Today” exhibition of the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Born in Graham,Texas, west of Dallas,William Lester moved to the city in 1924, where he studied with Alexandre Hogue, Thomas Stell, and Olin Travis, eventually becoming one of the city’s leading artists. Besides exhibiting at the 1936 Texas Centennial, Lester taught at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts in the early 1940s before becoming a highly successful teacher at The University of Texas at Austin.

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