Al Barnes
1937 – 2015
BORN IN
Cuero, Texas
KNOWN FOR
Landscape and coastal marsh painting, swimming fish, waterfowl, murals
Al Barnes was born in Cuero, Texas in 1937. His artistic course was set when he moved to Port Isabel when he was an elementary school student. He became enchanted with nautical life when a local ferry captain allowed him to freely ride and steer the vessel back and forth between South Padre Island and the mainland.
Barnes called Rockport-Fulton home for over forty years. In 1995, the Rockport Center for the Arts selected him as the Art Festival poster artist.
Barnes had numerous solo and group exhibitions. His works are in many private and corporate collections around the world, including the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi, the National Wildlife Museum in Jackson Hole, the American Museum of Fly Fishing, and Meredith Long and Company.
