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- List of CAB Artwork
- Eternal Sunshine
- Fertile Dreams
- El-Icecrinero-Sculpture
- Casa Rio & Grocer
- El Icecrinero
- Portrait of Henry Cisneros
- Nazi Youth
- Lesson Learned
- Allegience
- Holocaust Remembered #2
- Chili Queens
- Azuelos de la Alhambra
- Black Jesus and Doubtful
- Mood...AF
- Mission Concepción
- Let the Children Play
- Mission San Juan
- Mission Espada
- Las Mananitas de Mi Madre
- icecreamero
- Mission San Jose
- Seeing Double On My Mind
- The Alamo Mission
- garden-aviary-verde-on-my-mind
- The Flame of Reflection
- Ranunculus
- Nopalitos
- The Wise Man
- Playland
- Three Kings
- The Offerings
- Quatro Vaqueros
- Senora Lopez
- Still Life with Bottle, Flowers and Teapot
- River Trailblazer
- El Maestro
- Portrait of Sandra Cisneros
- Reflections
- Amigos de la Antorcha
- Los Trompos
- Olivia's Offering
- Portrait of Reverend Claude Black
- Viaje de Caracter
- Still Life with Spring Flowers
- El Guapo
- Tablescape with Spring Bouquet, Fruit and Green Bottle
- Ranunculus III
- A life in the Darkness
- Mujer en Morado
- Torre de Los Suenos (Tower of Dreams)
- El Gallo
- The Cellist
- Portrait of Mission Espada
- Portrait of Restaurateur Raul Jimenez
- Recuerdos del Colegio
- For the Living and for the Dead
- Dawn, 2014
- Jacks
- Chili Lillies
- Arcos del Conocimiento
- Como Hermanos
- Portrait of Mission Concepción
- La Soldadera
- Ranunculus II
- jardin-azul-on-my-mind
- Shoe Shine Boy
- Nuptails, 2014
- Portrait of David Robinson
- Pomegranates
- Part of the Community
- Abstract Cross
- jaguar-on-my-shoulder
- Chase the Rainbow
- Portrait of the Alamo
- leaders
- State Senator Carlos Uresti
- Music in a Dream
- cross-stained-glass-theme
- Alhambra
- Mission Concepcion
- Monessa's Light, 2015
- Amigas
- Dr. Maria Hernandez Ferrier
- Mariachis on my Mind
- Mariachi Violinista
- Inaugural Building
- Mariachi Group
- Campus at Dawn, Retrospective
- Portrait of Linda Pace, Art Patroness
- Blackie
- Dusk, 2014
Los Trompos
The Works of Joe R. Villarreal
Joe R. Villarreal (American, b. 1953)
Los Trompos
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated ‘96, l.r.
5 x 5 feet
Los Trompos or The Tops depicts, by far, the artist’s favorite childhood pastime. Running home from school he would excitedly wait for friends to gather and then compete with their fiercest tops. Throws were precise and sometimes done overhand. The ground would be pocked from the strike of the tops and the winner would walk away with his competitor’s top. The painting is a document of the daily life of Mexican American children a half century ago.