DALLAS, TX.- Exceptional examples by Texas' most important plein air artists, including Autumn on River by José Arpa y Perea (est. $20,000-30,000) and Alexandre Hogue's Glen Rose, 1926(est. $20,000-30,000), will cross the block Nov. 18 at Heritage Auctions. The firm's fall Texas Art Auction offers several fresh-to-market masterworks and highly-sough-after contemporary art.

"Punctuated with a mix of classic and contemporary, this auction presents admirers of Texas art rare and noteworthy selections appealing to every range of collector," said Atlee Phillips, director of Texas Art at Heritage Auctions.

In Autumn on River, Perea's talent is on full display with his tactical use of heavy impasto to render the boulders and leaves juxtaposed against his delicate brush in the rendering of a Texas stream. His subtle use of color and light makes the painting an iconic example of his style.

From the recognized collection of Mildred McKnight, Alexandre Hogue's Glen Rose, 1926, makes its auction debut. His approach to Texas' "steep bluffs, big trees, and wooded hills" is fully represented with deft, broad slashes of paint turning the landscape into a collage of two-dimensional geometric masses.

Fishermen, 1921(est. $10,000-15,000), a unique work by Paul Richard Schumann, is a tour de force in the artist's oeuvre, according to Texas art scholar and curator, Michael Grauer. In Fishermen, marks a departure in the artist's usual approach to Gulf Coast paintings. Originally seen simply as a painter of souvenirs for tourists of the Galveston coast, today Schumann's skill in handing the palette knife in particular continues to attract notice by scholars and collectors.

Classic Hill Country landscapes include Springtime in Texas by Robert William Wood (est. $15,000-20,000) and Hill Country in the Fall, 1967, by Porfirio Salinas (est. $12,000-18,000).

Vistas of Texas' spring countryside offers A Field of Blue Bonnets, San Antonio, Texas, 1921 ($10,000-15,000) by Julian Onderdonk amid a selection of bluebonnet oils such as Robert William Wood's Springtime in Texas (est. $15,000-20,000) and Bluebonnet Time (est. $15,000-25,000).

Contemporary compositions by Kelly Fearing consigned directly from his estate includes The Elephants Walking Towards a Fountain (est. $7,000-9,000) as well as Back Lot Rehearsal, 1941 (est. $6,000-8,000), a rare early work representing important themes he would revisit through his entire career.

Valton Tyler, whose art exists firmly outside traditional Texas landscapes, presents collectors with a postmodernist and conceptualist oil. In Red Blue + Green, 1984 (est. $3,000-5,000), the artist's European Surrealist influence sharply depicts articulated curvilinear objects that seem to float in a barren desert landscape similar to Salvador Dali.