Where'd we go?

Yes, things have been very quiet around The Breen Gallery. But we haven't gone anywhere. We're finally listing Bud's paintings in Our Etsy Store again, including the original below.


Above is "Supply Wagon," a 30" x 24" oil painting by Bud Breen. If you click on the image to see it enlarged, you'll see stars! The clouds pick up some amazing light and color from the moon in this piece. And the soldier's faces and clothing are carefully detailed.

Tularosa Road

Click here to read the history of Tularosa. Tularosa road is 15 miles north of Brackettville, TX and its landscape is as much a part of Bud's work as Brackettville and
Eagle Pass. Tularosa is barely a blip in the annals of history, but it's a lovely place all the same. People have been hunting deer, and raising cattle and sheep in the Tularosa area since the late 1800's. Although, before that, this land belonged to the ancestors of Bud's wife, Nakai.

But Brackettville's history began in the mid-1800's. You can read about Brackettville's history by clicking here. Bud Breen wasn't just an artist, he was a historian. He educated himself thoroughly on the history of the area. You can learn about Brackettville's history and the history of much of southwest Texas just by looking at his paintings of the old west.

Business at the Bank -- Bud Breen

This Bud Breen original is listed in our Etsy store.

In Business at the Bank, on the right side, you can see a second building. The second building is Jewel's (Breen Gallery owner) current office and housed The Brackett News for 17 years with her as publisher. In the above photograph I tried to capture the scene that Bud painted as it stands today. Do you see that cannon on the left in the photograph? That marks where Brackettville's bank actually stood in the 1800's. The structure behind the cannon is The Bank & Trust and was built after the original bank was torn down. Our building was once a two story structure as you can see below. It was Brackettville's post office.

Above: a view from just past the bank. The first building on the left is our office, the original post office in Brackettville. Aplogies for the quality of the above two images, I had to shoot them through glass as I couldn't remove them from their frame.

Above: A photograph taken today from the same angle as the 1800's photograph above. You can see that our building is no longer two stories. The building past it still stands and the top floor serves as the local Masonic Lodge. Some of the structures on the right side of the street are still standing as well... more or less.