Tijerina will hold second Beasley book signing in San Antonio
Andres Tijerina addresses the crowd at earlier Beasley's book signing. For those who missed the earlier book signing of historian Andrés Tijerina’s Beasley’s Vaqueros , the author will be at the Twig Book Shop on Friday, December 16, beginning at 5 p.m. The bookstore is at 306 Pearl Parkway, Suite 106, in San Antonio For directions from your location, click here . Beasley’s Vaqueros presents the life and work of South Texas artist Ricardo Moreno Beasley. Between roughly 1940 and 1980, Beasley produced dozens of pen-and-ink drawings of working vaqueros, the Tejano cowboys of South Texas. His vibrant, action-packed scenes capture the joys of working with cattle, horses, and an often unforgiving landscape of cactus and mesquite. In addition to a selection of Beasley’s work, Tijerina collected and translated an extensive interview with the artist discussing several of his poems. Despite having lived much of his life after World War II, Beasley’s art and words capture a world in whi