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Humanscape Paintings
Humanscape #2, 1965, acrylic on canvas, 40x60", Casas Family Collection.

Humanscape #15, 1966, acrylic on canvas, 60x72", Casas Family Collection.

Humanscape #36, 1967, acrylic on canvas, 6x8’, Casas Family Collection.

Humanscape #39, 1967, acrylic on canvas, 6x8’, Casas Family Collection.

Humanscape #47 (Still Life), 1968, acrylic on canvas, 6x8’, Casas Family Collection.

Humanscape #50 (Bare Baby Brick), 1968, acrylic on canvas, 6x8’, Casas Family Collection.

Humanscape #51 (Still Life), 1969, acrylic on canvas, 6x8’, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Humanscape #56 (San Antonio Circus '69), 1969, acrylic on canvas, 6x8’, Casas Family Collection.

Humanscape #62 (Brownies of the Southwest), 1970, acrylic on canvas, 6x8, Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Humanscape #63 (A Show of Hands), 1970, acrylic on canvas, 6x8’, Casas Family Collection.

Humanscape #65 (New Horizons), 1971, acrylic on canvas, 6x8’, James Harithas Collection.

Humanscape #68 (Kitchen Spanish), 1973, acrylic on canvas, 6x8’, Casas Family Collection.

Humanscape #70 (Comic Whitewash), 1973, acrylic on canvas, 6x8’, Collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Humanscape #83 (Teaching a Young Dog Old Tricks), 1976, acrylic on canvas, 6x8’, Casas Family Collection.

Humanscape #97 (Art is Not a Word), 1978, acrylic on canvas, 6x8’, Casas Family Collection.

Humanscape #118 (Texas Fantasy), 1982, acrylic on canvas, 6x8’, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio.

Humanscape #140 (Day of the Muertos), 1987, acrylic on canvas, 6x8’, Casas Family Collection.

Humanscape #145 (SW Cliche), 1987, acrylic on canvas, 6x8’, Casas Family Collection.

Humanscape #147 (Alamo), 1987, acrylic on canvas, 6x8’, Casas Family Collection.

Humanscape #148 (Texas T'ang), 1988, acrylic on canvas, 6x8’, Casas Family Collection.

Post-Humanscape Paintings
Southwest Apple, 1990, acrylic on canvas, 24x24", Casas Family Collection.

Captain America, 1991, acrylic on canvas, 24x24”, Casas Family Collection.

Weekend Talls, 2000, #19, 18x20”, Casas Family Collection.

Fever Pitch, 2005, #39, acrylic on canvas, 16x20”, Casas Family Collection.

Hot Lipstick, 2005, #33, acrylic on canvas, 22x24”, Casas Family Collection.

A Good Indian is a Nickel Indian, 2006, acrylic on canvas, 24x24”, Casas Family Collection.

X-ed (aka) Censored, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 10x10”, Casas Family Collection.

Vanishing Icon, 2009, #75, acrylic on canvas, 24x30”, Casas Family Collection.

Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men? The Shadow Knows, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 16x20”, Casas Family Collection.

Quotes
"To me, being an outsider is the next thing to being an artist. I think we are lucky to be born outsiders. The other thing, however, is this. You think that, because you eat tortillas and you think in Spanish or in the Mexican tradition, you can identify yourself. I don't think it's quite true. First of all, because we use liquitex, and we use canvas, and we use stretcher boards. 'No usamos bastidores o manta.' So we are a mixture. So there is no sense in trying to say that we have that kind of purity. We are entirely different. We are neither Mexican nor Anglos. We are in between."

"I don't think we should break away from our tradition. We cannot deny it. It will tend to flavor, to color the way we think. I think linguistically and iconographically we will tend to mix the two. I have to my benefit that I can combine English and Spanish to give a more colorful expression than I would if I said it all in English or all in Spanish. The subtlety of the meanings, the syntax, or the pronunciation of the words give it something that is missing." 19h00s (talk) 23:56, 8 March 2024 (UTC)