Still Life, oil on canvas, 18 x 24, signed lower right: L Buchanan, Although still life scenes have a long tradition in providing opportunities for artists to demonstrate technique, Buchanan’s quiet floral also bespeaks an attention to compositional arrangement and color theory. Buchanan was born in Georgia and grew up in Waxahachie, Texas. Her artistic pursuits led her to study commercial design in New York City, after which she landed in Dallas and painted alongside prominent Texas painter, Frank Reaugh (American, 1860-1945) and Dallas cartoonist, John Francis Knott (Czech-American, 1878-1963). Buchanan also worked for Holland’s Magazine (1876-1953) in Texas, painting cover illustrations, and would eventually settle in Durant, Oklahoma, in 1956.