Texican Alamo defender original limited edition Intaglio commissioned

This work was commissioned by the Alamo historic site as the master artwork for production of the life sized standing figures that for many decades graced the entrance to the Long Barracks Museum.

The original artwork was a zinc plate intaglio etching, with approximately 14 total prints created for presentation to the Alamo's Board of Trustees and for the Alamo's collection.

This is one of two life-sized figures created and shown, the other of one of the Alamo Mexican soldiers. The original plates from which the dozen plus prints were pulled were both destroyed in a mid 1980s flood of the San Marcos River which inundated Dan's home studio at the time while he was employed as a exhibit and graphic designer for the San Antonio's Museum Association. While the original short lived limited edition of intalio prints are all in private or public collections, the works were documented by Dan photographically which permits the offering of new prints for the public and collectors of the original works.

Dan worked closely during the process of creating the original drawings prior to creation of the intaglio plate, with the Alamo's curatorial team in insure the accuracy of the uniforms and weapons used at the battle.

This work and it's Mexican soldier matching work, have both been published in the ALAMO, LONG BARRACKS MUSEUM book (as well as for an Alamo created coloring book for visiting school children with hundreds of thousands of the coloring books given to the children during their school field trip. Interestingly, the only changes made to the artwork in those children's coloring books was the removal of Dan's signature and copyright notice discovered when one of Dan's own children was given one of the books on one of those field trips. While the Alamo admitted that the coloring book art did delete the artist's name and copyright notice, the attorney firm representing the Alamo correctly strategized that the artist at the time could not afford the drawn out legal battle to prove copyright infringement in the courts estimated to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. So hundreds of thousands of Alamo visitors were denied knowing the name of the artist who created the original works and the hoped for recognition that would have made Dan Terry reknown widely decades earlier.

In fact, the Alamo fiasco is instrumental in why for the next 25 years, Dan would completely abandon painting & exhibition artwork not picking up another paint brush until the 21st century.

This and the other Alamo figure artwork were so accurate that when Ron Howard shot his version of the Alamo story on film, they became the primary reference materials for the costuming and props department.