HUGHES, Lester, (American, 20th C): Southwestern landscape with cowhands and cattle, O/C, 24'' x 36'', signed lower right. From El Paso, Texas, Lester Hughes is a self-taught artist who paints imaginative landscapes of the Southwest, often with horse-back riding cowboys intent on their duties. President Ronald Reagan purchased over a dozen paintings by Hughes, and some of them hung in the White House during Reagan's tenure.