Vogue, Oswald and Lech Walesa, Mysteries—New Orleans and The Exhibition are three works from Derek Boshier’s Texas Paintings (1980−93) series. As such they are emblematic of the aesthetic diversity characterizing his work from the 1980s. Derek Boshier moved to Houston from London in 1980 for a teaching post at the University of Houston. He had first come to prominence during the 1960s in London while still a student at the Royal College of Art, where he helped to launch the British Pop Art movement along with fellow students David Hockney, Allen Jones, R.B. Kitaj, and others. During the thirteen years that he spent in Texas, Boshier dove back into painting, a medium he had not focused on in England. Here he explored the subjects of cowboy mythology, pop culture and modern life, and the relationship between art and politics.