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Artist Carl Rice Embrey of San Antonio has produced a body of work that is unusual in its development and remarkable in its pursuit of a personal vision. Receiving his M.F.A. from the University of Texas in the mid-1960s, he began his career in an abstract expressionist style, then developed an expressionism in which representation returned, and finally arrived at a meticulous realism, in which abstraction plays a part. It has been a journey back to his place of origin, the landscape--both natural and human--of his ancestral home in Hamilton, Texas. Compared at times to Andrew Wyeth, with whom he shares stylistic affinities, Embrey does not, however, share Wyeth's emphasis on narrative quali...