The Frontier Times Museum is celebrating a special Texas Heroes Hall of Honor this year by inducting nationally known watercolorist Susie Short as the lone 2024 inductee into the Hall of Honor.
This year’s ceremony will be held on Friday, April 19, in conjunction with the exhibit opening of a retrospective of Susie Short Watercolors spanning fifty years of paintings.
Established in 2009, the Texas Heroes Hall of Honor honors Texans who have exemplified what it means to be a great Texan and to embody the spirit of Texas. Past inductees have included Kinky Friedman, Gary P. Nunn, J. Frank Dobie, Guich Koock and Leon Coffee.
Susie is a country girl at heart. She grew up in Bandera and easily refers to Bandera as her hometown.
Two of her great-grandfathers were well known pioneers in Bandera; J.W. Short was a rancher and banker at First State Bank, and J. Marvin Hunter Sr. was a newspaperman and founder of the Bandera Bulletin and the Frontier Times Museum.
Susie got her education in Bandera public schools.
She was active in 4H on judging teams and competed annually in the junior livestock shows. She was the first girl to take vocational-agriculture at Bandera High School.
During her high school years, she discovered her love for art and painting. In her junior and senior years of high school, she studied watercolor painting at the Hunter School of Art in San Antonio, with Warren Hunter, son of J. Marvin Hunter and her great-uncle.
