Gordon Talmadge Wedmore Alexander Jr.

Gordon Talmadge Wedmore Alexander, Jr, a/k/a Val, born on Valentine’s Day 1939, went to meet his Creator on April 22, 2025. He is the son of Gordon W.T. Alexander Sr. and Margaret Mease Alexander, deceased.

Val was born in Corpus Christi, Texas. He was an extremely talented realistic artist and designer of elegant homes. Val was first taught to draw by his father and studied with Georgia Maverick Harris as a child. He taught himself to paint using oils and caseins as a young adult. Val attended Thomas Jefferson High School, San Antonio College, and The University of Texas, Austin, majoring in the History of the Middle East.

In 1965, he joined National Plywood Corporation in Austin as an architectural service representative and worked on The Metropolitan Opera, The Hancock Tower in Chicago, and The LBJ Library in Austin. His favorite San Antonio project was the AT&T Southwest Division Headquarters. After moving his young family to San Antonio, he began winning prizes for his paintings and exhibited in competitive art exhibitions in Texas. He became a member of The Men of Art Guild in 1964 and began to participate in San Antonio Art League and Museum exhibitions, winning The Onderdonk Purchase Prize twice in a row in 1971 and 1972.

In 1968, he opened Sol Del Rio Gallery on the Riverwalk during Hemisfair, and later owned and operated Sol Del Rio Folk Art Gallery at 1020 Townsend in San Antonio and sold it in 1973 to open his home design business. Val designed 52 residences in 40 years, mostly in San Antonio, Laredo, and South Texas.

Val will be fondly remembered as a prolific storyteller and a vast source of information, facts, and trivia involving just about everything. An avid collector, he is presumed to have left in a brown 60’s Chevy convertible, flying up to the Great Flea Market in the Sky. 

He is survived by his sons Gordon W.T. Alexander the third of Austin, Scott Charlton Alexander, former wife Anne Alexander of San Antonio; brother William Mease Alexander of California; friend and companion Terry Gay Puckett, and her children Augusta Brook Rosser, husband Steves Rosser, Ben Gallagher, and grand daughters Augusta Rosser and Isabel Rosser. 

A celebration of Val’s life will be forthcoming. Memorials are requested to be sent to The San Antonio Art League and Museum, 130 King William. San Antonio, Texas 78204.