Landscapes were the hot topic and drew the highest bidders at an auction of Texas art Saturday at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary.

A lecture in the afternoon by Richard G. Cook on Spindletop and wildcatter Patillo Higgins kicked off the bidding.

Sponsored by David Dike Fine Art, the auction corralled more than 400 works for sale, most of which were paintings.

Top sellers included two paintings of a rock quarry in San Antonio.

Rock Quarry, San Antonio, Texas, an impressionist landscape by the 19th-century Spanish painter José Arpa, went for $245,000.

San Antonio native Julian Onderdonk's In the Rock Quarry, San Antonio, TX (1910), which depicts a vivid blue sky, two wood-frame structures and an almost faceless little girl holding a toddler, sold for $100,000.

Charissa N. Terranova