Janet Krueger

Janet Eager Krueger (born August 27, 1952) is an artist known for her large-scale oil paintings of South Texas ranching life. She is a retired associate professor of art at Texas A&M International University in Laredo and lives on a ranch in nearby Encinal, Texas, in the southwestern corner of La Salle County just north of the Webb County line.

Krueger's mother Betty was herself a watercolors artist. Her paternal aunt, Grace Eager, was a zoological painter in the 1940s. Krueger graduated from Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio. In 1975, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in art history from the University of Texas at Austin. She then became the artist-in-residence for the College Station school district and then the slide curator for the architecture department at Texas A&M University in College Station.

In 1980, she moved to Encinal, population 650, after she married her high school classmate, George C. Krueger (born 1951). The couple has two grown children, Will and Kate. For a time, Krueger devoted herself to ranch life and worked for a large-animal veterinarian in San Antonio. Thereafter, Krueger became an art instructor at Laredo Community College. She then pursued her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at San Antonio in the late 1990s. She worked under the art professor and landscape artist Charles Field. In time, she joined the TAMIU faculty.