Known for his highly realistic still life subject matter, often combining objects of the present and the past, William Acheff became a resident of northern New Mexico where he has his studio in his home. He was born in Alaska…
Charles Partridge
Adams, a Colorado landscape painter, produced a small, nonetheless imperatively
substantial 20th century body of work of the Teton Range on the
Wyoming side of the state's border with Idaho. William H. Goetzmann writes in
chapter eighteen of…
William Ahrendt was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1933. He holds a Masters degree in Art History from Arizona State University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art where he won the…
Inspired by the sagebrush and wide open horizons of Wyoming and Montana, Clyde Aspevig is a landscape painter who sketches on location and finishes the work in his studio. Although he was trained to be an art educator, he has…
A founder in 1898
of the Taos Society of Artists, Oscar Berninghaus excelled at drawing animals
and figures in contemporary garb in Southwestern landscapes. Many of his early
paintings were Impressionistic, "suffused with color and light". (Gerdts
254)
He was…
A noted watercolor painter of western scenes and member of the Cowboy Artists of America, James Boren was born in Waxahatchie, Texas, the son of a minister. He knew as a teenager that he wanted to be an illustrator but…
George Browne was
recognized in the mid-1950s as a sporting artist of the first rank, the
ascendant star among American wildlife painters of his generation. His oils of
waterfowl and upland game birds in flight were compared favorably to the…
A painter of western subjects, Shawn Cameron has ranching heritage that goes back many generations. Her family has been chronicled on the pages of Arizona history books. Her paternal grandparents drove cattle down the Oregon Trail into Arizona in the…
Ken Carlson, like many of his contemporaries, began his career in art as a commercial artist. He entered a "Draw Me" contest at the age of fifteen, won and took advantage of the prize, a two-year scholarship to the Art…
Raised in Lander, Wyoming, Scott Christensen settled in Jackson and became a successful painter at an early age. However, he never began painting until he was in college, but he credits his basic interest to seeing his wheel-chair bound grandfather…
John is a member of the prestigious Cowboy Artists of America and the National Sculpture Society who most often portrays subject matter based on Native American imagery. He has a distinctive style of capturing a mood and incorporating a type…
Born in Saginaw,
Michigan, Eanger Couse is primarily known for Taos Pueblo Indian males sitting
or squatting by camp fire light, suggesting that Indians were peaceful,
dignified human beings and not the savages of Western lore.
Growing up in
Saginaw,…
Son of an artist and opera singer, he painted from his childhood days in Chicago. After high school, he went to New York City, then enlisted in the Navy Air Corp before moving to the West Coast. In Los Angeles,…
Stan Davis, born in 1942, with extensive experience in advertising agencies, is an illustrator in oil of 19th-century Blackfoot, Sioux and Cheyenne Indians. In an attempt to ensure historical and cultural accuracy, Davis makes every costume used in his paintings.Raised…
Born in Salt Lake
City, Robert Duncan became a representational painter of western figure, genre,
and landscape and settled in Midway, Utah in 1976.
He spent most of
his youth on family ranches in the upper Green River area of…
Born on a
farm near Augusta, Maine, W. Herbert Dunton became a leading American
illustrator and renowned painter in the early art colony of Taos, New
Mexico. His specialty was painting the untamed West before it
disappeared.
Especially
helpful to…
Born in Gauting, Bavaria, Nick Eggenhofer became a painter of the romance of the American West with its cowboys and Indians. He has a reputation for historical accuracy from careful research and also as an authority about frontier western transportation.…
Daniel Gerhartz was born in 1965 in Wisconsin where he now lives with his wife Jennifer and their children. His interest in art piqued at an early age when a teenage friend suggested they spend one dreary afternoon drawing. It…
A sculptor of various sizes, including monumental bronzes of Indian figures, Richard Greeves was born and grew up in an Italian neighborhood in St. Louis where he lived in his words, a "Huck Finn childhood." At age 15, he met…
Born in New York City and then settling in Scottsdale, Arizona, John (Johnny) Hampton became a renowned painter and sculptor of cowboy life that he grew to know first hand from living much of his life in the Southwest. He…
G. Harvey grew up in the Texas Hill country listening to his father and grandfather relate stories to him about ranch life, the old frontier days in Texas and driving cattle across the Red River. During the earlier part of…
Born
in Cincinnati, Ohio, John Hauser was one of several early 20th-century Ohio
artists known for paintings of Western Indians. His birth date is given
as both 1858 and 1859. He is given credit for doing much to educate
Americans…
Bill Hughes was born in
1932 and he was drawn to art at a young age. “It was something I knew all
along. I knew I was going to do art.” A native of Ohio, Hughes attended the
University of…
Modernism, realism, and a passion for the West are all strongly in Harry Jackson's blood. Born in Chicago in 1924, he ran away from home at age fourteen to become a cowboy and managed to get to Wyoming. He stopped…
Oreland Joe is a world-renowned for his work in stone and bronze sculptures. His works can be found in private, corporate and museum collections in the United States and abroad. Oreland is a native New Mexican and is of Navajo…
Born
near Big Grove, Iowa, Frank Tenney Johnson, became one of the most famous early
20th-century painters of Western genre.
He
was raised on a farm on the old Overland Trail where he observed western
migration of people on horseback,…
Joffa
attended the University of Oklahoma where she studied interior design and
painting. She eventually became interested in three-dimensional art after
studying with noted sculptors at the Scottsdale Artists School. She lives
in the area of the Tetons in Wyoming…
Zhuo Shu Liang was born in 1953 in China and raised in a family of artists. His first painting was published in China Children’s Magazine at the age of 6. Before coming to the United States in 1982, he studied realism-style painting…
Jeremy Lipking
resides in Calabasas, California. He attended the California Art Institute in
Westlake Village where he now teaches.
Jeremy Lipking found
immediate success and respect in the art market when he brought his first
paintings to sale in 2000.…
Western painter and illustrator known for depictions of plains Indians in action, Frank McCarthy spent much of his career in New York City and the last years in Arizona. He was born in New York City and for twenty-one years…
Known for highly realistic Indian portraits with rich skin tones as well as Southwest and California desert landscape paintings, R Brownell McGrew showed early art talent in his home town and birth place of Columbus, Ohio. He moved to California…
A representational oil painter of cowboys, both historic and contemporary, Dan Mieduch has lived in Arizona since 1975. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, and was drawing by the age of seven. During high school, he took night art classes…
Education:
Washington University of St.Louis (School of Fine Art)
Carnegie Mellon (then Carnegie Institute)Kansas City Art Institute Professional Organizations: Plein Aire Painters of AmericaSalmagundi ClubArizona Artists GuildMajor Artistic influences: Taos Painters of 30s', 40s',and Maynard Dixon, Edgar Payne, Edward Hopper. Awards: 16 awards in just…
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, John Moyers became a noted painter of western subjects. He was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico and was exposed to fine art from an early age because his father, Bill Moyers, was a professional painter and…
Raised
in Alberta and British Columbia, where her father raised quarter horses, Terri
Moyers and husband John Moyers live just outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico. In
Canada, her early art influence was Carl Rungius. Later she became a student…
John
Nieto calls himself an American artist who paints Indians, not an Indian
artist. An acclaimed leader of his field, but taking a separate path to
represent Native Americans in striking symbolic portraits, Nieto is exhibited
worldwide and has had…
Ogden
Pleissner was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1905. When he was eleven a friend
gave him a paint box filled with all the colors in the world. His father was
very interested in the arts, especially music, and…
An impressionist oil painter of scenes of the Old West, he was inspired by the work of Frederic Remington, N.C. Wyeth, and John Singer Sargent as well as the Dutch Old Masters and the French Impressionists. He was born in…
A member of the American Indian and Cowboy Artists Association, Alfredo Rodriguez established a studio in Corona, California. His rich and vivid colors depict scenes of the inhabitants of the American West: Indians, Mountain Men, Cowboys, nestled in the mountains,…
An illustrator and fine art painter specializing in female nude figure, Howard Rogers grew up in San Diego, California the child of a cobbler and department store clerk who encouraged him at a young age to pursue his talents. As…
Born
near Berlin, Germany, Carl Rungius became one of America's most noted wildlife
artists, usually working in plein air or directly from nature. His
grandfather was a taxidermist and animal hunter, which gave him early exposure
to this subject matter. …
Schwiering lived until January 1986, and during those last years of his life he enjoyed considerable artistic success and acknowledgment of his achievements as a landscape artist.For example, in 1981 he was recognized by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame…
Considered
a transition painter between those of the Old West such as Remington and
Russell to a later generation that painted only myth and imaginative work, Olaf
Seltzer arrived in Great Falls, Montana in 1897, at the age of nineteen.…
Born in Bridgeport, Ohio, Joseph Sharp was regarded as the "father of the Taos Art Colony," and was known for his Indian figure and genre painting as well as for exquisitely colorful landscapes. He was one of the first Caucasian…
Mian Situ was born in the South of China and grew up during the Mao Cultural Revolution. The turmoil of the Mao regime inadvertently fostered a career that Situ could not have anticipated. Unlike so many artists who know early on…
Matthew Smith was born in Kansas City, Missouri in
1960, and at the age of three moved with his family to Scottsdale, Arizona.
Later, they moved to Europe where they lived two years in France and one in
Switzerland. In…
A
member of the Cowboy Artists of America and the American Watercolor Society,
Ray Swanson was known for his Southwest Native American subject--the Navajo,
Hopi, Zuni and Apache Indians. He was especially known for depicting
children and smaller animals belonging…
Born in
Oak Park, Illinois and receiving his art education at the Chicago Academy of
Fine Art and the American Academy of Art, Howard Terpning became one of the
best known and financially successful members of the Cowboy Artists of…
A native Californian, Jerry Venditti is a painter of trompe l'oeil still life of Southwest motifs and also a painter of landscapes. He is a first generation Italian American who grew up in the Bay area, and he and his…
Fritz White was
born January 14, 1930 in Milford, Ohio near Cincinnati. The Little Miami River,
which borders Cincinnati on the east, was a main thoroughfare north and south
for the Shawnee tribes that were settled throughout Ohio.…
Born in Viborg, Denmark, Olaf Wieghorst was a child acrobatic performer from the age of nine when he began appearances at Tivoli Theater in Copenhagen and later toured Europe. He also learned horseback riding working on a stock farm, and…
“The values, concerns
and life of a society are reflected in the art of that society. In reality the
artist is the soul of a society. Thus, a work of art must expand beyond the
image to a timeless message…
