Gary Carter, a 1971 graduate of the Art Center College of Design, was fortunate to study under exceptional instructors who inspired him to focus on painting the American West. During his early career, he formed lasting friendships with fellow artists...
Robert Farrington Elwell was born August 24, 1874 in Boston, Massachusetts. His father, Albion Elwell, was from New Hampshire, and his mother, Alice Farrington, was from Massachusetts. He was an only child. His father was a stone mason. He studied...
Born in San Leandro, California, Edward Borein became one of the most popular artists of western scene painting, equally adept at ink drawing, watercolor, and etching. He was raised in San Leandro, a western cow town, in a family where...
Robert E. Lougheed observed the natural world with careful intensity; he would frequently exclaim, “Isn’t it wonderful?” His love of nature shows in his exceptional paintings of the West, infused with realistic detail and vividness. Lougheed believed in the inherent...
Irvin “Shorty” Shope was born in Boulder, Montana in 1900 and died in Helena, Montana on November 22, 1977. He was a traditional western painter, illustrator, and muralist. Shope was a member of the Cowboy Artists of America from 1965....
Joseph Franklin De Yong was born in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. He had an immediate attraction to the cowboy way of life and when he was not at school he would help out a local ranches....
Born in a remote village of the Province of Quebec, Will James is a French Canadian whose birth name was Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault. As a youth he longed to become a cowboy. At the age of 15, he left...
Nicholas Samuel Firfires was born on the Waunakee Ranch near Santa Barbara, California November 10th, 1917. Firfires was a descendant of the Californios and vaqueros learned all the skills of working cowboys by living on the big ranches north of...
Cyrus Walker was born in Vermont during the month of January. He started to learn about art and the unique perspective it can provide. He studied under his Uncle who was an Art Director at a respectable advertising firm in...
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