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VERSO
Label, Maxwell Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles, California

In discussing this painting the artist wrote, “I was going up to Wyoming and photographing cowboys. For two or three days we were on the Continental Divide. It was very inspiring for me visually. When I came back, I wanted to paint what I had just experienced. I ended up painting mostly lonesome cowboys. My feeling is that the cowboy life is very lonesome. It’s a feeling of being far from world reality and having symbiosis with nature. There’s the beauty of that solitude as well as the hard part.

“I don’t want to mark a time period through the tack or gear – when you’re a specialist you know it is contemporary. But I want to stay on the iconic side of the West. That is what brought me to paint cowboys. That is what I have been fascinated with.”

PROVENANCE
Maxwell Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 2017
Private collection, Arizona

EXHIBITED
Lonesome Souls, Maxwell Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 2017

LITERATURE
Southwest Art, December 2017, illustrated

Condition ReportSurface is in excellent condition. No signs of restoration.

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