January 11, 2018
Santos Barbosa was born and raised in McAllen, Texas. He has resided in Tucson since the 1960’s. He has drawn sketches of people and places since he was a young man. While he has taken a few art classes as an adult, he is...
September 1, 2016
Joni Falk, realist painter of still life and landscapes, has lived in Phoenix, Arizona since 1960. She grew up in Chicago, and is a graduate of of Marquette University In Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The southwest culture and history provided...
January 7, 2015
While still in high school, Bill met Terrance Duren, a well-known New York illustrator, who had retired to his native Nebraska. Duren saw some of Bill's drawings at a local art show and offered to teach him the fundamentals...
August 19, 2014
Don Crowley is one of the best known painters of the contemporary Indian, preferring to paint the Apache and Paiute. From his earliest years, his major art interests were concerned with...
August 19, 2014
Buck McCain is the 33rd artist to be recognized in what is now a Tucson tradition, started by the Tucson Festival Society in 1974, and carried on by Friends of Western Art. McCain, born in...
August 19, 2014
Janice P. Smith is a painter from Sierra Vista, Arizona. She received a Friends of Western Art scholarship to attend the Ray Roberts Portrait Workshop. During the Workshop, Roberts...
August 19, 2014
The Navajo have a special place in his heart and finger tips. "The most exciting, stimulating, and challenging paintings I do are portraits of the older Navajo folks. The lines in their faces reflect more...
August 18, 2014
Tim Cox was born in Safford, Arizona - a fourth generation westerner, he was raised on a property just outside of Duncan, Arizona. Tim began drawing at an early age and his parents...
August 18, 2014
Fred Fellows is a two-time past president of the world famous Cowboy Artists of America. His work has won many awards including the Grumbacher Fine Arts Award and...