As a kid, I grew up with television shows like Bonanza and Gunsmoke. I carried a Wild, Wild West lunchbox to school in the first grade in Dallas. I watched western films like Cat Ballou, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Big Jake and The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance with my father. From 2021 to 2024, I painted about a hundred neowestern paintings of cowboys and natives as they were depicted in media, perpetuating the myth of western icons in a positive light.
“Festus Hagen - Gunsmoke”
“Matt Dillon - Gunsmoke”
