The Painted West - Group Artist Show at Legacy Gallery

The Painted West

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The Painted West Show & Sale • S c ot tsdale, AZ February 12th -21st, 2021 “Western Art in Today’s World” a panel discussion with western art’s top artists Saturday, February 13th • 10:00 am

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Artists’ Reception & Sale Saturday, February 13th 5:00 - 7:00 pm draw will start at 6:30 pm

Sale will be conducted by draw or silent auction.

Those in attendance at the opening will be given preference on the sale of selected items.

Please contact the gallery for more details, (480) 945-1113.

Cover: John Moyers Quiet Time 36" x 36" Oil

Born on January 16, 1974, Kyle Polzin grew up in South Texas, and began developing his artistic skills at a young age under the guidance of his father. Brought up around horses and the Gulf coast, Kyle grew to appreciate the beauty and heritage of his Texas surroundings which is reflected in his art. He worked closely with his grandfathers who were both skilled carpenters, and through their teachings, learned the value of craftsmanship and the reward of creating with your hands.

In 1992 Kyle began his formal training in fine art at Victoria College with emphasis in oil painting. During this time, he participated in instructional sessions under Dalhart Windberg, whose work has influenced him since boyhood. After college Kyle worked as a graphic artist and web designer while painting in his free time. As his popularity and success as a painter grew, he switched to painting full time in 2000.

Kyle received the Express Ranches Great American Cowboy Award at the 2013 Prix de West in Oklahoma City, and the Don B. Huntley Spirit of the West Award, given in recognition of the most outstanding work in cowboy subject matter for three years in a row at the Autry National Center’s Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition and Sale. He has had numerous sold out shows and his work has been featured in Art of the West, Southwest Art, Western Art Collector, Texas Outdoors Journal, and numerous other publications. He currently resides in Austin, Texas with his wife Leigh along with their two young daughters.

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Kyle Polzin

Pride of the Plains 21" x 18" Oil

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Navajo Blankets 40" x 40" Oil

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John Moyers Moyers grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the son of Cowboy Artists of America painter, William Moyers. He had a natural affinity for art, and he grew up surrounded by paintings and sculpture during his formative years. He studied at the Laguna Beach School of Art and the California Institute for the Arts on a Walt Disney Studio scholarship. It was in 1979 that Moyers was invited to attend a month-long workshop at the Okanagan Game Farm in British Columbia, led

by Cowboy Artist, Robert Lougheed. These workshops were one of few places where an artist could study traditional techniques for painting wild animals from real life. That workshop proved to be a turning point for Moyers and his art. The experience of painting ‘en plein air’ day after day was a truly eye-opening experience in the way he approached a subject and in the way he captured it on canvas. The workshop was also where he met his future wife and fellow artist, Terri.

In the ensuing years Moyer’s career has progressed steadily, earning him recognition at the Prix de West Show at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, OK, and at the Masters of the American West Show at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, CA. Having been a member of the Cowboy Artists of America since 1994 and served as president of the group, he also exhibits at the annual Cowboy Artists of America show at the Phoenix Art Museum. He has received top awards for more than seven years running at the CAA exhibitions in both oil and water soluble media.

Moyers and his wife, Terri, live and paint in California, while continuing to make annual pilgrimages to Canada where they never fail to be inspired by the rugged beauty of the northern landscapes of the American continent. Moyers also paints en plein air in Hawaii, a land that has captivated his interest since his youth.

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Abstract Shapes 40" x 24" Oil

Eye to Eye 30" x 36" Oil

Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Bill Anton became a western painter, especially of the lifestyle of cowboys. He first traveled West at age seven. He attended Loyola University in Chicago and then transferred to Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, majoring in English. He settled in Arizona, and his wife, Peggy, supported him while he established his career as an artist.

He was inspired with western painting when he attended a Cowboy Artists of America show in the late 1970s at the Phoenix Art Museum. In 1982, he turned to art full time, and visiting ranches in Flagstaff and Prescott, he rode in roundups and learned to work with cattle. He also developed a love of plein-air painting and was much inspired by the work of Anders Zorn, Edgar Payne and Frank Tenney Johnson.

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Bill Anton

The Wanderers 40" x 36" Oil

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Glenn Dean’s childhood interest in art matured into a love of painting landscapes by his early twenties. Exposure to the California and Western landscape painters of the early 1900’s had a great influence on the young artist, and directed the course of his career early on. In the works of such masters as Edgar Payne and Maynard Dixon, Dean saw the “importance of seeing the color of light” while “carefully observing the simple and basic characteristics of a specific location.”

Largely a self-taught Artist, Dean has a passion and joy for discovering answers to the complexities found in the works of those past masters and continues to strive for a similar quality in his own work. In recent years, Dean has turned his attention to the figure within the landscape as he brings the figure closer to the forefront. It is the relationship between the figure and his surroundings which intrigues Dean.

Dean gained recognition early in his career. Dean has won a number of awards including his most recent, the 2018 Henry Farny Award for Best Painting at the Eiteljorg Museum’s Quest for the West Art Show and Sale. In 2017, Glenn won the Artist’s Choice Award at Quest for the West, and in 2016 at Quest for the West, Glenn was the recipient of the Victor Higgins Award of Distinction for the Best Overall Body of Work. Select awards include: the Gold Thunderbird Award (Best of Show) at Maynard Dixon Country; the first ever Emerging Artist Award presented by Art and Antiques Magazine; and the Grand Prize and Artists’ Choice Award at the inaugural Tucson/Sonoran Desert Museum Plein Air Invitational. Dean’s work is included in many National and International collections. His work is included in the permanent collection at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.

Dean paints on-location throughout the Southwest, dividing his time between deserts, mountains, and coastal subjects.

Time in the field and in the studio are equally important to Dean. While working in his studio, Dean is able to paint larger compositions worked from field studies and other references. Dean and his wife, Suzanne, live in his native state of California on the Central Coast.

The Pathfinder 30" x 24" Oil

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Glenn Dean

Riders of Vermillion Cliffs 20" x 25" Oil

The Return 30" x 30" Oil

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Terri Kelly Moyers has never wanted to do anything in life but paint. Even as a child growing up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, she was constantly drawing with her main subject matter being horses.

She briefly studied at the Alberta College of Art and also the Mount Royal Community College, but the stylistic emphasis in these two institutions was not of the realist, nature-based school that interested Terri. She continued working independently until she attended a month-long painting workshop taught by the artist, Robert Lougheed, at the Okanagan Game Farm in British Columbia.

It was there that she began in earnest painting animals from life as well as rubbing shoulders with and getting advice from artists from all over America. One of those artists receiving instruction from Lougheed was her future husband, John Moyers, of New Mexico.

Whether painting a portrait, a landscape or a cowgirl riding a horse, Moyer’s subjects are things that are beautiful and that move her. Her favorite subject is the American cowgirl. “I enjoy painting women,” she says. “I feel women had a major role to play in the West, and maybe that hasn’t been recognized as much as it could be.”

Terri Moyers exhibits annually at the Prix de West Show at the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, OK, the Masters of the American West Show at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, in Los Angeles, CA, and Quest for the West held at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, IN. She lives in California with her artist husband, John Moyers.

Terri paints in her studio and en plein air while traveling abroad which is another passion of hers.

The Price of War 36" x 36" Oil

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Terri Kelly Moyers

A Sudden Change 24" x 36" Oil

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Returning the Gray 18" x 25" Oil

Jason Rich grew up riding, training and drawing horses on a small farm in southern Idaho. Jason’s interest in art was fostered at a young age, which led him to study art at Utah State University where he received Bachelor and Master of Fine Art degrees. Upon completing his education, Jason dedicated himself to pursuing art full time and quickly established himself in the art market.

Over more than three decades, Jason has enjoyed much success and awards, first starting in ’97 with the Grand Prize for Arts of the Park award. He is featured at National Shows such as the Prix de West in Oklahoma, the Masters at the Autry Museum, and most notably as a member and past President of the Cowboy Artists of America. His most recent awards are the Stetson Award, Best Overall at the Cowboy Artists of America in 2015, and Western Artist of the Year at the Academy of Western Artists in 2014.

Jason lives in the mountains of northern Utah with his wife and three grown children. He feels he is living his dream, riding alongside cowboys working the cattle or packing through the mountains, keeping his paintings authentic to his way of life.

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Jason Rich

Searching for a Sign 24" x 20" Oil

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Matt Smith was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1960. At an early age he moved to Arizona where he developed his life long connection to the Sonoran Desert and the great outdoors. This was a connection that would eventually influence his decision to paint the landscape. As a teenager he also lived two years in France and one year in Switzerland. While in Europe, he had the opportunity to visit many of the great museums which helped solidify his love for art.

In 1985, Smith earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from Arizona State University.

Somewhat frustrated with the abstract focus of the program at ASU he began looking to outside sources for inspiration and guidance. These sources included fellow artists, fine galleries and museums. This is where his “real” education began.

These days, Matt can often be found painting en Plein air from southern Arizona to the Canadian Rockies, from the California coast to the Rocky Mountains. “I appreciate traditional landscape painting and I am inspired by the pristine landscapes of the American West. I enjoy working in areas where one can travel for miles without seeing the influence of man. When I paint, I feel I’ve hit the mark when I’ve captured a balance between mood, look and feel.

Paria Country 12" x 16" Oil

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Matt Smith

ST. Mary River 12" x 16" Oil

Willow Springs Boulder 11" x 14" Oil

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Western painter G. Russell Case is inspired by nature, but he places little value on literal translations. His sweeping, idealized versions of the Western landscape are compositions that combine the beauty of the natural world with the rich imagination and originality of an artist’s mind. Yet Case’s work is simple, pure and fresh. His painting draws in the viewer and delivers timeless landscapes created by shadow and light, of immense vistas punctuated by jagged mountains and inhabited by lonesome cowboys and American Indians.

Case has also won numerous awards including Best of Show and First Place Oil Painting, Phippen Western Art Show in Prescott, Arizona in 2001; First Place at Southwest Magazine Artist to Watch Show in Steam Boat Springs, Colorado in 2002; Best of Show, People’s Choice, and Artist’s Choice, Maynard Dixon Country, Mt. Carmel Junction, Utah in 2003; 2004 brought him the Golden Thunderbird Award for Best of Show at the Maynard Dixon Country exhibition. In 2005 Russell won the Edith Hamlin award at the Maynard Dixon Country. Coors Show featured artist 2010; and 2010 Dixie Invitational 3rd Place Oil. In 2012 he was awarded Best of Show at the Coors Western Art Exhibition & Sale. Russell received Artist Choice award at the Coors Show 2015.

At the Masters of the American West 2019 Russell won one of Montgomery Frames award. Case is in the following national shows, Prix de West in Oklahoma City, OK; Western Visions show in Jackson, WY; Quest for the West, Indianapolis, IN; and Masters of the American West, Los Angeles, CA. Fading Fast 24" x 36" Oil

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Russell Case

Patterned From Time 18" x 24" Oil

New Mexico Church 12" x 16" Oil 17

Morgan Weistling is nationally recognized as one of America’s top contemporary painters today.

A successful illustrator in the Hollywood movie industry for fourteen years, Weistling made a transition to the world of fine art in 1998 that has been meteoric in no small sense of the word.

His earliest influence was his artist father on whose lap Morgan sat and sketched at just nineteen months of age. At the age of 15, he began his serious art training in the Los Angeles area at Brandes Art Institute, run by Fred Fixler. Fixler was train classically by famed muralist, Frank Reilly. Under Fixler’s tutelage, Weistling learned to paint by studying how light and tone tell the story of form.

Weistling was recruited out of art school by the top advertising agency in Hollywood, Bacon Reneric Design, at the age of 19. For 14 years he created movie posters with every major studio in the entertainment business. Morgan thrived under the challenges presented to him in the highly stressed poster industry but was looking forward to a time when he could stretch himself more artistically.

After leaving illustration, Morgan soon became known nationally for his exquisite oil paintings that showcase his well honed drawing ability and his skilled control over values, edges and light. He is able to draw upon his many years as a illustrator to create masterful compositions with multiple figures as well as single figure settings. Most often, his subjects are period pieces, evoking a more gentle, gracious time. He captures the mood and atmosphere of the past and his attention to the historical aspects of his subjects comes from his desire to portray the truth and beauty of America’s pioneering spirit. His paintings have a deep sense of history to them due to the research and authentic costumes that are especially made for him.

Weistling’s paintings have won multiple awards and been purchased for permanent display by major museums. He is still the youngest to ever win the coveted Prix de West Award at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. He also went on to win it a second time in 2008.

Morgan and his wife, JoAnn, have been married since 1990 and also met in art school. They have two daughters, Brittany and Sienna. Brittany also exhibits in the Autry Masters show. Morgan participates in the Prix de West Show and the Masters Show at the Autry Museum.

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Morgan Weistling

The Desert Wrangler 24" x 18" Oil

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John Moyers A Growing Threat 30" x 30" Oil

Russell Case Coyote Flats 16" x 20" Oil

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Canyon Whispers

Jason Rich

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48" x 60" Oil