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"Off the Rimrock"(a/p) by Bill Anton
Limited Edition Giclee on Canvas-Stretched Canvas
(Unstretched Canvas also available, please specify when ordering)
Signed & Numbered by the Artist
ARTIST PROOF
Edition Size 15
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"Off the Rimrock" by Bill Anton ~ The West is a land of great contrasts. Its immensity alone allows for broad types of terrain, altitude and weather. In "Off the Rimrock", an imminent thunderstorm quickens the pace of a drive as the cowboys urge the cattle off the high ground. Warm late afternoon light illuminates the figures and sets them in bold relief against the darkening skies.
Artist Statement
“I do not see myself as a biographer of the cowboy. I know some artists feel they are recording history on the ranches as life there is today, but the focus of my work has always been mood and passion. If I’m recording anything, I’m recording how I feel about the west. I want the viewer to feel the drama of atmosphere and the mystery of a western night. I want the volume and portent of a cloud to be evident in the calligraphy of a brushstroke. The pack of muscle below a horse’s shoulder should be energized by a gestural application of paint.
“You see, I love to paint. And I love the American west. I was born in Chicago, but the Sierra Nevada, Sangre de Cristo, Sawatch and a hundred other ranges of our rocky mountains were the only “Big Shoulders” I was ever interested in. Walking thunderstorms, sunstruck cedars, rimrock and artfully abstract water patterns charge the landscape with impossible beauty.
“Amidst this nobility is its caretaker: the rancher. With the natural ease of generations bred to the saddle, he is a powerful image further ennobled by a fine horse. An artist under the spell of the west has the privilege of marshalling the virtues of landscape, figure andequine painting into one supremely paintable subject: the American cowboy.”
- Bill Anton
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