[TEXASPROUD]

I love going to the Amon Carter museum of Western Art. Remington and Russell captured the everyday work of the cowboy and soldier, but Bierstadt captured the magnificance of the Yellowstone and other areas of the west.

[MissAmericanPie]

I love Remington also, but the best Western Art I have ever seen in my life was painted by a Chez, and I don't even remember his name.

He would sqeeze a tube of color right on the canvas, I couldn't stop looking at them. In one large painting, a night scene, he had painted a closeup of a herd of soaking wet wild horses caught in a lightening flash, talk about spectacular.

Another of his paintings was of a pioneer woman with her back to the viewer, rocking her sleeping baby in front of a
fireplace. The way he played the firelight along their profiles was staggering.

I love this medium and try my own hand at it now and again along with multi layered stained glass. I never have enough time to devote to it like I would love to.

[Liberty Valance]

American Art...Remington, James Taylor, the Dixie Chicks, Frank Loyd Wright, Dubya ...:o) God I love this country!