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Art of the American West – Best Art Colleges in Texas

Texas also has famous museums like the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center McNay Art Museum and the San Antonio Museum of Art and the Austin Museum of Art.

The College’s School of Visual and Performing Arts (SOA) at Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas offers NASAD accredited degree programs in fine arts, art history, communication design and visual studies. The BFA in Studio Art focuses on the development of students’ personal expression artistic and technical skills, and impart an understanding and appreciation of both artistic and contemporary art. The school also offers masters and PhD in Fine Art and Critical Studies focusing on artistic practice.

Q: What got you interested in art of the American West?
A: I had a great professor in college who taught American Studies and came in one day with a slide show of Frederic Remington [1861-1909] and CM Russell [1864-1926]. I grew up in Wichita Falls, Texas, and I knew people who worked on ranches or knew people who did it and boy, the pictures did not look like the West that I knew. The west of the first artists was very romantic and the cowboys I knew were hard workers, but not fancy handkerchiefs and put your pants into your boots. So I am very interested in the difference between how the West is represented and how they really

Q: What are some of the major western art sales last year?
A: We saw a lot of the early work of the original members of the Cowboy Artists of America. This is a group that began in the 1960s. They have been popular, but it has been difficult to find early works by these guys. Joe Beeler [1931-2006], John Hampton [1918-1999], Melvin Warren [1920-1995], James Boren [1921-1990]. Undoubtedly, the most successful West Texas artist is a guy named Gerald Harvey Jones [b.1933], who goes by G. Harvey. He is very popular.

They are not doing Westerns. “And you know, two or three years later, something more popular, if the Rocky Mountain West and Southwest. This is a topic that I think people are going to be painting 100 years.

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