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Title

Cowboy art [videorecording] / London Weekend Television ; executive producer, Nick Evans ; produced by Alan Benson.

Publication

Chicago : Home Vision, 1983.

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Details

Additional Authors

Benson, Alan.

Description

1 videocassette (55 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

A uniquely American genre, "cowboy art" originated with two 19th-century illustrators of the "wild West," Charles Russell and Frederic Remington. Their paintings and drawings romanticized the American frontier and mythicized the cowboys and Indians. After fifty years of obscurity, cowboy art is enjoying a newly-found popularity. This documentary profiles three artists who live and work in the American Southwest. Painter Gary Snidow portrays the gritty realities of the contemporary cowboy lifestyle as practiced in the Texas panhandle. Sculptor Joe Beeler fashions bronzes based on his observations of Arizona life. Gary Niblett paints historical scenes of Pueblo Indian culture in New Mexico. All three men belong to Cowboy Artists of America, an organization dedicated to the sponsorship and dissemination of the art of the West.

Series Statement

(Portrait of an artist)

Alternative Title

• Portrait of an artist.
• South Bank show.

Subject

• Cowboys in art
• Art, American
• Painters > United States
• West (U.S.) > In art

Note

• Also shown on The South Bank show.

Credits (note)

• Producer, director, Alan Benson; photography, Dick Pope.

Title

Cowboy art [videorecording] / London Weekend Television ; executive producer, Nick Evans ; produced by Alan Benson.

Imprint

Chicago : Home Vision, 1983.

Series

(Portrait of an artist)

Credits

Producer, director, Alan Benson; photography, Dick Pope.

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Added Author

Benson, Alan.

Added Title

Portrait of an artist.

South Bank show.

Branch Call Number

VTH 2870 C