WESTERN ART

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WESTERN ART

• Introduction to Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

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GEORGIA OKEEFFE 1887-1986 Rams Head White
Hollyhock and Little Hills 1935
-One of the most celebrated women artists of the
20th century -Known for her desert style
pictures that included flowers, skulls and
bones -This painting is representative of
strength, will power, and omnipresence -The
overarching horns and overbearing appearance of
the rams head she finds to be uniquely American
because our culture is so dominating.-
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Richard Avedon 1923-2004 In the American
West Richard Wheatcroft, rancher, Jordan,
Montana, 1981
-A fashion and portrait American
photographer -Lead photographer for Vogue
magazine in the 1960s and 1970s -Interested in
how portraiture captures the personality and soul
of its subject -Traveled the American West for 6
years photographing 125 people that caught his eye
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Story of Richard Wheatcroft

• Miles City, Montana, hosts the most Western of
  events each May, a bucking horse sale. Rank
  horses, brought in from ranches, buck and lunge
  out of chutes as an auctioneer briskly sells the
  stock to rodeo contractors from all over the
  West. One night after the sale, Avedon and Wilson
  went to a bar in Miles City and met by chance,
  Richard Wheatcroft. He was twenty-four and ran
  the cattle his grandfather had put together
  starting in 1914 with a homestead allotment of
  320 free acres. His grandfather continued to buy
  land during the Depression and in times of
  drought from hard-up neighbors.In 1978 Richard
  found his father crushed to death under a
  tractor, and the responsibility of running the
  15,000-acre ranch near Jordan fell to him.
• Avedon photographs Richard Wheatcroft on his
  ranch. The ranch is so remote that mail is
  delivered only three times a week and cellular
  coverage uncertain. The ranch gate is nine miles
  from a paved road.

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James Ayers Mato-Tope, Four Bears - 1832
-Mato-Tope was a Mandan Chief. He was called
Four Bears after a battle where people said he
charged like four bears -Famously known for
being a brave warrior, and killing a Cheyenne
chief in hand-to-hand combat -dressed in full
battle regalia, with all of the trappings of a
valiant and honorable warrior. The number of
feathers worn in a warriors hair denoted battle
coups.
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Robert Glen 1940-? The Mustangs of Las Colinas
- 1976
-Bronze sculpture designed to be viewed in any
direction at location in Dallas, TX -Largest
equestrian sculpture in the world -Robert Glen
started as a researcher in nature at the age of
14 and designed his first bronze cast sculpture
in the 1970s