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The 13th Annual Juried Art Show - 2004 Competition
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Juror - Tony Eubanks of Clifton, TX
Born
in Dallas Texas, Tony Eubanks spent his early childhood in Corpus
Christi and Grapevine, Texas drawing and painting at an early
age. He took art training at Texas Tech University, North Texas
University and the Art Center in Los Angeles. He and his wife,
Brenda, now live near the small, Central Texas town of Clifton,
Texas.
Eubanks is noted for the diversity of his subject matter western
paintings, landscapes, seascapes. He is also attracted to
the dramatic lighting that comes with early morning or late in
the day light. He says, “Painting different subjects keeps
me a lot fresher and interested in what I’m doing. I guess
I’m attracted to new themes in the same way an actor is
attracted to new roles.”
Recently, he has shown in the Masters of the American West at
the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, the Northwest
Rendezvous Group in Helena, Montana, and the Prix de West Invitational
in Oklahoma City. He has received numerous awards from the Salmagundi
Club of New York and the Copley Society of Boston. He is a signature
member of Oil Painters of America and is represented in many well-known
private and corporate collections, including the Library of Congress
in Washington.
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Judge - Bruce R. Greene of Clifton, TX
Bruce
R. Greene and his family live on a small ranch in the historical
community of Norse, outside Clifton, Texas. The studio is on the
edge of the hill out behind the house. From there, large north
windows offer Bruce a continuous view of the Texas Hill Country,
a few Hereford cows and the occasional whitetail deer, “It
is a wonderful blessing to be able to make a living for my family,
doing what I love in this beautiful place.”
After obtaining a Fine Arts degree at the University of Texas,
Greene studied with many well-known artists, and was later elected
to the Cowboy Artists of America in 1993. One of Greene's passions
of his work is the research. He enjoys painting the events and
emotions found in the writings and diaries of early Western settlers
such as the acceptance, determination, and capability of the woman
in "The Widow's Iron", the courage of Susanna Dickenson
as she leaves the Alamo, and the day to day chores as seen in
"Goats in the Garden.
"Several
years ago, Bruce began annual trips north to join in the spring
work on the old JA Ranch in the Palo Duro Canyon of Texas. “I
go up there and stay on the chuck wagon with the JA hands and
the neighbors that have come to help. We ride a lot of miles in
rough country. It can be cold, hot, windy and wet. As a matter
of fact, it can be all of these in one day. A fella’ could
get lost in some of the mesquite or cedar thickets. Of course,
we work a few cows on our place and help out a neighbor now and
then, but the JA trip has been a real inspiration for me each
year. I am absolutely sure that this experience has greatly affected
my artwork. It seems necessary, to me, in order to depict the
contemporary cowboy with accuracy and feeling. My good friend,
Red Steagall, calls it ‘getting the dust in your nose.’
For me, that dust makes the difference.
"In The Dust of the JA"
Oil - 40 x 30
Judge's Comments
The show is wonderful! I hope Tony will be pleased with the selections I made in his absence. Congratulations to the winners. You deserve to feel great about what you have done. To those of you who did not win, you should realize that this was one person’s opinion. Either way -- if your heart is in it, keep doing it.
Bruce R. Greene, CA
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