![]() Bronze, 6.5 x 4 x 2.5” , titled "Buffalo Chant" WILLIAM MOYERS Painter and sculptor of objective scenes in
Western life, born in
Atlanta, Georgia in 1916 and living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “I
paint what I do,” Moyers observes, “because I find the working cowboy,
past and present, such a harmonious outgrowth of his whole environment.
He accepts the action, weather, loneliness, and responsibilities as a
normal existence. Too, there is a lot of nostalgia in it for me—a
chance to recapture something of which I can no longer be a part. “When I was
fourteen,” he adds, “I had the fortune to come to the San
Luis Valley of Colorado for a summer on a ranch. I did not return to
Georgia for five years, and then just for two months.” Before long, his
competence as a cowboy helped pay his tuition at Adams State College
where he graduated in 1939. He also studied at Otis Art Institute in
Los Angeles before getting a job with Walk Disney Studios that showed
him that “competent art could be produced on regular hours.” He taught
school in Colorado and then served in the Army in World War II. For the
next fifteen years, he worked as an illustrator in New York City. |
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