Category: “Cowboy Artist”

Cowboy Artist Raised on Texas Ranch Paints Old West and New West, Inspired by ‘Gunsmoke,’ Reenactments

“You can’t paint timid.” Bold. That’s how the cowboy artist from Canyon, Texas, approaches his painting. “I’d rather paint a bold brush stroke wrong than a timid brush stroke right,” Jack Sorenson, 69, told The Epoch Times. With 48 years of experience under his belt, rendering the Old West and the New West in oil,…


‘Cowboy Artist’ Paints an Epic Event: ‘Lewis and Clark Meet Salish Flathead Indians at Ross’s Hole’

The explorers arrived in the valley on a cold and clear morning in September 1805. With a hint of winter coming, Meriwether Lewis wrote in his weather diary that an inch of ice covered the ground in Ross’s Hole, Montana. John Ordway, a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, noted that snow now covered…