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William Moyers, CA |
| Discipline(s): Oil, Bronze Sculptor |
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Accolades: Member & three-time President of the prestigious Cowboy Artists of America
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Bio:
William Moyers(1916 - 2010) was born in Atlanta, GA. His love for the cowboy began when he was fourteen and his family moved to Alamosa, Colorado. As a young man he broke horses, participated in the rodeo circuit and worked as an all-around cowhand. Moyers received his B.A. from Adams State University, after which he attended the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, where he also worked for Walt Disney. In 1943, he and Neva married. He served in the Army and she in the Navy, and they lived in New York City where he began illustration, winning an "American Artist" magazine competition for illustrating an Owen Wister novel. From that time, his career took off and Neva handled the business side but stayed in the Navy until his success was obvious.
Moyers' work is in numerous major collections including the Gilcrease Institute; the National Cowboy Hall of Fame; the Albuquerque Museum; the Dever Art Museum; the Eiteljorg Museum of the American Indian and Western Art; the Museum of Art at Brigham Young University and the Cowboy Artist of America Museum.
I find the working cowboy, past and present, such a harmonious outgrowth of his whole environment. He accepts the rough action, the wild weather, the periodic loneliness and the hard responsibility of his job as a normal existence. Put this direct man in the vast settings in which he lives, and he is subject to try an artist's skill. Possibly, too, there is a lot of nostalgia in it for me-a chance to recapture something I deeply loved and of which I can no longer be a part. William Moyers |
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