Cowboys & Images: The Watercolors of William Matthews

The West has attracted many wonderful painters over the years, but rarely has any one of them introduced a new vision of the region and its inhabitants. William Matthews had already made a name for himself as a watercolorist when he began to paint cowboys and their world in 1985. Associated with the revival of cowboy poetry and music fostered by the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, Matthews brought a fresh and unexpected viewpoint to this classic American figure.