Schenck in the 21st Century: The Myth of the Hero and the Truth of America

Bill Schenck is one of the best-known practitioners of the western pop-art movementwhich appeared in the 1960s hard on the heels of American pop's leading lights like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, according to Southwest Art magazine. Schenck in the 21st Century is a comprehensive catalog raisonne and biography covering Schenck's paintings, photographs, serigraphs, and the other kinds of trouble he's been in since the turn of the millennium. Written by noted art historian, Amy Abrams, this is the most authoritative source on Schenck's current work and philosophy of life, art, and the way it ought to be.

Schencks work can be found in numerous major collections throughout the world, including the Smithsonian Institution, Denver Art Museum, The Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Booth Western Art Museum, Tucson Museum of Art, and many more. Schenck's work has been the subject of four museum retrospectives, including The West as It Never Was, at the Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art. Schenck is a World Champion Ranch Sorting winner and the proprietor of the Double Standard Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, his home for the past two decades.

The painter Bill Schenck has been challenging the western myth for four decades through his paintings, prints, and photography. His works possess a deep understanding of design and a sophisticated sense of color that has only heightened in recent years with his brazenly bold canvases.
Thomas Brent Smith Director, Petrie Institute of Western American Art, Denver Art Museum