Billy Schenck Art
American, b. 1947
Billy Schenck has been known internationally for 44 years as one of the originators of the contemporary 'Pop' western art movement. He is an American painter who incorporates techniques from Photo-Realism with a Pop Art sensibility to both exalt and poke fun at images of the West.
Schenck has had over 100 solo shows. His work is in the permanent collections of 48 museums and important private and corporate collections.
Museum collections include the Smithsonian, Mesa Southwest Museum, The Tucson Museum of Art, The Denver Art Museum, Museum of the Southwest, Midland TX, Albuquerque Fine Arts Museum and the New Mexico Museum of Art. Private collections include the estate of Malcolm Forbes, Steve Forbes, Chris Evert, Elaine Horwitch, Louis Meisel, Martina Navratilova, Laurance Rockefeller, Fritz Scholder and Sylvester Stallone. Corporate collections include: American Airlines, I.B.M., Raymond James Financial, Wells Fargo Bank, Hilton Hotels, Sturm Ruger and The National Bank of Switzerland.
“What has remained constant throughout Schenck’s career is his individuality in dealing with the subject matter of the west. Using the artistic formula of classic western film direction and the photographically reliant systems of contemporary art, he has bridged two genres that resonate with the American experience. From early depictions of cinematic cowboys to real-life cowboys and cowgirls to poetic reveries about the Native American existence in the Southwest, Schenck melds the real with the imagined, autobiography with fantasy.” -Julie Sasse, Chief Curator and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Tucson Museum of Art.(Biography provided by Bruce Kapson Gallery)
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By Billy Schenck
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
BILLY SCHENCK
"Last Chance"
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Bill Schenck, "Days Of August" Serigraph, 20/83, 1987
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Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bill Schenck
Days Of August
Serigraph 20/83
1987
Hand signed, date and numbered by Schenck in pencil.
29.50 inches H. x 38.50 inches W.
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Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
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"Gratuitous Violence"
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By Billy Schenck
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
BILLY SCHENCK
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"Waco" Serigraph by Billy Schenck, 1981
By Billy Schenck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bill Schenck
Waco
Serigraph 7/58
1981
Hand signed, date and numbered by Schenck in pencil.
25.75 inches H. x 25 inches W.
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Across the Mancos Canyon
By Billy Schenck
Located in Denver, CO
One of the originators of the Western pop art movement, Billy Schenck incorporates techniques from photorealism with a pop art sensibility to both exalt and poke fun at images of the West. Schenck is known for utilizing cinematic imagery reproduced in a flattened, reductivist style, where colors are displayed side-by-side rather than blended or shadowed. In the August 2014 issue of SouthwestArt magazine, his work was described as “a stance … a pendulum between the romantic and the irreverent.”
Schenck’s artwork is now in 48 museum collections, including Smithsonian Institution, Denver Art Museum, The Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Booth Western Art Museum, Tucson Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum, the Mesa Southwest Museum, Museum of the Southwest, Midland TX...
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Study for the Wrong Side of Paradise
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One of the originators of the Western pop art movement, Billy Schenck incorporates techniques from photorealism with a pop art sensibility to both exalt and poke fun at images of the West. Schenck is known for utilizing cinematic imagery reproduced in a flattened, reductivist style, where colors are displayed side-by-side rather than blended or shadowed. In the August 2014 issue of SouthwestArt magazine, his work was described as “a stance … a pendulum between the romantic and the irreverent.”
Schenck’s artwork is now in 48 museum collections, including Smithsonian Institution, Denver Art Museum, The Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Booth Western Art Museum, Tucson Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum, the Mesa Southwest Museum, Museum of the Southwest, Midland TX...
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Hurry Sundown
By Billy Schenck
Located in Missouri, MO
Billy Schenck (American, b. 1947)
Hurry Sundown, 1985
Edition 19/60
Serigraph
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Signed, Titled, Dated, and Numbered Lower Margin
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A genuine cowboy himself, Schenck is a ranch-sorting world champion and the proprietor of the Double Standard Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, his home for the past two decades.
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