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Red Rodeo Rider 1981
Bill Schenck
Serigraph, edition of 75
Image size 35 x 25 inches
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Billy Schenck has been known internationally for 44 years as one of the originators of the contemporary "Pop" western movement. Schenck has had over 100 solo shows and is included in 44 museum collections. 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.
Career highlights for the artist include the 2013 Utah Museum of Fine Art’s Bierstadt to Warhol: American Indians in the West exhibit, the Denver Art Museum’s “Western Horizons” and a retrospective of serigraphs created by Schenck from 1971 through 1996 at the Tucson Museum of Art.
Museum collections include the 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, the estate of 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
Education:
1965-1967 Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio
1967-1969 BFA Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2014 "The Myth of the West," Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2013 Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2011 Tucson Museum of Art, "Bill Schenck Serigraphs 1971-1996 Retrospective", Tucson, AZ
2010 The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho, Bill Schenck Serigraphs 1971-1996 Retrospective, Idaho Falls, ID
2010 Strong Schenck Galleries, Bill Schenck: "New Paintings", Santa Fe, NM
2010 Strong Schenck Galleries, "Bill Schenck New Paintings", Scottsdale, AZ
2009 Strong Schenck Galleries, Grand Opening Solo Exhibition, Santa Fe, NM
2007 Tadu Contemporary/Schenck Southwest, "'Till the End of Time" Graffiti paintings, Santa Fe, NM
2006 Booth Western Art Museum, "Post Apocalyptic Pop", Cartersville, GA
2002 West Valley Museum, "New Directions", Surprize, Arizona
2001 Museum of the Southwest, "Point of Departure", Midland, Texas
1996 Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art, Ten Year Retrospective, "The West as it Never Was", St. Joseph, Missouri
1990 Wyoming State Museum, Cheyenne, Wyoming, "Bill Schenck, A 10 Year Retrospective 1980 - 1990"
1987 Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah
1983 Scottsdale Center for the Arts, "Bill Schenck 1968-83, 15 Year Retrospective", Scottsdale, Arizona
1978 West Nebraska Arts Center, Scottsbluff, Nebraska
1975-76 Concord Courthouse Bicentennial Exhibition, Concord, Massachusetts
1971 "100 + 101" Loft Exhibition, New York, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2019 "Along the Distant Mesa: An Homage to Maynard Dixon" Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2019 "Night of the Artists," Briscoe Western Art Museum
2017 "25th Anniversary Celebration" Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2014 “Night of the Artists” The Briscoe Western Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
2014 Museum of Fine Arts “New Mexico and the Arts of Enchantment, St. Petersburg, FL
2014 LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
2013 National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum “Small Works, Great Wonders,” Oklahoma City, OK
2013 “The West Select” Phoenix Art Museum, AZ
2013 NM Museum of Art, “Back in the Saddle”, Santa Fe, NM, curated by John Torres Nez and Joseph Traugott
2013 Briscoe Western Art Museum, “Night of Artists”, San Antonio, TX
2013 The Coeur d'Alene Art Auction group, “March in Montana”, Great Falls, MT
2013 Utah Museum of Fine Arts, “Bierstadt To Warhol: American Indians in the West”, Salt Lake City, UT
2012 The West Gallery, “Grand Opening”, Berlin, Germany
1983 Alberta College of Art Gallery, "2nd Annual Wild West Show", Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1982 Centro De Arte Moderno, Guadalajara, Mexico
1976 Grand Hornu Gallery, "U.S.A. Contemporary Artists", Grand Hornu, Belgium
1976 "U.S.A. Contemporary Artists", Mons, Belgium
1976 Fiore Internationale D'Art, Group Show, Comtebrain, Paris, France
1974 Gallery Moos, Ltd., "Aspects of Realism", Toronto, Canada
1974 Gallerie Trois Porte, Mons, Belgium
Selected Museum Collections:
Superstition Mountain Historical Museum, Apache Junction, Arizona
Mesa Southwest Museum, Mesa, Arizona
Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona
West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, Arizona
Matthews Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenberg, Arizona
The Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Anaheim, California
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Housatonic Community College, Westport, Connecticut
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
The Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, Georgia
Brigham Young University-Idaho, Rexburg, ID
Notre Dame Business College, Bloomington, Indiana
Midwest Museum, Elkhart, Indiana
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana
Brandeis University Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
Babson College Art Collection, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, Missouri
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, Missouri
Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana
Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, Montana
Albuquerque Fine Arts Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Pickard Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio
C.B. Goddard Center for the Arts, Ardmore, Oklahoma
Fred Jones Museum of Art, Norman, Oklahoma
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Rose Art Museum, Richmond, Virginia
Clymer Museum, Ellensburg, Washington
Nicolaysen Museum, Casper, Wyoming
Wyoming State Museum, Cheyenne, Wyoming
Whitney Gallery of Western Art, Cody, Wyoming
The Nelson Museum of Western Art, Cheyenne, Wyoming
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington
West Texas A & M University, Canyon, Texas
Selected Public Collections:
University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections, Tucson, Arizona
Arizona State University Libraries Special Collections, Tempe, Arizona
Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, Arizona
Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, Arizona
St. Luke's Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona
Edward Shaw Cancer Clinic, Vail Hospital, Vail, Colorado
Presbyterian Ear Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Governor's Mansion, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe Public Library, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Lander Valley Medical Center, Lander, Wyoming
Sam and Diane Stewart Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah
St. John’s Medical Center, Jackson, Wyoming
Selected Corporate Collections:
Collier Gallery, Phoenix Arizona
American Airlines, Phoenix, Arizona
Jim Simmons (United Bank), Phoenix, Arizona
Valley National Bank, Phoenix, Arizona
Est, Est, Scottsdale, Arizona
I.B.M., Tucson, Arizona
United California Bank, Los Angeles, California
Wells Fargo Bank, Los Angeles, California
Art Programs, San Francisco, California
Hilton Hotel, Grand Junction, Colorado
McDonald's Corporation , Chicago, Illinois
Bob Burnett (Meredith Corporation), Des Moines, Iowa
Pioneer Car Stereo, Tokyo, Japan
Suntory Liquors , Tokyo, Japan
Sturn Ruger Corporation, New Jersey
Security Pacific Bank, New York, New York
National Bank of Switzerland, Geneva, Switzerland
First Interstate Bank, Salt Lake City, Utah
Jackson State Bank, Jackson, Wyoming
Mountain Bell, Laramie, Wyoming
Northern Trust Bank, Phoenix, Arizona
Raymond James Financial Collection, St. Petersburg, Florida
Vermillion Editions Limited, Amarillo, Texas
Bill Schenck
One of the originators of the Western pop art movement, Bill 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. Bill Schenck's work is in the permanent collections of over 40 museums ranging from the Smithsonian Institute to the Eiteljorg Museum and in corporate collections ranging from American Airlines to I.B.M.
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Jimenez studied architecture at the University of Texas, Austin (UTA), and also took art courses in which he first created sculptures with wood, steel, and fiberglass, choosing the latter because of its association with U.S. popular culture. He subsequently became one of the artists who made fiberglass an acceptable medium in the 1960s. In 1964 Jimenez received his B.S. in art from UTA, and he continued his studies at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City.
In 1966 he moved to New York City and worked as an assistant to sculptor Seymour Lipton. Jimnez began to exhibit his art while in New York and in 1972 moved to New Mexico to focus on creating public sculptures, even as he maintained his diverse output of drawings, prints, and lithographs.
Drawing on his early experiences, Jimenez creates works that come from a border perspective, one that draws upon the hybridity bred by culture clashes. Often socially and politically informed, his works speak not only in regional terms, those germane to the southwestern United States, but to broader, more global issues as well. They exhibit a profoundly Chicano aesthetic and sensibility, one that is informed by Mexican and Mexican American traditions, North American popular culture, Chicano cultural icons, and images and themes unique to the Southwest. Death, sexuality, and the struggle of the common people are frequent themes.
Inspired by authors who write in an autobiographical style, Jimenez creates works that function as personal narrative yet are also able to make statements about culture in more global terms. His use of bold colors and lines, a legacy from his fathers work as a neon sign maker, lends a dynamic sensuality to his work, one that is particularly evident in his monumental fiberglass and acrylic urethane sculptural works
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The First International Motorcycle Art Show (Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, 1973).
Three Texas Artists (Centre Cultural Americaine, USIS, Paris, 1977),
Recent Trends in Collecting (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1982).
Committed to Print (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1989)
Printmaking in Texas: The 1980s (Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX.
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, 1990.
The Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1991)
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1883 - 1960
At age 13, Lon Megargee came to Phoenix in 1896 following the death of his father in Philadelphia. For several years he resided with relatives while working at an uncle’s dairy farm and at odd jobs. He returned to Philadelphia in 1898 – 1899 in order to attend drawing classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Back in Phoenix in 1899, he decided at the age of 16 to try to make his living as a cowboy.
Lon moved to the cow country of Wickenburg, Arizona where he was hired by Tex Singleton’s Bull Ranch. He later joined the Three Bar R. . . and after a few years, was offered a job by Billy Cook of the T.T. Ranch near New River. By 1906, Megargee had learned his trade well enough to be made foreman of Cook’s outfit.
Never shy about taking risks, Lon soon left Cook to try his own hand at ranching. He partnered with a cowpuncher buddy, Tom Cavness, to start the El Rancho Cinco Uno at New River. Unfortunately, the young partners could not foresee a three-year drought that would parch Arizona, costing them their stock and then their hard-earned ranch.
Breaking with his romantic vision of cowboy life, Megargee finally turned to art full time. He again enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art and then the Los Angeles School of Art and Design during 1909 – 1910. The now well-trained student took his first trip to paint “en plein air” (outdoors) to the land of Hopi and Navajo peoples in northern Arizona. After entering paintings from this trip in the annual Territorial Fair at Phoenix, in 1911, he surprisingly sold his first oil painting to a major enterprise – the Santa Fe Railroad . . . Lon received $50 for “Navajos Watching the Santa Fe Train.” He soon sold the SFRR ten paintings over the next two years. For forty years the railroad was his most important client, purchasing its last painting from him in 1953.
In a major stroke of good fortune during his early plein-air period, Megargee had the opportunity to paint with premier artist, William R. Leigh (1866 – 1955). Leigh furnished needed tutoring and counseling, and his bright, impressionistic palette served to enhance the junior artist’s sense of color and paint application. In a remarkable display of unabashed confidence and personable salesmanship, Lon Megargee, at age 30, forever linked his name with Arizona art history. Despite the possibility of competition from better known and more senior artists, he persuaded Governor George Hunt and the Legislature in 1913 to approve 15 large, historic and iconic murals for the State Capitol Building in Phoenix. After completing the murals in 1914, he was paid the then princely sum of roughly $4000. His Arizona statehood commission would launch Lon to considerable prominence at a very early point in his art career.
Following a few years of art schooling in Los Angeles, and several stints as an art director with movie studios, including Paramount, Megargee turned in part to cover illustrations for popular Western story magazines in the 1920s.
In the 1920s, as well, Lon began making black and white prints of Western types and of genre scenes from woodblocks. These prints he generally signed and sold singly. In 1933, he published a limited edition, signed and hard-cover book (about 250 copies and today rare)containing a group of 28 woodblock images. Titled “The Cowboy Builds a Loop,” the prints are noteworthy for strong design, excellent draftsmanship, humanistic and narrative content, and quality. Subjects include Southwest Indians and cowboys, Hispanic men and women, cattle, horses, burros, pioneers, trappers, sheepherders, horse traders, squaw men and ranch polo players. Megargee had a very advanced design sense for simplicity and boldness which he demonstrated in how he used line and form. His strengths included outstanding gestural (action) art and strong figurative work. He was superb in design, originality and drawing, as a study of his prints in the Hays collection reveals.
In 1944, he published a second group of Western prints under the same title as the first. Reduced to 16 images from the original 28 subjects, and slightly smaller, Lon produced these prints in brown ink on a heavy, cream-colored stock. He designed a sturdy cardboard folio to hold each set. For the remainder of his life, Lon had success selling these portfolios to museum stores, art fairs and shows, and to the few galleries then selling Western art.
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