Jack Sorenson

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Bandito
Rockin Remuda
out of the shadows
high maintenance
across the canyon
a day late and dollars short
headin' in
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bad news travels fast
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into the draw
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hard to get to
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high tailing it
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prickly pear
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the dry wash
parched
on the floor of the palo duro
sandstone and cedar
to greener pastures
the crossing
palo duro overlook
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the pinto
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fine horses and bad men
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grays anatomy
on the canyon floor
colored clay and quarter horses
the youngster
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slow goin
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the searchers
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spanish skirt
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river breaks brunch
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takin it easy
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sunburn
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autumn
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ladies first
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santa's magical saddlebags
the spell of the bells
made in the shade
goin home for christmas
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cold canyon shadows
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run for their money
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runnin with mama
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Finding Their Place
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a quick prayer and a long curve
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desert water
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high lonesome
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three's company
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then there were four
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cold water falling leaves
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long legs short neck
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born far from fences
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love at first sight
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burnt biscuits and beans
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the intruders
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a legend by sundown
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the tracker
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a quiet start to a long day
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a saddle bag of joy
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busy night at the mercer saloon
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cool breeze
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drink darnk drunk
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in step with mama
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darkness and deep water
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easy to come by
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enter the law
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joshua
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polar expresso
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on the dodge
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special delivery
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the discovery
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the horse with christmas spirit
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talkin philosophy
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the getaway
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the tree hugger
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the hunted
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trouble is a coming
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cowboy christmas eve
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instep with mama
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ArTIST bio

Texas artist Jack Sorenson has spent his entire life on and around horses, a fact which has contributed tremendously to his authentic depiction of these magnificent creatures. Attention to detail and strong story-lines also characterize his work. Sorenson grew up living the scenes of the Wild West that he now paints. As a kid on his father’s dude ranch and frontier town on the rim of Palo Duro Canyon, his various jobs included gunfighter and stagecoach driver. Later, he moved on to breaking horses, which he continued to do after his marriage and while he began to paint more seriously. “I’ve known all my life that I was going to be an artist,” he says. “It’s like a preacher being called – it’s what I’m supposed to do.” After his first one-man show sold out, Sorenson opted for painting full time.

Sorenson’s sense of humor is often evident in his paintings of children, cowboys, and horses. “I believe great paintings should tell a story – they should involve the viewer. So much of Western art today is basically a cowboy or Indian riding through a Western landscape. We have the opportunity as artists to do so much more. I think that even a painting’s title should help tell the story.”

Jack Sorenson has been a professional artist for twenty-four years and his paintings have been used as covers for more than a dozen Western magazines. He is one of the best-selling artists for Leanin’ Tree Christmas & Greeting Cards. Warner Brothers recently used Sorenson’s painting of the Palo Duro Canyon as the cover of The Log of a Cowboy, an audio literature cassette by Michael Martin Murphey.

Joe Wade Fine Art of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is the exclusive representative of Jack Sorenson’s original oil paintings.