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.
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