The End of the American Frontier

MARCH 3, 2020 For a number of decades I’ve known and admired Tom Russell’s work as a gritty folksinger-songwriter, cowboy poet, Southwest musician – but somehow the notion of him as a painter passed me by. Never even occurred to me he was the artist of his CD covers. I first saw prints of some …

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Tags: Expressionist Portraiture, Francis Bacon, Frederick Remington, Jungian Archetypes, Old West TV, The End of the American Frontier, The Mythology of the Old West, The Spirit World in Art, The Turner Thesis, Western Art, Western Expressionism