ROY ANDERSEN (American, b.1930). The Trace Leads South. Oil on canvas. 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm). Signed lower le...

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ROY ANDERSEN (American, b.1930)
The Trace Leads South
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Signed lower left: Roy Andersen / RA

Roy Andersen's work is featured in the new book Texas Traditions by Michael Duty and Susan Hallsten McGarry.

Roy Andersen lives near Kerrville, Texas, on land that was once home to roving bands of Comanche and Kiowa Indians. In addition to being one of the country's finest and most successful artists of the historic American West, Andersen and his wife, Lui, also raise prize-winning paint horses, a breed that is likely descended from the original pinto horses that the Comanche brought with them on their migration from the high plains of Montana and the Dakotas to the southern plains of Oklahoma and Texas. Andersen left a long career as a commercial artist and illustrator in Chicago and New York to become a western artist in 1981. He first pursued that career in Arizona and then moved to Kerrville in 2000. Throughout his career he has explored the cultures of the Plains Indians, both the northern tribes, such as the Sioux, Cheyenne, Blackfeet, and Crow, and the southern tribes, such as the Comanche, Apache, and Kiowa. His move to Texas has increased his interest in the southern plains tribes, and much of his work is now devoted to their culture and history. Andersen combines a realistic style that he uses to portray his main figures and an abstract method of creating the colorful and broadly painted backgrounds against which the figures are set. The Trace Leads South is typical of his best work, and shows a group of Indians following a well worn trail, or trace, to their hunting grounds.


More information about ROY ANDERSEN. See also: Andersen, Roy, Roy Andersen Artist.

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