Tom Embert Phillips Antique Western Cowboy Oil Painting Vintage Horse Realism
INCREDIBLE ANTIQUE WESTERN REALISM IMPRESSIONIST OIL PAINTING ON BOARD BY RENOWNED WESTERN GENRE PAINTER AND SCULPTOR TOM EMBERT PHILLIPS. HIGHLY REGARDED AS THE POET OF THE WESTERN ARTISTS.
THIS WORK DEPICTS A SLENDER, HANDSOME COWBOY STANDING ALONGSIDE HIS TRUSTY BROWN HORSE. THE REALISM OF THE SCENE CAPTURES THE DETAILS OF THE COWBOY ATTIRE FROM HIS SUEDE COWBOY HAT HIS WETERN SHIRT ON DOWN TO HIS RUGGED DENIUM JEANS. THE IMPRESSIONIST STYLE LENDS A SENSE OF MOVEMENT AND ATMOSPHERE TO THE PAINTING WITH SOFT BRUSHSTROKES, SUGGESTING THE PLAY OF LIGHT AND SHADOW ACROSS THE EXPANSIVE HORIZON. THIS IS A VISUALLY STRIKING MASTERPIECE BY THE POET OF WESTERN ART, TOM EMBERT PHILLIPS. IT IS SIGNED IN THE LOWER LEFTHAND CORNER.
IT DATES AROUND THE 1960s. DIMENSIONS: 32" H x 28" W. Tom Embert (Thomas) Phillips (1927 - 2005) was active/lived in Oklahoma, Missouri. Tom Phillips is known for Western genre painting and sculpture. Born: 1927 - Chickasha, Oklahoma. Died: 2005 - Norman, Oklahoma. Tom Phillips was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma. His great grandfather Thomas Jefferson Phillips, who had some Native American blood, ventured to Oklahoma in the 1850s, married a Native American woman, and became a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation.By the age of nine, Phillips showed so much interest in drawing he was sent to the Helen Lorenze Art School in Oklahoma City. There, he studied the fundamentals of perspective, anatomy, and drawing landscapes until he was 16. Since then, he has studied at Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, and the Kansas City Art Institute. Phillips also studied privately with David Kreitzer out of Mill Valley, California, and Mark Anstending of San Francisco, California, who instructed him in the esoterics of sight and sound. Phillips then spent 20 years working as a commercial illustrator in New York, Colorado Springs, and Kansas City to support himself.
In 1970, he began devoting his time to painting and sculptures. He spent much time visiting ranches, reservations, and scenic attractions of the West to record the local color. The distinguishing characteristic of his work is his ability to capture subtle expressions and quiet, tender moments of reflection. Many consider him the poet of the Western artists. Phillips painted the mural behind the "Lakota Buffalo Days" Diorama housed in the Akta Lakota Museum at St.Joseph's Indian School in Chamberlain, SD. As illustrator for the American Hereford Association in Kansas City, he did many paintings, drawings, and sketches, which were on the cover and interior of national magazines.
A book, "The Sketches of Tom Phillips, " was published in 1971 and featured drawings and sketches from Hereford ranches across the country. In 1991, Tom was authorized to paint a scene from the Academy Award-winning movie Dances with Wolves, which hangs in the South Dakota Hall of Fame. Tom was recently awarded "The Master Heritage Award" by the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in Muskogee, OK. Native American artist Thomas Embert Phillips passed away Tuesday, Oct 11, 2005, in Norman.