From Wild Women to the Wild Plains

Inspired by 19th-century French military painters, such as Alphonse De Neuville and Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille, New York City artist Ron Lesser is primarily known for depicting the Civil War. Although his Civil War wall paintings are his main priority, Lesser has a much longer history illustrating the West. You’ve surely seen the promotional posters he’s painted for movies such as High Plains Drifter, The Way West and Paint Your Wagon. In the mid-1990s, however, computer-generated art