“I had a cowboy who came to one of my shows and exclaimed, ‘This isn’t Western art!’” Thom Ross says. “And every painting was of Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday or Butch Cassidy.But because it wasn’t just like all the other crap he had been told was Western art, it followed, in his mind, that therefore this just could not be Western art.” These reactions frustrate the abstract Western artist. In Ross’s mind, Western artists of today are merely reproducing clichés that sell ins
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