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Donna Howell-Sickles

Donna Howell-Sickles (Born 1949) is active/lives in Texas.  Donna Howell Sickles is known for Action cowgirl figure paintings, sculpture.

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Donna Howell-Sickles' subject of empowered cowgirl figures dates back to 1972 when she stumbled across a 1950s hand-tinted postcard.  It featured a waving cowgirl and under it was the inscription: "Greetings for a Real Cowgirl of the Southwest."  The notion of a woman sitting atop her horse in period costume appealed to the artist. "But back then I didn't think they were real cowgirls," say Howell-Sickles. "At least none who might look like the one on my postcard.  The real/unreal aspect is what I liked. When I started I never gave the women faces. They had mouth, bright red mouths that were a touch off to the side. It was if you had caught a glimpse of something frozen in time. My intent was to create a generalized western persona, rather than a specific personality."

The character type, Howell-Sickles learned, was real back in the 1910s and 1920s and is readily described:  A woman who'd traveled with the Wild West Show and ridden bulls in f   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8632 characters.]  Artist bio

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