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Roger Ayres

Roger Ayres (20th century) was active/lived in New Mexico.  Roger Ayres is known for Western landscape, figure-cowboy.

The following is from The Taos Gallery Scottsdale

ROGER AYRES
Living in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Ayres paints western subjects from first-hand exposure to western life. He spent his childhood on a farm near Gruver in the Panhandle of Texas and then worked as a foreman on a ranch in Nebraska. He reminisces about the camaraderie among cowboys and the open hearted, warm sharing that characterizes isolated rural communities.

However, from earliest childhood, he wanted to be an artist. "I enjoyed drawing horses and cattle, and I was good at it. And those animals never complained about the likeness." When he gave the woman who owned the Nebraska ranch a painting, she said: "Why on earth are you cowboying for a living when you can do something like this?"

Reportedly this incident caused him to commit seriously to his artistic talent, and he enrolled in a drawing class but had to travel sixty miles each way to attend. Previous to this time, from 1975 to 1979, he had   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2509 characters.]  Artist bio

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