Friends of Western Art Artist of the Year: Buck McCain
Established by the Tucson Festival Society and subsequently carried on by the Friends of Western Art, this annual exhibition has acknowledged some of the most highly celebrated western artists in American. Self-taught painter and sculptor Buck McCain translates the dreams and history of the western sensibility through the expressive language of his art.
Charlotte Berney of Focus Santa Fe summed up McCain's work best writing, "Buck's paintings and sculptures of cowboy life, of Indians, of the mountains, desert, and people he know so well have made him one of the Southwest's best-loved living artists. He can capture the immortal, seeing with the trained eye the real, the true, and the archetypical [sic] in all that he creates. From his monumental sculptures to small intimate studies of the human figure, Buck McCain portrays the essence of his subject in a way that speaks to every viewer in a personal and moving way."
