The February 2023 issue of Western Art Collector featured Kevin Chupik’s painting Continental Cowboy on the cover. Readers took immediate notice of the Texas-based painter. One of those readers was Seth Hopkins, the executive director of the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia.
“Credit where credit is due, I saw Kevin’s work on the cover of Western Art Collector.When I saw it, I was immediately taken by it and I was impressed at the cool contemporary Western imagery he was painting,” Hopkins says. “When I went to his website I was struck by the entire body of his work. I immediately reached out and asked about getting a piece for the Booth collection. Kevin was very nice, but he told me he had a long line of people who wanted work and nothing was available. I told him to just keep us posted.”
Kevin Chupik, Desert Ratio, acrylic on birch, 36 x 48"
It wasn’t long after that Hopkins started receiving images of new works that were coming off Chupik’s easel. Very soon after, the Booth was making arrangements to acquire Desert Ratio, a 48-inch-wide painting of a cowboy standing underneath modern architecture at the edge of Monument Valley. Hopkins was even in Texas to witness some of the final brushstrokes go on the painting.
“It’s important to always be looking for new and fresh ideas on the West, particularly works we can add to the contemporary potion of our collection at the Booth,” Hopkins says. “We’re thrilled to have a work by Kevin in the collection, and even more thrilled to see where his career goes from here. He’s an exciting artist.”
Desert Ratio will be on view at the Booth later this winter and spring. For information, visit www.boothmuseum.org. —
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