Growing up in rural Colorado surrounded by nature, Jean G. Green had the seed of art planted early in life. That seed took root at 22 years old, when Green began serious art studies, taking oil painting classes and making many trips to art museums to study the best.
Full Day Ahead, oil on linen, 20 x 30 in.
The West kept beckoning, although early on Green didn’t expect to follow the path of Western art. And yet, ranch life kept showing up at her door. The small ranching town in the Colorado high country, where she attended college to study fine art, was where the West eventually recruited her. “During a harsh winter there, I watched a cattle rancher with ice frozen to his beard...use large work horses hitched to a sled piled high with hay to feed his cattle in winter...It was because he couldn’t get his tractor started in the freezing temperatures,” Green says. “I was so enamored with this. The Western life was all around me.”
A Lucky Find, oil on linen, 24 x 18 in.
Green likes to paint cowboys, mountain men, Native Americans and ranch animals. Her work will be in the exhibition Art of the Plains June 27 to August 4 at Fort Concho National Historic Landmark in San Angelo, Texas. —
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