Artist Focus: Bruce Greene

Painter and sculptor Bruce Greene is currently preparing a new solo show at InSight Gallery in Fredericksburg, Texas. The solo exhibition will kick off with an opening reception on April 17. Greene has been a longtime artist at the Texas gallery.

The Familiar Solitude, oil, 30 x 30 in.

“Bruce Greene is one of the legitimate heirs to a cowboy kind of art legacy that traces its beginning back to Charlie Russell. It is a legacy that is tied hard and fast to a familiarity and feeling for ranch life reality and based on a bedrock of artistic accomplishment. Way out in West Texas, on historic ranches such as the JA and the Four Sixes, Bruce has discovered and tapped into a deep reservoir of cowboy reality. He has enough artistic inspiration to last a lifetime,” the gallery says. “Bruce has seen the sun come up between his horse’s ears on the backside of those big Panhandle pastures. It is this privileged perspective that enables him to show us, through his art, the authentic essence of the contemporary cowboy. There will come a time when the cowboys of today will look at Bruce Greene’s art and smile at the memory of the way their world once was.”

The Dance, bronze, 22 x 12¾ x 38½ in.

The artist has been a member of the Cowboy Artists of America since 1993 and has served terms as president in both 2002 and 2013. He has also served as the president of the Cowboy Artists of America’s Joe Beeler Foundation in 2019. Additionally, he has received countless CA medals—for paintings, works on paper and sculpture—at the annual CA exhibition, which was held most recently in Fort Worth, Texas, in November 2025. Greene was also inducted into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame, also in Fort Worth, in 2018. —