mercredi 27 novembre 2013


By :John Fawcett

 from Iowa, US
- watercolor; 21 x 16 in -

http://www.johnfawcettstudio.com/
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John Fawcett was a practicing veterinarian for 20 years before selling his practice in 1996 to fully devote his time to painting. Working in watercolor and oil, his firsthand knowledge of animals is evident in his work.
Fawcett has been invited to show his work at the Autry National Center of the American West’s Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition and Sale, where he won the Autry National Center Award for Watercolor in 2006; the Cheyenne Frontier Days Western Art Show and Sale in Wyoming, where he won the Museum Purchase Award in 2006; and the Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming, where he won the Artists’ Choice Award 1996.
He was selected for the Top 100 Arts for the Parks in 1996, 1997, and 1999, where he won the U.S. Art Award of Merit in 1997, and he was inducted as an Honorary Lifetime Artist Member of the Mountain Oyster Club in Tucson, Arizona, in 1997. He was inducted as a full lifetime member of the American Academy of Equine Art in 2002 and was named the 2009 Artist of the Year by Tucson’s Friends of Western Art. Fawcett was the featured artist in the September 2008 issue of Western Art Collector and the May/June 2009 issue of Art of the West magazine. His work has also appeared in Equine Image, InformArt, Southwest Art, U.S. Art, and Western Horseman.

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