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William Matthews Biography |
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William Matthews was born in 1949 in New York City. He grew up in the Bay area. Matthews career began in Los Angeles as a graphics artist designing album covers for Warner Bros., and Capital Records.
The published monograph Cowboys & Images: The Watercolors of William Matthews features a decade of the artist’s work devoted to the subject of the working cowboys from the grand ranches of the American West. Forbes and FYI magazine hailed him as the new Remington of American painting. Other areas of study are included in the following Exhibition catalogs: Fast Horses, Ireland, Heart Land, China, The Blue Nile, and Sketches of Spain. Between 1975 and 1980, he traveled throughout Spain, North Africa, Egypt and Great Britain in search of subject matters for paintings. MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS 1999 Outward Bound: American Art at the Brink of the Twenty-First Century, Meridian International Center, Washington, D.C., The Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam, The Museum of Fine Arts, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, The Painting Institute, Shanghai, China, The Singapore Museum of Art, Singapore. Traveling Exhibition through Summer 2000. 1998 Cowboys & Images: The Watercolors of William Matthews, Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS 1996 Cowboys & Images: The Watercolors of William Matthews, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, Traveling Exhibit 1995 - 1996 Covering the West: The Best of Southwest Art Magazine, Traveling Exhibit; National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona, Museum of the Horse, Ruidoso, New Mexico, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado 1994 William Matthews: Cowboys & Images, American Quarter Horse Heritage Center and Museum, Amarillo, Texas SELECTED COMMISSIONS 2001 Four Illustrations for the play, Arcadia by Tom Stoppard. Limited Edition book published by Arion Press, San Francisco, California. SELECTED DESIGN COMMISSIONS & WARNER WESTERN RECORDS COMMISSIONS 1997 Waddie Mitchell; Live, Scott O’Malley & Associates, Colorado Springs, Colorado (original artwork for Compact Disc cover) Gary McMahan, Poems and Yodels, Horse Apple Records, Bellvue, Colorado (original artwork for cassette cover) 1997 Wild Horse Handling with Bryan Neubert, B&P Neubert Enterprises, Alturas, California (original artwork for video cassette cover) 1996 Christmas in the West, Warner Western Records, Nashville, Tennessee 1995 Sagebrush Symphony, Michael Martin Murphey, Warner Western Records, Nashville, Tennessee Rocky Grass, Planet Bluegrass, Lyons, Colorado Born to this Land, Red Steagall, Warner Western Records 1994 The Bronze Buckaroo, Herb Jeffries, Warner Western Records, Nashville, TN America’s Horses, Michael Martin Murphey, Warner Western Records, Nashville, TN 1993 Buckaroo Poet, Waddie Mitchell, Warner Western Records, Nashville, Tennessee Warner Western Sampler, Vol. 2, Warner Western Records, Nashville, Tennessee Wind in the Wire, Randy Travis, Warner Western Records, Nashville, Tennessee Rhymes of the Renegades, Michael Martin Murphey, Warner Western Records, Nashville, Tennessee Songs of the Silver Screen, Sons of the San Joaquin, Warner Western Records, Nashville, Tennessee A Cowboy has to Sing, Sons of the San Joaquin, Warner Western Records, Nashville, Tennessee The Red Road, Bill Miller, Warner Western Records, Nashville, Tennessee 1992 Goin Back to Texas, Don Edwards, Warner Western Records SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS: Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Aspen, Colorado Napa Valley Heritage Fund, Napa Valley, California National Western Headquarters, Denver, Colorado Western Folklife Center, Elko, Nevada Gilman Paper Company, New York, New York Tiger Collection, Boston, Massachusetts Equitable Bankshares, Denver, Colorado Old West Museum, Cheyenne, Wyoming Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, Georgia Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado |
