Bill Anton
Artist
1957
BP: Chicago, IL
Anton paints and draws today's working cowboy. Drawn to the work of Edgar Payne and Frank Tenney Johnson, Bill works from field studies, to achieve the vitality photos cannot match, primarily in oil. Born and raised in Chicago, Anton drew constantly from the time he was old enough to hold a pencil, turning to western art full time in 1982. He settled permanently in Arizona with his wife, Peggy where he became inspired with Western painting depicting cowboy lifestyle. His inspiration was fueled by a Cowboy Artist of America Exhibition in the late 1970s at the Phoenix Art Museum. In an interview he said, “The cowboy is connected with the land, like a ponderosa pine. He is unassuming, but he can do anything... A painting all starts with my own reverence and excitement with that person on horseback. I never get tired of the nobility of a man on horseback.”
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