Participating Artists

    • Bill Anton
    • Bill Anton

    Bill Anton

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    The moment in the early 1960s when Bill Anton first saw the Rocky Mountains of northwestern Montana, he gave his heart and mind over to the expansive Western landscape. Exposed to art and museums early in life, Anton developed a talent for drawing and painting, which was nurtured by contemporary masters Ned Jacob, Jim Reynolds, and Michael Lynch. Anton greatly admires the work of the master of Western painting, Frank Tenney Johnson, and the California Impressionists of the last century, primarily Edgar Payne.

    Wild and Rugged: oil on linen, 30 x 48 in. ($30,000, sold)
    Along the Rim: oil on linen, 12 x 22 in. ($7,000, sold)
    An Old Friend: oil on linen, 24 x 30 in. ($15,000, sold)
    Racing the Weather: oil on linen, 30 x 36 in. ($20,000, sold)
    Early Riser: oil on linen, 10 x 12 in. ($3,800, sold)
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    Anton’s work has remained in high demand. He exhibits yearly in several invitational shows, including the Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition and Sale at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. He lives with his family just outside Prescott, Arizona.

    At the 2009 Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition and Sale, Anton received the Pat and Bill Burford / Texas Art Gallery Spirit of the West Award, given in recognition of the most outstanding work in cowboy subject matter, for his painting New Mexico Morning. In 2009 he also won the Express Ranches Great American Cowboy Award for Easy Does It and the Robert Lougheed Memorial Award for the best display of three or more works at the Prix de West in Oklahoma City.

    Bill Anton is represented by Settlers West Galleries Inc., Tucson, Arizona; Trailside Galleries, Jackson, Wyoming, and Scottsdale, Arizona; and Whistle Pik Galleries, Fredericksburg, Texas.