Bob Coronato

“I used to open books and look at the Old West photos, see cowboys riding the open plains, and think, ‘I wish I lived 100 years ago,’” says Bob Coronato. “After going out to the very remote West, and finding ranches that still ‘cowboy’ in the old ways, I realized that the West I was searching for as a kid was still there.”

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Coronato attended Otis-Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles, and on graduation moved to a town called Hulett (pop. 408), where he found the West he was looking for.

“Before long, ‘the West’ will be gone,” he says. “We are at a clash of times in which traditional cowboying ways are being overridden by modern technologies. The subjects of my work remind people that there still is a remote, free West, and that we are not a completely modern country just yet. I feel proud to have been lucky enough to be part of this final chapter in the history of the American frontier. For now, ‘the West’ is alive; it’s just hiding in small corners of our country, trying desperately to hang on and not be forgotten.”

He won the Grand Prize, Best in Show, at the 2002 Artists of the New Century show, Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, Vermont. This is his first time participating in the Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition and Sale. He and his work have been featured in Art of the West and Southwest Art magazines.

Coronato currently resides half of each year in Atascadero, California, and the other half in Hulett, Wyoming.

Bob Coronato is represented by Borsini-Burr Gallery, Montara, California; Legacy Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, and Jackson, Wyoming; and Settlers West Galleries Inc., Jackson, Wyoming, and Scottsdale, Arizona. Giclée reproductions of his work are available through Greenwich Workshop dealers.