Don Crowley

Don Crowley was born in 1926 in Redlands, California, and after his 1944 high school graduation he served in the U.S. Merchant Marines and the U.S. Navy for four years. He then attended the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, where he met his wife, Betty Jayne, a fellow artist. In 1953, they married and moved to New York City, where he was a successful commercial artist for 20 years before moving to Tucson, Arizona, in 1974.

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Crowley is equally accomplished in the use of oil, watercolor, and pencil. His paintings of Native Americans reflect meticulous attention to detail. He is a member of the Cowboy Artists of America and the Tucson 7 artists’ group.

He exhibits annually at the Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition and Sale at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. In 1999, Crowley’s painting The Laundress won the Masters of the American West Award, given in recognition of the work acquired for the Autry National Center of the American West’s permanent collection. At the 2006 Cowboy Artists of America Sale and Exhibition in Phoenix, Arizona, Crowley won the Gold Medal for Oil Painting, and at the 2009 show he won the Silver Medal for Drawing.

Don Crowley is represented by Borsini-Burr Gallery, Montara, California; and InSight Gallery, Fredericksburg, Texas.