InSight Gallery, Fredericksburg, TX
April 3-24
One of only 19 active members of the Cowboy Artists of America, Bruce Greene grew up and still resides in Texas ranching country where he has been making art based on his lived experience for more than five decades. Any show of his work counts as a significant event for lovers of Western art; consequently, InSight Gallery expects a large turnout for the artist’s latest show, aptly titled The Enduring West. The exhibition debuts on April 3 as part of Fredericksburg, Texas’s well-attended First Friday Artwalk, followed by a reception on April 18 from 5 to 7 p.m. where Greene expects to greet visitors and share some insights and anecdotes.
The Familiar Solitude, oil, 30 x 30.
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- Untitled, ink, 17.5 x 10.5.
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- The Dance, bronze, 22 x 39 x 12
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- As Free as the Robin’s Flight, oil, 28 x 24.
Greene anticipates debuting as many as 16 pieces in a range of mediums including oils, watercolors, graphite, ink and bronze. “People ask me, ‘Which do you like doing best?’” the artist explains. “What I like is that I can go back and forth, and I don’t ever get burned out.” The resulting freshness of vision is vividly on display.
Somewhere West of Wall Street, charcoal, 17 x 14.
THE FAMILIAR SOLITUDE, for example, captures in oil paint a cowboy’s awe as he witnesses the dawn. “As a friend of mine put it one time, ‘I’ve been blessed to see the sun come up through my horse’s ears,’” says Greene. Switching to the more muted tones of gouache, the artist evokes bygone times in THE STRAWBERRY ROAN, inspired by the classic song of the same title made famous in the late 1950s by singer Marty Robbins. Still another deft marriage of subject and medium can be witnessed in SOMEWHERE WEST OF WALL STREET, which captures a cowboy perusing The Wall Street Journal, which wryly captures in brisk graphite strokes the quiet contentment of “a guy who could be making more money in the stock market than he does with his livestock,” Greene adds.
The Strawberry Roan, gouache, 28 x 22.
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- The Horseman’s Loop, bronze, 24 x 8.
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- Flushed, bronze wall mount, 53 x 29.
Among the artist’s sculptures in the show is a 53-inch-tall wall-mounted piece titled FLUSHED, which shows the horse, the cowboy riding him and the cattle they’re herding all suddenly react to a covey of quail flushed from the undergrowth. This latest look at a subject that he has already depicted as both an oil painting and a free-standing bronze particularly excites Greene because, he says, “doing it as a panel, I can tell more of the full story.” It’s almost as if the artist is painting three-dimensionally in bronze, both literally and figuratively bringing greater depth to his art in work that might well be viewed as the natural outcome of his lifetime of experience both in the studio and in the saddle.
Indeed, notes InSight Gallery co-owner Elizabeth Harris, “Bruce’s work is always true to the Western lifestyle he lives, knows and loves. He doesn’t follow trends or try to be something he’s not.” To her, and as to many of his devoted collectors, she adds, Greene is “creating something permanent from a lifestyle that is vanishing all too quickly.” —Norman Kolpas
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This story appeared in the April/May 2026 issue of Southwest Art magazine. Subscribe today to read every issue in its entirety.