Bruce Greene Works

Bruce Greene

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1953 -

Bruce Greene is one of the legitimate heirs to a cowboy kind of art legacy that traces its beginning back to Charlie Russell.  It is a legacy that is tied hard and fast to a familiarity and feeling for ranch life reality and based on a bedrock of artistic accomplishment.

Way out in West Texas on historic ranches such as the JA and the Four Sixes, Bruce has discovered and tapped into a deep reservoir of cowboy reality.  He has enough artistic inspiration to last a lifetime.

Bruce has seen the sun come up between his horse's ears on the backside of those big Panhandle pastures. It is this privileged perspective that enables him to show us, through his art, the authentic essence of the contemporary cowboy. There will come a time when the cowboys of today will look at Bruce Greene's art and smile at the memory of the way their world once was.

Bruce was elected to membership in the Cowboy Artists of America in 1993 and has served terms as president in both 2002 and 2013.  He has served as the president of the Cowboy Artists of America Joe Beeler Foundation in 2019.  He has been honored to receive numerous awards in sculpture, paintings and drawings in the exhibits of the Cowboy Artist of America.  He was very pleased to receive the Ray Swanson Memorial Award for his painting "When Freedom Isn't Free" in 2007 and "In The Brazos de Dios" in 2012.  Bruce received the Traditional Cowboy Artists Association award for a work best representing the cowboy in 2009 for painting and 2010 for sculpture.  He was inducted into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2018 located in Ft .Worth, Texas.  At the 2018 Prix de West, he received the Donald Teague Award and is honored to be the Bolo artist for 2019.

In 1991, Bruce and wife, Janie, restored an 1883 farmstead outside of Clifton, Texas, where they continue to enjoy the beauty and the people of the Texas hill country. The old house is regularly filled with the sounds of family and friends. Their three children, with their spouses and nine grandchildren, know it as a home away from home.