TOM BROWNING
B i o g r a p h y
1949 -
“I didn’t choose art as a career, it chose me” is the answer often given by Tom Browning whenever asked why he decided to become an artist. Tom began drawing horses, wildlife and Indians at age seven, and after five decades of painting and studying the work of Charlie Russell, James Reynolds, and Haddon Sundblom, Browning never tires of finding exciting ways to express this subject matter with the colorful and fluid brushwork that distinguish his place in the Western art market.
In 2009 Tom won the coveted Prix de West award for his painting ‘Dawn of a New Day’. Later that same year he was elected into the esteemed group of western artists, Cowboy Artists of America.
Today he is best known for his oil paintings portraying horse and cattle drives filled with a convincing sense of light and dust.
Latest Awards:
2009 Prix de West Purchase Award, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum
2010 Silver Medal for Oil Painting, Cowboy Artist's of America, Phoenix Art Museum
2017 Ray Swanson Award, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum
Publications:
Northlight: Browning/Timeless Techniques for Better Oil Paintings/
1994 Northlight / Metzger / Artists’s Guide to Materials and Techniques
1996 Northlight / Kipp / The Best of Flower Painting /
1997 Putnam / Browning, Maynard / Sata’s Time Off /
1997 Northlight / Wolf / The Best of Portrait Painting /
1998 Northlight/ Albert/
2003 Harper Collins / Presley/Love Me Tender
2003 Timeless Techniques for Better Oil Painting, Echo Point Books, Revised
2016 Reflections of the West, C.J. Hadley
Periodical Publications:
Art of the West March/April 1989
Southwest Art December 1990
Focus Santa Fe Nov/Dec 1992
US Art Dec 1992
Informart Jan/Feb 1993
Rainbow Spring 1994
The Santa Fean Magazine August 1994
Art of the West Nov/Dec 1994
US Art Dec 1996
Art of the West January/February 2004
Skywest Magazine Nov/Dec 2006
Persimmon Hill Magazine Spring/2009
Persimmon Hill Magazine Summer/2009
Western Art and Architecture Fall/Winter 2009
Western Horseman October/2009
Art of the West Jan/Feb 2010
Western Art and Architecture Fall/ 2010
Western Horseman August 2010
Southwest Art Magazine June 2011
Western Horseman Nov 2012
Western Horseman June 2013
Fine Art Connoisseur April 2017,
Cowboys and Indians Magazine July 2017
Art of the West October 2017
Cascade Art and Entertainment December 201
Western Art Collector October 2017