William Foster Reese (Washington, 1938-2010), "Approaching Winter", oil on panel

sight: 24 x 30 in., frame: 32 x 38 in.

Provenance: Property from the lifelong collection of a prominent artist in San Antonio, Texas

A painter of western genre, William Reese was raised on his family's cattle ranch in central Washington state and from that time had a love of horses, which is obvious in many of his western paintings. Reese was educated at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles and at Washington State University, Pullman. His grandmother gave him his first art lessons, using a text book by Charles Lederer, Drawing Made Easy. Of that book, Reese said: "I still have it, or what's left of it. I devoured that book." Suffering from lung disease, Reese nearly died at age 31, but refusing to give in, determined to live his dreams of painting and traveling and playing the guitar, something he did several hours each day. His first major exhibition was in 1972 at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle.

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