Bill Barrick (b. 1945), "The Silver Lining", dated 1991, oil on canvas, framed

sight: 9 x 12", frame: 18.5 x 22.5"

Provenance: A Midland, TX Estate

Remnants of rural America are the principle focus of paintings by Bill Barrick. He is a chronicler of life in the developing Southwest. Much of his work pays tribute to early settlers who broke untamed prairies and established the roots from which sprang the villages, towns, and industry that lead to our contemporary culture. His desire to capture on canvas the spirit of rural America with its stark beauty, hardship, and simple joys is the driving force and appeal of his art.
You won't see any cowboys or Indians in Barrick's paintings because he feels that despite their great prominence in television and movies and art, they were not the ones who really established the permanent foundation on which the modern Southwest was born. To the contrary, Barrick contends that the credit should go to the farmer, and he says, "I disagree with the idea that the cowboy was the main instrument in the development of the West and Southwest. I think agriculture and farmers did more that anyone, because they were the people who settled down and established something."

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