Frank Romero USA, b. 1941
Cowboy, 2024
Acrylic on paper
24 x 18 in
61 x 45.7 cm
61 x 45.7 cm
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Romero’s interest in the look and culture of cowboys and their Western regalia sprouted when he was a boy, and he shared a love for the vintage film archetype with...
Romero’s interest in the look and culture of cowboys and their Western regalia sprouted when he was a boy, and he shared a love for the vintage film archetype with his younger brothers. “It's so interesting that all those movies that made such an impression on me as a young man were movies that were actually made in the thirties in Hollywood. So it's interesting that we grew up in the fifties watching cowboy movies from the thirties, because [they] were rehashed. That was the first recycling of a culture, I think, in our society. Because that's what TV does, in a sense-or did, you know?”
Provenance
Frank Romero StudioExhibitions
De aquí y de allá: Frank Romero, A Survey, Ruiz-Healy Art, New York; curator: Rafael Barrientos Martínez, 2024Literature
“De aquí y de allá: Frank Romero, A Survey,” Meer, December 11, 2024. (illustrated)Exhibition catalogue, De aquí y de allá: Frank Romero, A Survey, Ruiz-Healy Art: New York / San Antonio, 2024 (illustrated)
