Headin' for the Barn

In the summer, on the working ranches of today, cowboys try to get their work done early before the danger of an afternoon thunderstorm appears.  Each day is a new adventure, a reason to carry a rain slicker.  However, the real danger is not from getting wet, but from getting struck by lightening.

In this painting the thunderstorm has come early, just before quittin’-time. The cowboy has dismounted, he is “HEADIN’ FOR THE BARN”.

The winner of the Gold Medal for Other Media in the 1981 Cowboy Artists of America Show at The Phoenix Art Museum.