THE COWBOYS

RE: THE COWBOYS, a series of acrylic paintings.

Jack Cassady’s “The Cowboys” are about nature, color, action, man and his horse, and the legend of the west.

The concept originated in 1989, the artist was born and raised in the west at the height of the cinema’s and television’s infatuation with the Western, there was Hop a Long Cassidy, the Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers & Dale Evens, etc.  Every boy wanted to be a cowboy, and spent every spare minute pretending he was one.  This series is about those feeling he had as a kid and much more, for it wasn’t enough to have just an image of a cowboy but the bands of color adjacent to the image of the cowboy portray the inner and or the abstract feelings the artist was experiencing at the time.  Jack is still not sure why he had to paint the cowboys; all he knows is that he had to paint them.  The bands of color add something fresh, the unknown, a twist, and a soul perhaps.

In 1992 “Cowboy # 6” was exhibited in “Art Contemporain du Canada”, in Paris, France.  A number of the paintings are in private collections, and have been exhibited in Toronto.

Jack painted this series as a way to remember parts of his childhood and perhaps a need to express his passion for nature.