Gordon Fowler
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Big Oak Annandale Ranch •
Little Bee Creek •
Blues on the Loop •
Pedernales Fall
Texas Prickly
Old Paint
Eagles Nest •
Big Cypress •
Honey Creek Fall
Winter Lace Frio Headwaters •
The Whiskey Tree
Evening Oak •
Bull Creekside •
Bluebonnets South Texas •
Brush Country
Vintage Texas Barn
Bull Creek Bank •
Bull Creek Bottom
Hill Country
Brush Country Study
Guadalupe Bluffs
Blanco Riverbed
Pomegranate
Fall Vines
Creek's Edge
Guadalupe Bluffs
Roses
Spring Oak
Along the Frio
Taos Barn
Spring Runoff
Taos Barns
Cliffside
Leaky Antique Store
White Rock
In the Tack Room
Isle de Re
Harbor
Old Timers
Tall Cypress
Big Oak Annandale Ranch, 2022
oil on canvas, 10 x 12 inches, sold
Little Bee Creek , 2022
oil on canvas, 36 x 24 inches, sold
Blues on the Loop, 2022
oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches, sold
Pedernales Fall, 2022
oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches, $3400
Texas Prickly
oil on panel, 14x18 inches, $2000
Old Paint, 2022
oil on canvas, 12 x 16 inches, $1800
Eagles Nest , 2022
oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches, sold
Big Cypress, 2022
oil on canvas, 10 x 12 inches, sold
Honey Creek Fall , 2022
oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches, $6500
Winter Lace Frio Headwaters, 2022
oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches, sold
The Whiskey Tree, 2022
oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches, $6500
Evening Oak, 2022
oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches, sold
Bull Creekside, 2022
oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches, sold
Bluebonnets South Texas, 2022
oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches, sold
Brush Country, 2022
oil on canvas, 12 x 16 inches, $1800
Vintage Texas Barn, 2022
oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches, $2500
Bull Creek Bank, 2022
oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches, sold
Bull Creek Bottom, 2022
oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches, $4800
Hill Country, 2022
oil on canvas, 12 x 16 inches, $1800
Brush Country Study, 2022
oil on canvas, 10 x 12 inches, $1275
Guadalupe Bluffs, 2018
watercolor on paper, 22 x 30 inches, $2800
Blanco Riverbed, 2018
watercolor on paper, 22 x 30 inches, $2800
Pomegranate, 2018
watercolor on paper, 10 x 14 inches, $1000
Fall Vines, 2018
watercolor on paper, 30 x 22 inches, $2800
Creek's Edge, 2018
watercolor on paper, 22 x 30 inches, $2800
Guadalupe Bluffs, 2017
oil on canvas panel, 36 x 48 inches, $6500
Roses, 2017
oil on canvas panel, 24 x 18 inches, $3400
Spring Oak, 2017
oil on canvas panel, 18 x 24 inches, $3400
Along the Frio, 2017
oil on canvas panel, 14 x 18 inches, $2000
Taos Barn, 2017
oil on canvas panel, 12 x 10 inches, $1200
Spring Runoff, 2017
oil on canvas panel, 14 x 18 inches, $2000
Taos Barns, 2017
oil on canvas panel, 12 x 16 inches, $1800
Cliffside, 2017
oil on canvas panel, 12 x 16 inches, $1800
Leaky Antique Store, 2015
oil on canvas panel, 10 x 12 inches, $1200
White Rock, 2014
oil on linen panel, 16 x 12 inches, $1800
In the Tack Room, 2014
oil on linen panel, 12 x 16 inches, $1800
Isle de Re
oil on board, 9 x 12 inches, $1200
Harbor
oil on canvas, 16 x 20 image, 24 x 28 inches framed, $2000
Old Timers, 2012
oil on canvas panel, 12 x 16 inches unframed, $1400
Tall Cypress, 2014
oil on linen panel, 12 x 10 inches, $1200
About the artist...
View Gordon's 2022 Artist Talk and Tour.
Take a virtual tour of Fowler's 2017 show at Wally Workman Gallery here.
Take a virtual tour of Fowler's 2015 show at Wally Workman Gallery here.
"Painting the Texas landscape for more than 50 years has instilled a sense of duty in me to record the beauty of our incredible state. We are losing a great deal of our scenic state to development. It’s harder to find undisturbed vistas to paint every year. Thanks to some patron ranchers, I’m able to get off the highway and paint mostly unchanged scenes. I painted a whole show on the Annandale Ranch, with 6 miles of Frio River running through it. Many smaller spreads have given me access through the years. I try to be honest about my subjects and paint them as I see and feel about them. I’m proud to be one of Texas Parks and Wildlife”s Centennial artists. I was assigned Bastrop State Park and Honey Creek Park to paint for the 100th anniversary show in 2023. I had a chance to change the Bastrop assignment due to the fire damage but chose to paint it. It deserves a place in the show. My piece is titled Coming Back.
Texas is hardscrabble in many areas, rough and scraggly, challenging to paint, but that makes for good, abstract design. Like in Guy Clark’s song, Desperados, I’m pushing eighty, but I plan to paint and teach until the cows come home."
Fowler is a native Texan, a man of many talents and numerous accomplishments, who has led a colorful and impassioned life. He is a former high school quarterback and a lapsed rock and roll musician. As a marine combat correspondent in Vietnam in 1967-68, he won two Purple Hearts andthe Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. (The character named Cowboy in Stanley Kubrick's movie "Full Metal Jacket" is based on Fowler.) He built his father's small business, Wick Fowler's Two-Alarm Chili, into a prominent national company. He opened La Zona Rosa, a popular Austin restaurant and night-club made semi-famous in 1995 by the hit country song "Amy's Back InAustin." Fowler is a devoted plein air painter, creating fresh, natural canvasses entirely on location. He has taught watercolor at The University of Texas as well as at The Austin Museum of Art. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums from Santa Fe to Kennebunkport and throughout Texas, and he has received awards for both his watercolors and his oils.