Texas artist Tony Pro is currently preparing paintings he will exhibit at Night of Artists at the Briscoe Western Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas, in March. It’s his third year in the show, and he’s excited about it, calling his works for that event a love story to the American West and to his own artistic trajectory.
“The unique component of my art is the narrative depth,” he says. “Each piece tells a profound story, reflecting personal and historical themes. This storytelling, combined with my technical expertise and attention to cultural and historical details, sets my work apart.”
Pro recalls boyhood trips and seeing the vast landscapes of the New Mexico and Arizona deserts from the back seat of the family car. They’d travel for about six weeks each year and visit Western art shows and Hopi and Navajo reservations, which piqued the boy’s imagination about life in the Old West, something that continues today. He sees a renewed interest in the Western history and finds that the best way to help stimulate that interest is to tell stories through Western art.
Read the full article in the January/February 2025 issue.
Lunar Embrace
Oil
28″ by 22″
Twilight Companions
Oil
20″ by 24″
