Bill Owen

Living in Kirkland, Arizona, and born in Gila Bend, Bill Owen is a painter in realist style of western genre, a subject and method near to his family because his father was a cowboy and his mother an artist. His painting skills have earned him membership and special recognition in western-art related organizations: the Cowboy Artists of America, which he joined in 1973, and the National Academy of Western Artists in 1991. In 1993, he received the Frederic Remington Award for Artistic Merit from the Cowboy Hall of Fame, and three years later, he was designated Rendezvous Artist by the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma.