Bob Wygant
1927-2008
BORN IN
Houston, Texas
KNOWN FOR
Horse and riders in western landscape, cowboy genre
NAME VARIATIONS
Charles Robert Wygant, Jr.
A Texas painter, Bob Wygant creates traditional and romantic, panoramic western landscapes, often with diminished figures of cowboys on horses in river valleys against mountain backdrops. He also does an occasional still life as well as wildlife subjects.
His primary medium is acrylic, and the tone of his paintings is quietude. Of his work, he has said: “I am interested in establishing a mood in my paintings and not a meaning. It is the viewer who brings the meaning to the work.”(Depot) He is ever challenged by questions such as: “Who walked here? What was it like? What would I have been doing if I had lived in this place 100 years ago? What strangers have passed here?”