Duane Bryers

A talented and successful painter who settled in Sonoita, Arizona, Duane was raised in Virginia, Minnesota, where one of his early paintings was a commissioned mural depicting the history of the mining industry of that area.

Later he served in the Air Force and started a comic strip called “Cokey” for the base newspaper, and it was eventually syndicated.  Following his discharge, he stayed with commercial art for awhile and then after moving to Tucson, Arizona, he became interested in painting the western scenes that subsequently made him famous.  He won the 1997 Prix de West Purchase and Buyers’ Choice Award at the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City.