Oil pastel over acrylic painting depicts a man sitting in an American southwest setting, cactus in the background

southwestern portrait

new mexico precedent

  • series...chroma cowboys. (access)
  • title....southwestern portrait
  • medium...oil pastel. acrylic. canvas
  • size.....163 × 122 cm
  • year.....2026
  • status...placed

  • archival record: figure: seated. posture: composed. iconographic inventory: wide-brim hat. chaps. rifle. frontier horizon. saguaro. blue shirt.
  • chromatic inventory:chromatic inventory: magenta (jacket, dominant field). cobalt (shirt). chartreuse (hand right). baby blue (hand left). teal and navy (boots). background field: sustained chromatic yellow. no earth tones. no raw umber. no burnt sienna.
  • the assigned palette of the american frontier is absent. the iconography is intact. the chromatic correction has been applied in full.

  • filed under: rogue colorist. chromatic subversion. chromatic gender critique. contemporary western painting. americana. figurative non-conformity.