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LARRY  CREMEENS             Online Gallery

Larry's  inspiration for painting comes from the Western landscape and the people, animals, and spirits who are a part of that landscape. He has a keen interest in the history of Native Americans and of their present culture.  Cremeens is particularly talented at capturing the action and vivid color of ceremonial regalia and dances.

He studied painting and drawing as an undergraduate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After moving to the West, he studied under several famous contemporary Western artists: John Coleman, William Scott Jennings, Mehl Lawson, John and Terri Moyers, Ralph Oberg, Matt Smith, and Curt Walters.  
Larry Cremeens' paintings of the people of the American West have remarkable beauty and passion - he is represented by the Cowboy Legacy Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona.  The gallery will hold a reception for him on October 7th.  The show will run from October 7 through October 18, 2010. Cowboy Legacy Gallery is located at 7077 E. Main Street, Scottsdale, Arizona.  480-595-8999.

                                                                                             
                                                                                                                               Artist:  Larry Cremeens  

                                       Collectors Jim & Shirley Boylan and artist Larry Cremeens                                                    Collectors Roger & Barbara Garrett 
                                                     Collectors attended the show of Larry Cremeens held at the White Horse Station Gallery in Clifton, Texas in May, 2010

Every August, Larry attends the annual Artist Ride, a three-day-long, invitation-only event that re-creates Wild West tableaux for artists.  The characters decked out in Native American and Wild West regalia are models, and most of the photographers are oil painters, sculptors and watercolorists who specialize in scenes of the Old West.   The Artist Ride is held at Grant Shearer's 20,000-acre ranch near Wall, South Dakota.

Living the Dream.
Some kids wanted to be cowboys or fireman – I always wanted to be an artist.    Now the Dream is real!!  I live and paint in the Southwest creating the spirit of the American West with paintings of cowboys, Native Americans, horses and cattle.   Art transforms and enriches people’s lives.  I want to share with the viewer through my paintings, the beauty and power of the American West.

Keep following your DREAMS.
I am an artist who as a small child, growing up in Northwest Indiana , dreamed and drew pictures of the Southwest.  I could only imagine what the Southwest looked like, because my reality was steel mills, refineries, flat land and gray skies.

(An untitled work by L. Cremeens, at eight years old)

                                                                                                             
Larry has been juried into exhibits at the La Quinta Festival of Arts,  Phippen Museum Fine Art Show, Sonoran Festival of Fine Art, Breckenridge Art Festival, Carefree Fine Art & Wine Festival, The Thunderbird Artists Shows, Arizona Fine Art Expo and the 23rd Annual Bosque Conservatory Art Classic in Clifton, TX. Larry has had two one-man gallery shows and is represented by the White Horse Station Gallery in Clifton, TX. and the Cowboy Legacy Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ. 

Take a look around, click on the Newest Paintings link below, and enjoy the impressions, the beauty and the awesome power of Larry Cremeens' magnificent work.