With a studio part time in Hulett, Wyoming, population 408, and the remainder of the year in California, Bob Coronato is a painter of cowboys and Indians in highly realistic style. From his childhood, he had a love of western subject matter. Of being a student at the Otis Institute of Fine Art in Los Angeles and doing western subjects, he said: "I almost got thrown out of my last two years in art school because I turned every assignment into a Western painting."

In 1993, he had a one-person show at the High Plains Western Heritage Center in Spearfish, South Dakota. At that time he was doing paintings from research of the Old West, but realizing this approach was subject to errors, switched to painting contempo...