"Ranch Life Inspires Painter," by Ollie Reed Jr., December 29, 2018, online, The Albuquerque Journal

SAPELLO – Gary Morton, time-tested cowboy and talented, point-on painter of the puncher life, is standing in the back room of his house, portions of which are a log cabin built a hundred years ago in this small community a dozen miles north of Las Vegas, N.M.
For a normal person this would be the living room,” says Morton of the space, flooded by late-morning winter light from a north-facing window. For Morton, it’s a studio outfitted with an easel, paints, brushes, prints and paintings finished and in progress.

Outside that north window are wide-open spaces stretching across pasture to mountains studded with piñon an...