William Matthews was born in 1949 in New York City. He grew up in the Bay area. His professional career began in Los Angeles as a graphic artist designing album covers for Warner Bros., and Capitol Records. A listing of commissioned artwork for Album Covers and Compact Discs are listed below.

The 2007 published monograph, William Matthews : Working the West, showcases the artist's work devoted to the working cowboys of the American west. Forbes, FYI, magazine hailed him as the new Remington of American painting.

Other areas of study are included in the Exhibition Catalogs; Hats & Headwear,(2008); Yellowstone,(2007); Italy,(2007); Canyon de Chelly,(2005); Scotland,(2003); A Wet Line: Fly-fishing on the Rivers of North American,(2002); Land of the Rajput,(2001); Buckaroos of the Great Basin,(2000); Fast Horses,(1999); Ireland,(1997); Heart Land,(1996); China,(1995); The Blue Nile,(1993); and Sketches of Spain,(1992).

William Matthews paintings are widely exhibited nationally and internationally. His work has been part of two Meridian International Center curated exhibitions, Out West: The Great American Landscape, 2007-2008, and True Colors: Meditation on the American Spirit, 200-2005, venues included; the National Art Museum of China; Shanghai Art Museum; Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Center; the Topkapi Palace, Instanbul; the Allied Museum, Berlin; National Gallery of the Arts, Albania; Millennium Court Arts Center, Northern Ireland.

His work is included in numerous private and public collections including, Museum of the West, Autry National Center; Buffalo Bill Historical Center; Eiteljorg Museum; The National Cowboy Hall of Fame; Gilcrease Museum; Joslyn Museum; Booth Western Art Museum; Phoenix Art Museum; Tuscon Museum of Art; and the Denver Art Museum.

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Artist's Website

William Matthews was born in New York in 1949 and moved with his family to San Francisco in the late fifties. He received art training on the West Coast and spent two years in Los Angeles designing album covers before going to Europe.

Between 1975 and 1980, Matthews traveled throughout Spain, North Africa, Egypt, and Great Britain. His travels culminated in four catalogued exhibitions: Heart Land: Watercolors of the Amish, Mennonite and Shaker Villages (1996), China (1995), The Blue Nile (1993), and Sketches of Spain (1992). Since 1980 he has lived in the mountains outside Denver, where he pursues painting full time.

Matthews credits the watercolorists of San Francisco and his mother as his earliest influences. He traces additional influences to other U.S. watercolorists, English painters, John Sell Cotman and Richard Bonington, and to Hercules B. Brabazon as well as a variety of traditional Chinese artists. Matthews' watercolors depict Western subject matter in a style which one might describe as a subtle philosophical study of Western ranch life. Forbes has hailed him as the new Remington of U.S. painting.

His work has been widely exhibited nationally and is included in numerous private collections including those of the Ritz Carlton, Aspen, Colorado; the Gilman Paper Company, New York; Texaco, New York; and Warner Western Records, Nashville, Tennessee. Matthews' paintings are part of the permanent collections of the Gene Autry Heritage Museum, Los Angeles; the Buffalo Bill Historical Center and Museum, Cody, Wyoming; the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City; and the Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis.

Source: Nedra Matteucci Galleries, representing William Matthews

A resident of Evergreen, Colorado, William Matthews is a realist painter of ranch landscapes and horses and figures in the landscape.

He was born in New York City and in the late 1950s moved with his family to San Francisco. He took art training on the west coast and was in Los Angeles for two years designing album covers. Then he traveled widely in Europe and in the 1970s had a warehouse studio on Wazee Street in the Lower Downtown area of Denver.

Between 1975 and 1980, he traveled throughout Spain, North Africa, Egypt and Great Britain, and China and from those travels got subject matter for paintings including a series of images of Chinese people.

His work is in the permanent collections at the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center.