Tim Cox, CA
Tim Cox was born and raised in the farming and ranching community of Duncan, Arizona. In a 1975 high school English class essay, he wrote that one of his fondest wishes was to be a member of the Cowboy Artists of America. His wish was granted in 2007. He has served on that Board of Directors and is a past president.
In 2011, he was voted winner of the Readers Choice award for Best Living Western Painter in True West magazine. He also created the cover of the 75th Anniversary edition of Western Horseman. His awards include the 2003 Prix de West Purchase Award and Express Ranches Great American Cowboy Award in 2004 and 2007 from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. In 2001, he received the Will Rogers Western Artist Award for Artist of the Year from the Academy of Western Artists and the Olaf Wieghorst Best of Show Award from the Mountain Oyster Club three times. Cox was voted into U.S. Art Magazine’s Print Hall of Fame in 2000. In 2008, Decor Magazine listed him as one of the 14 “Most Enduring and Successful Poster Artists.”
In addition to the National Cowboy Museum, Tim’s work hangs in the permanent collections of the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, and the Old West Museum in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
He combines the basic ingredients of color, value, perspective and pleasing design with his desire to be a perfectionist in portraying the real working cowboy.
Source: Cowboy Artists of America
Reluctant Company
Artist: Tim Cox
Description: Oil (2009) | Dimensions: Image
Size: 16”h x 20”w; Framed Size: 29”h x 33”w
Emeritus Member of the Cowboy Artists of America, Tim Cox, paints the modern West from the perspective of working ranchers and cowboys and presents realistic scenes that reflect their daily business of working cattle and managing the land. Here he accurately captures a scene of four calves with a wary, but experienced horse looking over them. He has painted the scene with a bright palette that reflects mid-afternoon.
Tim’s paintings have appeared on over one hundred and ten magazine covers and his work has been featured in at least sixteen different publications. He was voted winner of the Readers' Choice Award for Best Living Western Painter in True West Magazine in its 2011 Best of the West poll. He also was asked to create the cover of the 75th Anniversary edition of Western Horseman Magazine.
Cox has received numerous awards for his masterworks which can be found in private collections as well as in many permanent museum collections. “Reluctant Company” made its debut at the Cowboy Artists of America Show & Sale in 2009.