 Steve Devenyns began painting as a sideline when an automobile
accident laid him up and forced him to drop
out of pre-veterinary classes at Colorado
State University. Already an accomplished
musician and saddle maker, Devenyns never
returned to school, deciding instead to develop
his art. With valuable coaching from respected
Western artists, a good deal of determination
and years of hard work, Steve Devenyns has
become recognized as one of America's finest
Western artists.
Devenyns has been featured in a number of
major magazines, including Southwest Art,
Inform Art, U.S. Art, Equine Images and Art
of the West. In 1991 he received the Museum
Purchase Award at Cheyenne Frontier Days'
Governor's Invitational Art Show. Well known
for his oil painting, Devenyns also has special
talent as a pencil artist, capturing a quality
in his subjects that few others can.
An experienced and accomplished cowboy, Devenyns
has "lived" the Western life, riding
broncs, driving cattle, branding calves, packing
into the high country and entertaining with
his guitar and fiddle. His considerable artistic
talent and his experiences make him uniquely
qualified to paint the West and its traditional
way of life.
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