Dan Mieduch (Arizona / Michigan, b. 1947), "Youth & Experience", oil on canvas

sight: 24 x 36 in., frame: 35 x 47 in.

Provenance: Property from the lifelong collection of a prominent artist in San Antonio, Texas

A representational oil painter of cowboys, both historic and contemporary, Dan Mieduch was born in Detroit, Michigan, and was drawing by the age of seven. During high school, he took art classes at night and began working in both oils and watercolors. His father had a bar, and young Mieduch sold his wildlife paintings to patrons for forty dollars each. He earned a B.S. Degree from the University of Michigan in industrial design in 1969 and then served in the Army Medical Corps for eighteen months as a command artist in the Canal Zone. Mieduch transitioned to a commercial illustration studio in Detroit, and then determining to be a fine artist, focused on what he perceived as a simpler time--the early 20th century American frontier. He moved to Phoenix, Arizona where he has had gallery representation and a successful career.