Gordon Fowler
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![Woke up this Morning With the Blues](/art/ku1syxrmdhj0.jpg)
Woke up this Morning With the Blues, 2024
oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches, $4000
![Padre Island](/art/2i4wyqrmlgsw.jpg)
Padre Island, 2024
oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches, $2800
![Fall Creek](/art/tgbwy3qyaznb.jpg)
Fall Creek, 2024
watercolor, 15 x 11 inches, $1200
![Off the Bayou](/art/dftmy4qyayiw.jpg)
Off the Bayou, 2024
watercolor, 16 x 20 inches, $2000
![Mixed Roses in Mexican Jar](/art/ot7smryqy59bb.jpg)
Mixed Roses in Mexican Jar, 2024
oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches, sold
![Mesquite Tree with Bluebonnets](/art/eoksy1qy55e2.jpg)
Mesquite Tree with Bluebonnets, 2024
oil on canvas, 12 x 16 inches, $1800
![Early Blues](/art/ot4cxbyqyolkg.jpg)
Early Blues, 2024
oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches, $2000
![Guadalupe Fall](/art/mt4bjvyqyoeth.jpg)
Guadalupe Fall, 2024
watercolor, 18 x 24 inches, $2200
![Big Woods](/art/qod8yyqynqoc.jpg)
Big Woods, 2024
watercolor, 18 x 24 inches, $2200
![Roses and Pear](/art/qt3t0xyqynb17.jpg)
Roses and Pear, 2024
oil on canvas, 6 x 12 inches, $1800
![Late November](/art/arrjylwqnhl7.jpg)
Late November, 2023
oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches, $7000
![Red and White Roses](/art/9x1hycdy2xjf.jpg)
Red and White Roses, 2023
oil on canvas, 12 x 16 inches, $2000
![Annandale Oaks](/art/atsvyyyz1sgog.jpg)
Annandale Oaks, 2022
oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches, sold
![Honey Creek](/art/ddwqyzhe19a9.jpg)
Honey Creek, 2022
oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches, sold
![Pedernales Fall](/art/wmji47cp49le.jpg)
Pedernales Fall, 2022
oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches, $3400
![Old Paint](/art/ot0xzy4cp4gyn.jpg)
Old Paint, 2022
oil on canvas, 12 x 16 inches, $1800
![Brush Country](/art/etet3i4cpjv8a.jpg)
Brush Country, 2022
oil on canvas, 12 x 16 inches, sold
![Vintage Texas Barn](/art/vtjdou4cpjjie.jpg)
Vintage Texas Barn, 2022
oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches, $2500
![Bull Creek Bottom](/art/4vkc4mcp3bnf.jpg)
Bull Creek Bottom, 2022
oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches, $4800
![Brush Country Study](/art/ughn49cp3dmx.jpg)
Brush Country Study, 2022
oil on canvas, 10 x 12 inches, $1275
![Guadalupe Bluffs](/art/qt02ank3eyl8u.jpg)
Guadalupe Bluffs, 2018
watercolor on paper, 22 x 30 inches, $2800
![Blanco Riverbed](/art/it3jk83eyvsr.jpg)
Blanco Riverbed, 2018
watercolor on paper, 22 x 30 inches, $2800
![Pomegranate](/art/rhdykp3dbrnm.jpg)
Pomegranate, 2018
watercolor on paper, 10 x 14 inches, $1000
![Creek's Edge](/art/4ttbjsk3db9ac.jpg)
Creek's Edge, 2018
watercolor on paper, 22 x 30 inches, $2800
![Guadalupe Bluffs](/art/83ekjcw9aick.jpg)
Guadalupe Bluffs, 2017
oil on canvas panel, 36 x 48 inches, $6500
![Spring Oak](/art/o9ouj4vaqx49.jpg)
Spring Oak, 2017
oil on canvas panel, 18 x 24 inches, $3400
![Along the Frio](/art/ktz8j9vaqxe1.jpg)
Along the Frio, 2017
oil on canvas panel, 14 x 18 inches, $2000
![Taos Barn](/art/48yqjlwoae4e.jpg)
Taos Barn, 2017
oil on canvas panel, 12 x 10 inches, $1200
![Spring Runoff](/art/ba92j4vaqadm.jpg)
Spring Runoff, 2017
oil on canvas panel, 14 x 18 inches, $2000
![Taos Barns](/art/3kysj5vaqqci.jpg)
Taos Barns, 2017
oil on canvas panel, 12 x 16 inches, $1800
![Cliffside](/art/ytgti8jvarbse.jpg)
Cliffside, 2017
oil on canvas panel, 12 x 16 inches, $1800
![White Rock](/art/8tul793yxmbo5.jpg)
White Rock, 2014
oil on linen panel, 16 x 12 inches, $1800
![Old Timers](/art/vtl8svi7pvz22.jpg)
Old Timers, 2012
oil on canvas panel, 12 x 16 inches unframed, $1400
![Tall Cypress](/art/ptigom3yxmzxn.jpg)
Tall Cypress, 2014
oil on linen panel, 12 x 10 inches, $1200
About the artist...
![Gordon Fowler](/images/D8BCE6841dc3a190E5Tu68E98ECA.jpg)
View Gordon's 2022 Artist Talk and Tour.
Take a virtual tour of Fowler's 2017 show at Wally Workman Gallery here.
Take a virtual tour of Fowler's 2015 show at Wally Workman Gallery here.
"Painting the Texas landscape for more than 50 years has instilled a sense of duty in me to record the beauty of our incredible state. We are losing a great deal of our scenic state to development. It’s harder to find undisturbed vistas to paint every year. Thanks to some patron ranchers, I’m able to get off the highway and paint mostly unchanged scenes. I painted a whole show on the Annandale Ranch, with 6 miles of Frio River running through it. Many smaller spreads have given me access through the years. I try to be honest about my subjects and paint them as I see and feel about them. I’m proud to be one of Texas Parks and Wildlife”s Centennial artists. I was assigned Bastrop State Park and Honey Creek Park to paint for the 100th anniversary show in 2023. I had a chance to change the Bastrop assignment due to the fire damage but chose to paint it. It deserves a place in the show. My piece is titled Coming Back.
Texas is hardscrabble in many areas, rough and scraggly, challenging to paint, but that makes for good, abstract design. Like in Guy Clark’s song, Desperados, I’m pushing eighty, but I plan to paint and teach until the cows come home."
Fowler is a native Texan, a man of many talents and numerous accomplishments, who has led a colorful and impassioned life. He is a former high school quarterback and a lapsed rock and roll musician. As a marine combat correspondent in Vietnam in 1967-68, he won two Purple Hearts and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. (The character named Cowboy in Stanley Kubrick's movie "Full Metal Jacket" is based on Fowler.) He built his father's small business, Wick Fowler's Two-Alarm Chili, into a prominent national company. He opened La Zona Rosa, a popular Austin restaurant and night-club made semi-famous in 1995 by the hit country song "Amy's Back In Austin." Fowler is a devoted plein air painter, creating fresh, natural canvasses entirely on location. He has taught watercolor at The University of Texas as well as at The Contemporary Austin. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums from Santa Fe to Kennebunkport and throughout Texas, and he has received awards for both his watercolors and his oils.