About the artist:

"If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right", so says Artist Douglas Weaver. Through an extensive career in art that includes commercial illustration for publications and advertising in California to Fine Art that hangs in museums, galleries and private collections throughout the nation, Weaver has found the ways to make every painting an adventure...a treasure hunt for authenticity through extensive research...experiments that add dimension and intense realism to his representational paintings...a curiosity for life and the varied cultures that populate this planet. Known nationally as a painter who portrays the Old West and the Original People who lived on the Plains, he has brought the myths and stories to life on canvas, giving a new highlight to its history. In 1998 commissioned by the State of New Mexico, Weaver created a massive wall mural in oil for the Don Juan de Onate Center, the Headquarters of the New Mexico National Guard in Santa Fe, in celebration of the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the entrada into this territory of the first European colonists. Weaver's artwork is owned by such prominent citizens and entities as the State of New Mexico, the Heritage of the Americas Museum in San Diego County, Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Former Governor of California Pete Wilson and Former U.S. Congressman Lionel Van Deerlin of California. Click here for a list of exhibitions, galleries and publications. Now his interest in cultures worldwide have led to paintings of African natives...a Spanish flamenco dancer...a French bedroom...and promises of fascinating paintings to come. Galleries The Adobe Gallery - Ruidoso, New Mexico Gallery of the Southwest - San Antonio, Texas Cosmopolitan Fine Arts Gallery - La Jolla, California Alpine Frontier Gallery - Alpine, California Thackeray Art Gallery - San Diego, California Chriswood Art Gallery - Temecula, California Hanging Tree Art Gallery - Midland, Texas Anasazi Art Gallery - Flagstaff, Arizona Americana Art Gallery - Sedona, Arizona Shows & Exhibitions Southwest Classic Invitational Art Show - Kerrville, Texas Southwest Art Festival - Albuquerque, New Mexico Ruidoso Art Festival - New Mexico Carlsbad Museum & Fine Arts Center - New Mexico New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum - Las Cruces Stamford Art Foundation Annual Art Show - Texas Alamo Kiwanis Annual Invitational Western Art Show - San Antonio, Texas Coors Corporate Headquarters - Golden, Colorado American Bison Association - Denver, Colorado Annual Rendezvous/Western Art Show - Alpine, California Thackeray's Western Art Collectors Show - San Diego, California Hanging Tree Annual Round-Up Benefit - Midland, Texas Works in Public & Private Collections The State of New Mexico Rio Grande Historical Collections/New Mexico State University New Mexico National Guard Headquarters - Santa Fe New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum - Las Cruces Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan The Honorable Lionel Van Deerlin, California - House of Representatives The Honorable Pete Wilson, Governor of California American Buffalo Association - Denver, Colorado SAMCO Corporation - Imperial Valley, California Heritage of the Americas Museum - San Diego, California Dixieline Lumber Corporation - San Diego, California Publications Featuring Weaver's Art "Southern New Mexico Magazine" "Talk of the Town" "Bison World" "American Buffalo Journal" "San Diego Executive" "Artists of Southern California", Vols. I, II