Bringing in the Herd

about Bringing in the Herd

Bounding toward the viewer, the herd of horses led by the three cowboys kick up a cloud of dust behind them as they run across the dirt-covered field.

As a native of the American Southwest, Gwendolyn Branstetter's works feature realistic and even mundane scenes of daily life for cowboys and ranchers in the region, although the artist carefully transforms the otherwise ordinary scenes into captivating compositions of a world gone by for many Americans.