Art

Pop western artist Billy Schenck on display at Museum of the West

Pop western Artist Billy Schenck saw a revival of his work from a show in Scottsdale.

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Pop western Artist Billy Schenck with a self-portrait from 1978 (when he had a mustache). The horse was named Lyle and the dog was Fritz.

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Pop western artist Billy Schenck with one of his favorite paintings. The picture depicts romance in the west, something few paintings portray.

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Billy Schenck will only grudgingly acknowledge he’s from a little town outside of Columbus, Ohio.

It was dirty, smelly and the people were ultra conservative, he said.

So instead he’s told people over the years he’s from all sorts of other places.

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