Lakota Trusted Trail

Lakota Trusted Trail by R.S. Riddick

Oil on Linen

44" x 34"

56" x 46" framed

"Discovery and exploration, cultures experienced progress and encountered conflict. Pages of history reveal human character through struggles of survival, expansion and development, war and peace. The ancestral ways of Native Americans were a proven result, tested, established, dependable. During the short Rendezvous period in the 1800s, trappers, traders, and frontiersmen relied on the Indian guides to lead the way to remote destinations further West." - Ron

Born in California, R.S. Riddick now lives in Columbia Falls, MT and also spends time in Tucson, AZ. He studied at the Art Center College of Design in California and then with Russian master colorist Sergei Bongart. He became a member of the legendary Cowboy Artists of America in 1997 and is now an Emeritus member. Riddick has an extensive list of other national organization memberships including the Oil Painters of America, Prix de West, and the California Arts Club. His personal style and blend of realism and colorism through classical painting techniques finds fulfilment in the rich and diverse subject matter in the great American West.