Horses and Men, oil, 36˝ by 40˝
“This painting was done in southwestern Wyo- ming. The cowboys are bringing in the remuda from the High Uinta Mountains to the home ranch.”
“I was working for a food broker- age firm and would head home and paint,” he says. “I also would get up at 5 a.m. and paint before going to work.” Norton came to realize that, if he
were ever going to have a shot at becoming a professional artist, he would have to devote more time to his painting. What did he do? He quit his job, went home, asked Pam to go for a walk with him, and con- fessed what he had done. “She said, ‘You need to get this out of your sys- tem; I’ll give you five years,’” Norton recalls. At the time the couple had one
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Photo By Dan Lund
