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"New Boots for Christmas"

Looks like someone is getting a new pair of boots for Christmas. I believe it's a lady, those look pretty feminine. This painting was...

"The Homecoming"

This painting like most of mine has a back-story. This father informed his daughter that he had to be away from home for the week of...

"Silent Night, Holy Night"

Most of my Christmas paintings have to do with my Cowboy Santa or Christmas shoppers and such. In this painting, a lone cowboy has...

"Santa's Big Ride"

This has been one of my most popular Christmas cards for many years. I invented the Cowboy Santa in the mid-eighties, and I'd never seen...

"The Christmas Star"

This cowboy has just shared with his daughter the story of the Christmas Star so she wanted to ride out on Christmas Eve to see if she...

"A Cowboy Christmas"

This painting was the number one selling Christmas Card for Leanin' Tree the year it came out. It was also on the cover of Western...

"Cathedral Bells"

I have painted several country churches in winter, but this is the first Spanish Mission I've painted with snow on the ground. If you...

"Saint Nick's Express"

Here is yet another way a Cowboy Santa might deliver his presents. Having been an old stagecoach driver myself, I'm partial to this...

"A Tumbleweed Christmas"

What do you do when it's almost Christmas and you're in a bunk house in the middle of the prairie and there are no trees for miles? You...

"Christmas At The Mercantile"

I love to try to capture the hustle and bustle of Christmas shoppers in my paintings. For folks that lived in the country, the local...