Summer Hours
June 26 @ 7:00 pm - September 12 @ 7:00 pm
MIKEL DONAHUE
Born 1959 in Tulsa, Oklahoma; lives in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Most abandoned barns and sheds you see along the highway or on a country road will often be home to a myriad of critters. Here, shelter can be close to a food source, by a bridge over a creek, or out in an open meadow, barn swallows find a welcoming structure as a dry and comfortable place to set up home. It’s Move-in Ready.
A MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING MEMBER of the Cowboy Artists of America, artist Mikel Donahue is best known for his impeccable depictions of cowboy life. His drawings and paintings portray ranchers and their livestock during the day-to-day ritual of sun-up to sun-down work on the ranch. What may seem like mundane chores are captured and translated through his artistic style into moments of meaning and reflection.
Donahue, who was born and raised in Tulsa, was taught about life on the ranch by his paternal grandfather, who raised cattle in northcentral Oklahoma. It was Donahue’s maternal grandfather who exposed him to Western art at an early age with memorable trips to Tulsa’s Gilcrease Museum and what was then the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. Fascinated both by life on the ranch and the iconic art by the likes of Charlie Russell and Frederic Remington, as an adult, Donahue has become a perfect amalgam of his influences with a life breeding racing quarter horses with his wife Christie on their place outside Broken Arrow and an award-winning career in the arts.
Galleries
Broadmoor Galleries, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Insight Gallery, Fredericksburg, Texas
Santa Fe Trails Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Settlers West Galleries, Tucson, Arizona