Martin Grelle

Jackson Hole Art Auction, 20 September 2008, lot 129

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Contemporary Western painter Martin Grelle was born in Clifton, Texas in 1954. Maintaining a studio in the Meridian Creek Valley in Bosque County, Texas, Grelle’s work focuses on brightly colored depictions of the American west. Largely a self-taught artist, Grelle had his first one-man show within a year of graduating high school in 1973. In 1995, Grelle was voted by his contemporaries into the Cowboy Artists of America and continues to enjoy a decorated career in Western art.

Executed in 2008, Martin Grelle’s Camp Meat and Mules is a testament to the detail and precision that made the artist such a renowned force in Western art.