Charles Robert “Bob” Wygant Jr.

Charles Robert “Bob” Wygant, Jr.
American  (b. 1927)

Bob Wygant, a Texas painter, creates traditional and romantic, panoramic western landscapes, often with diminished figures of cowboys on horses in river valleys against mountain backdrops.  He also does an occasional still life as well as wildlife subjects.

His primary medium is acrylic, and the tone of his paintings is quietude.  Of his work, he has said:  "I am interested in establishing a mood in my paintings and not a meaning.  It is the viewer who brings the meaning to the work."
 
For 16 years beginning in 1960, he taught at the University of Houston becoming an assistant professor, and he also worked with the Houston Livestock Show as a judge of art submissions and scholarship applications.  By 1976, he had so many commissions that he gave up teaching.  Included were illustrations for True West, Saturday Evening Post and Fortune magazines.  In 1981, he received Best of Show at the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame.