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Ted Cowart
Cowart has spent his lifetime dancing with the call to be a painter. At times is was the center of his world, his livelihood, his sole provider. At other times, it was the hollow place in his daily life, the friend left behind, the talent set aside.
By the time he was eight, he had won innumerable prizes for his drawings and posters. It led to a scholarship to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston art classes. For the next ten years, his experience there surrounded him with the classics, especially the great artists of the 20th century. These styles and movements were a great influence on him.
He became one of the youngest students ever accepted into the Los Angeles Art Center College of Design. After graduating, he joined the military and expanded his artistic talents painting portraits of officers and their wives. After his military service, Ted decided to join Hockaday Associates in New York , quickly entering the rough and wild design world of New York City.
In spite of working with the top photographers , models and designers, Cowart started missing his own creative time. It was around 1974 and Neiman Marcus offered him a project in Dallas. He could not pass up the opportunity to return to his home town of Houston.
Then one day, he picked up a paint brush and started painting again. Prolifically. New styles emerged. Old styles were revised. He bought a second home in Palm Springs and there he had his first solo show. Dozens of shows, galleries and international collections later, Cowart has found his passion and lives it.
Many of his works are of subjects that have special meaning in his life or in his memories, though an admirer should not waste too much time trying to figure out that connection. It is simply the means by which the artist has drawn himself into his subject and released an array of emotions to which viewers are drawn.
