A Fathers saddle becomes a statement work in this collection. The Texas Saddle Maker was the legendary H. H. Schweitzer out of Matador, Texas.

A saddle owned by the famous western showman, Buffalo Bill Cody. The saddle is in the collection of the Woolaroc Museum & Wildlife Reserve, 12 miles outside of Bartlesville, Oklahoma

A family heirloom becomes a life-sized replication in every detail

A saddle owned by the excentric Jacquin Archer Stewart and build for her by the Mueller Saddle works out of Denver Colorado. She had it made in the case she went to the Stewarts Colorado Ranch she would have her own saddle. It was never riden.

The opposite side of the "Round-Up" saddle. The collector wanted the same saddle drawing that a friend of his had purchased. Instead of replicating the same drawing, I did the opposite side, which depicts a cowboy being bucked off of a wide stallion

Paper-Boy is believed to depict one of four elaborate parade saddles commissioned from celebrated Hollywood saddlemaker Edward H. Bohlin by Fort Worth publisher Amon G. Carter for officials of the 1947 Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show. Contemporary records identify the four officials riding together as Fort Worth Mayor F. Edgar Deen, Stock Show vice president Ernest Allen, Stock Show president W. R. Watt, and director Sid W. Richardson. Carter instructed Bohlin to place each rider’s initials on the saddle’s silver-mounted tapaderas. The prominent letter “A” on the saddle depicted in Paper-Boy therefore suggests that it may have been made for Ernest Allen, although that ownership has not yet been conclusively documented.

This show saddle was created for the legendary M.L. Leddy of San Angelo and Fort Worth fame. Four saddles made and given to the Leddy brothers and this one was used by M.L. Leddy for special events and parades. The Leddy company has made saddles and boots for western dignitaries and cowboys for over a century. The tooling is exquisitely preserved in this saddle that will be 100 years old in 2020.

This show saddle designed and crafted for the 1942 Rose Bowl Parade. Drawn in a 1-1 scale . This drawing won the 2013 Hunting Art Prize

Three distressed weather beaten saddles hang like sides of beef at a slaughterhouse.

Once the original drawing is complete I have the drawing high resolution scanned and printed and then I hand apply coloration with transparent watercolor dyes and opaque gouache to create a unique one-of-a-kind limited edition print. Each is different and the hand coloration process allows me to change the saddle color to whatever I choose. In this case, the original saddle is black dyed leather but in the colorized version I can make it a warm saddle tan.