David Kammerzell Archives - Coors Western Art

In Greek, the word Nostalgia literally means “the pain from an old wound”.

My work does have that bittersweet nostalgic feeling. That sense of nostalgia comes from my love and admiration of bygone commercial art and illustrations from the early 1900’s through the 1950’s. In that world commercial artists worked inventively and tirelessly to get your attention. They enhanced, exaggerated, simplified and whatever else they could to produce a compelling, dramatic image. By taking a page from that playbook I work with historic, vintage photos of cowboys and cowgirls and then put them through the same process of the commercial artist to glorify and glamorize the images. I want to Hollywoodize American cowboys. It’s not a literal representation of the West I seek but rather an idealized vision, a state of mind – a memory of a distant dream.

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David Kammerzell

Westward, Ever Westward

Pretty In Pink

Not His First Rodeo

Days Like This

Flapper Cowgirl

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