Duane Bryers is one of America's most gifted artists and has been for the better part of his ninety-four years on this planet. He earned a living as a commercial illustrator until his early fifties and gradually found himself garnering a nice amount of attention as a fine artists who specialized in western theme paintings. He was born in the upper peninsula of Michigan in 1911 on a farm with his three brothers and two sisters. At the age of twelve his family moved to a village in Northern Minnesota called Virginia (five miles north of Duluc according to Duane) where he lived until he left in 1939. There is a lot of bunkhouse and cowlot character in the paintings of Duane Bryers. The cowboys in Bryer's painting are not the Zane Grey variety; they're the hard-bitten, bow-legged kind that can be found in ranch country throughout the West. Bryers lives on a ranch near Tucson, Arizona. He has had plenty of opportunity to get next to what he paints. His work proves that he has paid close attention to his subjects. Duane Bryers passed away on May 30th, 2012 in Tucson, Arizona.
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