Four Horse Stockyards – Kenneth Wyatt, American, 1976

Description

In this gritty 1976 watercolor by legendary Texas artist Kenneth Wyatt, four cowboys ride herd through a sea of cattle under a pale prairie sky. The concrete pens stretch into the horizon, and the dust is practically rising off the page. With bold western realism and unflinching detail, Wyatt captures the backbone of the beef industry—the men and the animals who built it.

You can practically smell the stockyard. But in a good way.