Toyah Bill Taylor, Cowboy Impressionist Artist

Toyah Taylor, Cowboy Impressionist, "Cowboy Raised" in Pecos, Texas. From 1965 to 1978 he performed and competed on the professional rodeo circuit as a bronc rider, bull rider and bullfighter clown. While working toward his Masters Degree in Art and as a member of the Sul Ross State University Rodeo Team he developed a passion for action filled painting with explosive use of color early in his career. Today his “Action Horse and Rider Portraits” and Spiritual/Religious paintings are in private collections in the US, Canada, Europe, South America and Australia.

Toyah is also an entertainer performing as “Buffalo Chip”. He is a lecturer, story teller, comic, singer, and song writer. Toyah has incorporated humor and entertainment in his Art Workshops for decades.

View more of his Art at Pecos River Gallery. http://www.pecosrivergallery.com

Toyah competed in Pro Rodeo Cowboy Association from 1966 to 1978

         I air brushed the old black and white photo

A Bit of Family History:  TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1799-1836). William Taylor, Alamo defender, was born in Tennessee in 1799. He was one of at least three William Tailor's who served in the revolutionary army As a member of the Alamo garrison, he died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Daughters of the American Revolution, The Alamo Heroes and Their Revolutionary Ancestors (San Antonio, 1976). Bill Groneman, Alamo Defenders (Austin: Eakin, 1990).