Ann Daugherty
"I
undertook
this project because
the character of these
women is right there
on the surface, more so
than somebody who's
got layers and layers of
urban culture. Their
honesty was so genuine.
Nothing to chip away.
Just right there ready
for me to express on
paper or canvas or
whatever."
So writes artist
Lynda Lanker in
the monograph of
her work, Tough by
Nature: Portraits of
Cowgirls and Ranch
Women of the
American West. This
remarkable volume,
published by the
Jordan Schnitzer
Museum of Art,
records Lanker's
nineteen year project
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