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Rush Cole in the studio, May 25, 2022.


RUSH COLE FINE ART

CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, (Prototype, 24"x 60"
acrylic on canvas, Copyright Rush Cole 1982)

"CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: An Historical Montage"
96" height x 240" width, (8 feet x 20 feet) Acrylic on canvas. 
Copyright Rush Cole 1983. All rights reserved.
City Of Corpus Christi, Texas, 
PUBLIC ART COLLECTION
American Bank Center, Corpus Christi, Texas
"INDIANAPOLIS, A Portrait"
48" x 72", Oil on canvas
Copyright Rush Cole 1992. All rights reserved.
"Rush Cole's VIVA SANTA FE!"
48" x 72", Oil on canvas, Gallery-wrapped.
Copyright Rush Cole 2009. All rights reserved.
“AMERICAN RODEO: 
It Always Begins With A Prayer” 
Copyright Rush Cole
Official poster art~65th Annual PRCA
Rodeo de Santa Fe 2014
"GOOD RIDE!"
Copyright Rush Cole
Official poster art~66th Annual PRCA
​Rodeo de Santa Fe 2015

Below:
Cole's meticulously researched, detailed, and painted portrait of the city her heart 
chose as home. Requiring more than a full year of easel work, the image is a visual history of 
Santa Fe, New Mexico's more than 400 years as America's oldest capital city.


In 2012, Cole was cast as a Red Pony Regular background actor, appearing in all six seasons of the hit Netflix TV LONGMIRE Mystery Series, filmed in northern New Mexico.

Two of Cole's classic rodeo paintings were selected as the official poster for Rodeo de Santa Fe!
Adam Bartley, Rush Cole, Robert Taylor, off duty and having fun at Rodeo De Santa Fe, June, 2014.
ALL images and text on this website are the sole property of Rush Cole.  
About The Artist…

As a very young child, Rush Cole set out to become a professional fine artist, even though she was given absolutely no support for doing so.  Still, she persisted, drawing and painting incessantly.  She was only twelve when she first sold her artwork: by the end of eighth grade, she was named "Most Promising Art Student" out of hundreds of fellow students!  By the time she entered high school, her art teachers and the school principal had begun purchasing her art, while her classmates started commissioning her to create portraits of their boyfriends and girlfriends.  Her friends' parents also bought her drawings and paintings.  

In 1982, Rush Cole won a statewide competition in Texas to paint a definitive mural for the City of Corpus Christi, depicting the history, culture, and/or environment of the community.  Following intense research and travel around the area, sketching and photographing, Rush chose to combine all three categories by composing a visual montage that reads from left to right: earliest history to the present day: covering more than five hundred years.  The completed mural measures 8 feet high by 20 feet wide and is on permanent exhibit as part of the city's public art collection.  Thus began her penchant for composing historical portraits of entire cities!

To date, Cole has spent decades working as a fine artist. By simply setting her hand to the joyous task of using her creative abilities, she ended up providing herself a classical art education; reading and researching the great artists from the past, and then honing her hard-fought-for drawing and painting skills. Evidently, she did an okay job, too; since she was duly invited to teach accredited courses in drawing and watercolor painting for the University of Alaska! 

Throughout her career, Rush has won numerous awards in juried national and international art competitions; including Best Of Show in the National Watercolor Society, one of the highest, most prestigious awards available to watercolor artists in America.  Additionally, her artwork is part of many private, corporate, and museum collections in the United States and abroad.  Cole is also an accomplished portrait artist; commissioned to paint many, many humans and animals for both private and corporate patrons.

After recently widening the scope of her creativity to include the literary arts, Rush Cole has also been applauded for her writing.  As an indie author and publisher, both her first memoir, "DREAM OF THE BUTTERFLY", followed by a volume of artwork, "ART OF THE JOURNEY", an illustrated retrospective collection spanning twenty-one years, have been enthusiastically received and lauded by readers and art lovers alike.  

Cole's first work of fiction, "THE BOMBSHELL RIDES AGAIN", a mystery novel, is due out in summer, 2022. 
At the easel, May 2022.
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More than 40 years as an award-winning fine artist!
*Purchase of original art entitles buyer to only the possession of the physical work. Artist retains and reserves all legal copyrights, as described and protected under U.S. Copyright law. Owners of original artwork do not have the right to reproduce the artwork for any reason whatsoever.