Jason Rich grew up riding, training, and drawing horses on a small farm in southern Idaho. While completing his undergraduate and master’s degrees in art at Utah State University, he devoted himself to a career in painting. By the time Rich completed his education, he had established himself in the Western art market. His work has been featured in several magazines, including Art of the West, Cowboys & Indians, Southwest Art, and on the cover of Western Horseman.

Rich received the first annual “Spirit of the West Award” at the Autry Museum of the American West’s 2008 Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition and Sale. He was the 2002 National Cattlemen’s Beef Association poster artist and received the Ralph “Tuffy” Berg Award for Best New Artist at the C. M. Russell Auction in 1998. In the annual Arts for the Parks competition, he won the Grand Prize in 1997 and the Founders Favorite Award in 1998.

Through his dedication and the quality of his work, Rich has developed a large following and has become recognized as a major contemporary Western artist. He currently lives in northern Utah with his wife and three children.

Source: Stewart, Rick. The American West: Legendary Artists of the Frontier. Nashville: Hawthorne Publishing Company, 1986.