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Jack Sorenson

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Jack Sorenson

Growing up, Jack Sorenson trained and broke horses on his father's Texas ranch. But he always knew that wasn't what he wanted to do. He's drawn longer than he can remember. The first paintings he sold were what he calls horse portraits. He started out asking some cowboys his dad knew if he could paint their horses for his art, prints and posters. He became good enough that he was offered a scholarship to a four-year university, but decided it wasn't teaching the kind of art he wanted to learn. So he forfeited his scholarship and made a list -- a list of all the artists that he liked and starting calling them one by one.

A dominant influence and mentor was Dord Fitz, the former head of the art department at the University of Kentucky. Jack Sorenson continued breaking horses after he got married in 1975, but soon he was painting full-time. The deal with his wife was simple: if he couldn't make it as an artist within a year, he'd get a real job. Sorenson was giving paintings to his father-in-law to pay off debts. His father-in-law was taking the paintings to a local art gallery to be framed. That's where fate stepped in. "As luck would have it, they had just had a falling out with their top Western artist. So they picked me up," Sorenson says about his success with art, prints and posters.

Eight months and 23 paintings later, Jack Sorenson had his first show. It was a sellout. With characteristic modesty, Sorenson credits some of his success to the record wheat harvest that year. Since then, Sorenson has completed a painting per week, and he sells a painting a week. Altogether, his successful art, prints and posters have enabled Sorenson and his wife Jeanne to raise five kids with Jeanne staying at home.

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