Collection: Donahue, Mikel

A multiple-award-winning member of the Cowboy Artists of America, artist Mikel Donahue is best known for his impeccable depictions of cowboy life. His drawings and paintings portray ranchers and their livestock during the day-to-day ritual of sun-up to sun-down work on the ranch. What may seem mundane chores are captured and translated through his artistic style into moments of meaning and reflection.

Donahue, who was born and raised in Tulsa, was taught about life on the ranch by his paternal grandfather

 and about Western art by his maternal grandfather, with memorable trips to Tulsa’s Gilcrease Museum and what was then the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. Fascinated both by life on the ranch and the iconic art by the likes of Charlie Russell and Frederic Remington, Donahue has become a perfect amalgam of his influences; he breeds racing quarter horses with his wife, Christie, on their place outside Broken Arrow and maintains an award-winning career in the arts.

Mikel is a graduate of the University of Tulsa and a thirty-three-year veteran and multiple-award-winning advertising designer. His work is held in Broadmoor Galleries, Colorado Springs; Santa Fe Trails Fine Art; and Settlers West Galleries, Tucson.