Collection: Rodriguez, Alfredo

For Alfredo Rodriguez, painting was as much a part of his childhood development as learning to walk and speak. Some of his earliest memories are of illustrating classroom assignments and painting portraits of family members with one of his earliest gifts, a set of watercolors he received from his mother when he was six. Born and raised in Mexico in a family of nine children, Alfredo used his talent to supplement his family’s income needs.

Rodriguez now lives in California and has won top awards from several prestigious organizations. His work has been exhibited at numerous noteworthy invitational art shows around the country, including Masters of the American West at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles. Rodriguez is an annual exhibitor at the Briscoe Western Art Museum in San Antonio and Settlers West Gallery in Tucson, and the Favel Museum of Western Art in Klamath Falls, Oregon, which honored Rodriguez with the 1991 Artist of the Year award, has his work on permanent display.

A professional artist since 1968, when he sold his first original painting, Rodriguez
is internationally recognized for his outstanding paintings of the American West. His rich and vivid images of mountains, deserts, and Indian villages are admired wherever they are displayed, but it is his portrayal of the inhabitants of the land that provides the focal point of his work. As he paints, he captures the dignity of the human spirit elevated by the majestic beauty of their surroundings.