Gail Rowe

Gail Rowe, a retired professor of history and the author of seven books---both fiction and non-fiction---is a self-taught artist of western landscapes in oil. A westerner by birth, habit, and outlook, he is particularly fascinated by the shifting colors and light patterns of the Rocky Mountain and High Plain regions. Although he has sold his art work for the past twenty years, only since his retirement from the University of Northern Colorado's History Department in 2002 has he exhibited his work on a systematic, public basis. He brings to his art the same professionalism, passion, and focus that he exhibited in winning UNC's highest awards for both scholarship and teaching during his tenure there. Rowe strives to capture beauty even in the harshest of hard-scrabble vistas. His primary objective is always to make the landscape live by capturing the atmosphere and energy of the location. But he also seeks to reveal in each painting the allurement that drew him to the scene, and to engage viewers by creating a sense of place or a moment in time. In June and July, 2008, he was part of a two-person show at Greeley's Tointon Gallery. In December, 2008, he held a one-man show at the Family of Christ Presbyterian Church.