Collection: Clyde D. Lewis

APRIL 2025 FEATURED ARTIST
OPENS FIRST FIRDAY APRIL 4th

  Raised in south Texas, Clyde's grandfather was a farmer, and his great uncle was a working cowboy on the Walker Ranch, so naturally Clyde's interest in cowboys budded at a young age.    His first-hand knowledge of the western lifestyle comes from personal experiences; from competing in rodeos as a youth in team roping, steer wrestling, and bull riding, to working on a 3,000 acre ranch.  Lewis also volunteers at the annual San Antonio and Houston Livestock Shows and Rodeos.
  Clyde first learned drawing skills from his cousin, who is a retired peace officer and artist for the San Antonio Police Department.  While working in the medical industry he also began building his art career as a black western artist focused on subjects that are close to his own cowboy lifestyle and Native American heritage.  His grandfather was an African American Choctaw Indian, so as a way to help preserve the Native American history in his family he spends much time researching and exhibits artworks depicting historical Native American scenes, as well as Buffalo Soldiers and black cowboys.  
  Mr Lewis is a co-founding member of the Western Artist Roundup Association along with Jack Moss of Llano TX.  Residing in San Antonio, his artwork has sold to collectors across the USA and a couple foreign countries.
  

• March 2025 Harlem Fine Art Show, mid-Manhattan, New York
• 2023-25 Eye of the Beholder Art Gallery, San Antonio
• 2018 San Antonio Artists Collective
• 2017-18 The Party, Museum of Western Art, Kerrville TX
• 2017-18 Cowboy True, Wichita Falls, TX. (2nd Graphite Pencil award, 2017)
• 2016 Art on the Paluxy, Glen Rose TX
• 2016 Trappings on the River, Llano TX
• 2014  International Academy of Music and Arts Show, San Antonio TX
• New Braunfels Art League Show, New Braunfels TX
• A Night Out on Government Hill, San Antonio TX
• Book Illustrations: Buffalo Soldiers & Nate Grisham: Renegade Trapper Book 2, by Gary L. Benton (covers), and The Painting Speaks by Pamela C. Rice.
• Helped sponsor the Black Cowboy Association, and Men of Color Association of TX.