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Larry Pirnie

Larry Pirnie (Born 1940) is active/lives in Montana, Iowa.  Larry Pirnie is known for Cowboy genre-horses, wood relief.

Born in Waterloo, Iowa and growing up on a farm near Bettendorf, Iowa, Larry Pirnie became a sculptor and painter of abstract, highly colorful horses and cowboy figures.   His acrylic paintings are loose images in bright hues of western scenes and in size, quite often are large-scale horizontal or vertical, and give in-your-face impressions such as horses running across a room.

Pirnie says that illustrator Fred Harmon's comics, "Red Rider", have been his inspiration, and this interest has led him to collecting many Harmon-created comic books.  With his artwork, Pirnie has tried to bridge the gap between fantasy and reality, a goal formulated somewhat by seeing photographs of Harmon working on his ranch or creating cartoons at his drawing table.  In other words, he was a man grounded in reality creating action comics that stirred the imaginations of kids such as the young Pirney.

Pirnie also grew up working along side his father and   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3637 characters.]  Artist bio

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