“My destiny is to be a painter,” declares Jack Sorenson. And the Cowboy Artists of America member has a lifetime of success to prove his point.
Sorenson’s Western art story indeed has a very providential flavor. After all, how many kids grow up riding horses, driving stagecoaches, and reenacting gunfights on the edge of legendary Palo Duro Canyon? And how many children recruit the family dog to model for a painting—at the age of 3?
Old West inspiration came early for Sorenson, at Six Gun City, a cowboy theme park with riding stables housed in a Western town producer John Mantley once visited, and impressed, asked Sorenson, “Who built your town?” The then-16-year-old replied, “I did.”
