Artist in Residence.....

Ran Horn

The Ran Horn Story. Driving throuh Van Horn, Texas, the I-10 Business Street, Broadway, one store front really stand out among some non-descript feed and hardware and ranch supplies enterprises. A banner proclaiming VAN GOGH: resplendant with colors and marks like the iconic surfaces of the Netherland master himself.

The grand obsession of an amazing man, Ran Horn, who left the ministry himself and took up painting, usuing the Dutch giant himself as his teacher. So amazing. The store is crammed inside and out with artifacts and books and paintings and reproduction and prints on every wall and every vertical space available... and a veritable maze of book shelves. The famous works are there, some supended from the ceiling, and the painted subjects, some times assemble in the same frame, La Mousme, the Zouave, Postman Roulin, his son Amond, the dealer Pere Tanguy, Madame Ginoux, the night cafe with some tables added and others drinking, ... some contemporary!

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When Tommy Lee Jones brought his film crew to Van Horn to shoot some of his Border epic, "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada", several cast and and crew came to see Ran. Dwight Yoakam bought three or four works, Ran told us. He has his purchases with their purchasers recorded on a big list hanging in the gallery...

Ran

If ever driving west along I-10 as it goes through the wedge pressed down by New Mexico and up, across the Rio Bravo del Norte, by Mexico..... Well, do not miss Ran on Broadway in Van Horn.... Texas, that is. Oil wells and shooting stars!!!!!