California Western Gallery: Specializing in Western, Sporting, Wildlife, and American Art

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Nicholas Firfires

N.S. Firfires "Nick" was born in Santa Barbara, California.

It is said that Firfires makes an immediate and lasting impression of authenticity in his western genre paintings, and this authenticity comes from his childhood when he began riding, breaking and training horses at the age of ten.

Firfires was a member of the Rancheros Visitadores riding group that also included Ed Borein and Joe DeYong, both well-known Vaquero artists of the past.

Firfires was also a member of the Cowboy Artists of America. He had sold out one-man shows in the Biltmore gallery in Los Angeles, California.

In his paintings, authenticity goes far beyond correctness of costume and saddle, even beyond cowboy types, horses and cattle breeds and their anatomies. Firfires had a knowledge which can not be faked, which gives his paintings their striking reality. He needs no arty frills; what he paints is in his blood, the blood of a Vaquero.