Stephen Broderick
Stephen J. Broderick is a representational artist of the American West. His landscape oil paintings depict the wilderness and range sections of the western states, primarily Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. Broderick has painted with other plein-air artists of the Rocky Mountain region, including Clyde Aspevig, Bob Barlow and Scott Christensen. His art is intended to present and preserve for the viewer the beauty and richness of the land, and to express his own appreciation for it as well. Broderick himself has spent time as a sheep and cattle herder, travelling and working throughout the remote regions of the West. Born in Scottsbluff, Nebraska in 1950, he is a native to the back-country, growing up in a family of sheep- stockmen. While an undergraduate at Western State College, Gunnison, Colorado and the University of Colorado, Denver, Broderick majored in art, 1972-5. He studied oil painting with Mark Daily and Michael Lynch at the Scottsdale Artist School in Arizona 1986-7. His use of oils reflects an earlier training in printmaking at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the San Francisco Art Institute, 1978. Broderick’s style further developed while living in Taos, in part through his association with the realist photographer Denham Clements, 1980-81.
