"Robert Summers paints the West that was and always will be. For ours is a land that has always looked to the West for its dreams, finding there many of the values and the character for which America has become known throughout the world.
For Robert Summers, the meaning and rich legacy of the West is more than cowboys and Indians or boots and Stetsons. The cowboy was-and is-heroic not simply for his fast gun, but for his individualism, independence and tenacious will to have his reins held by no one but himself.
Born in 1940 in Glen Rose, Texas, near Fort Worth, Robert Summers has known modern day cowboys from an early age. And, even now, he has not lost his boyhood fascination with the West. Glen Rose remains his home, and the humble, neighborly small town character of the Texas community and its people seems to flavor his paintings."
