Roger Winter Art: These Are a Few of My Favorite Things

Roger Winter was my drawing and painting instructor at SMU from 1975-1978 during my BFA. Then he was on my MFA committee from 1979-1981. He has worked in many different styles with variegated approaches and mediums, but this mini-retrospective gallery represents my favorite things of his.

Roger Winter, pencil drawing

Roger Winter, photomontage

Roger Winter, oil painting

Roger Winter, oil painting

Roger Winter, oil painting

Roger Winter, oil painting

Roger Winter, oil painting

Roger Winter, oil painting

Roger Winter, oil painting

Roger Winter, oil painting

Roger Winter, oil painting

Roger Winter, oil painting

Roger Winter is celebrated as among the top contemporary Texas painters alive today. Over a 40-year period, he has produced a large body of superb work that has established him as a master of the oil painting medium. Winter’s earliest works from the 1960s and 1970s are largely autobiographical paintings, pulled from a mental catalog of images of his family and childhood. Winter’s sometime use of Surrealist juxtapositions often invokes the intermittent narrative of one’s associative memory. 

The following decades were marked by a modified, painterly sort of Photorealistic approach to the grand, panoramic landscape composition. His ability to evoke a sense of place and time, notably of the Texas landscape, is outstanding. Winter’s experimental forays into new approaches to figurative painting have come full circle in his current body of work in which Surrealism coalesces with Realism. The result is a union between the visual power of his paintings and a poetic abstraction of time and place that engage the viewer.

Roger Winter, born in Denison, Texas, currently splits his time between his studio in New York City and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Winter earned his BFA from the University of Texas in Austin, where he studied under a legendary Texas landscape painter of an earlier generation, Loren Mozley. He then earned his MFA from the University of Iowa, returning to Texas in 1961 where he taught drawing and painting at Southern Methodist University for 26 years. Winter is currently represented by Kirk Hopper Fine Art in Dallas, Texas.