Tough by Nature: Portraits of Cowgirls and Ranch Women of the American West

National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame

The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame is pleased to announce the acquisition of Tough by Nature: Portraits of Cowgirls and Ranch Women of the American West by artist Lynda Lanker. The exhibit was a donation from Lynda Lanker. The gift encompasses 65 of Lanker’s drawings, paintings, works on paper and prints, which document a vanishing way of life that affirmed the role of women, many of them Hall of Fame Honorees, in the economy and ecology of the American West. It also includes primary source material – works of art, a lithograph stone, plates and tools, studies material created while working on the collection and archival materials such as interviews, biographies and photographs.

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