Scared Dog With Crow Brian Dowdall Painting

A blue dog stands frightened as a crow perches on its head. Set against a fiery background and in a deep green frame. Brian Dowdall was born in Anaconda, Montana in 1948, the oldest of seven children in a first-generation Irish Catholic family. Dowdall spent most of his childhood hiking in the beautiful Montana mountains, and Dowdall said growing up in this constant outdoor setting developed in him a strong kindred spirit with nature and animals—what would later become the central subjects of his paintings. Once he graduated high school, Dowdall left his hometown and spent most of the 1960s hitchhiking across the United States and Mexico, experiencing communal living and farming as he toured the countrys' national parks and wilderness areas. After his decade of self-discovery, Dowdall finally settled down in Florida, where he stayed for the next 33 years. It was in Florida that Dowdall finally started taking up painting more seriously and was soon working alongside southern folk art m