William Acheff, Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project

William Acheff was interviewed in his Taos, New Mexico, studio by Dickinson Research Center Director Chuck Rand and videotaped by Curator of Art Ed Muno on May 6, 2009. A master at trompe-l'œil (fool the eye technique), William Acheff has won two Prix de West Awards for Flapjacks (1989) and As You Were (2004). A chance meeting of artist Roberto Lupetti in the barbershop where he was working set Acheff on a path toward a career in fine art. An innovator in Western still life, Acheff has been emulated and imitated by many contemporary painters.
Film clips are from an interview with artist William Acheff as part of the A. Keith Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project. The full interview is available for viewing in the Donald C. & Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
The A. Keith Brodkin Project facilitates the collection, preservation, and accessibility of primary resources such as personal papers, studio ephemera, photographs, libraries, and other items which are often overlooked and lost to posterity and which reflect the artists life and career. Additional resources are acquired through personal oral histories via recorded interviews. Collecting these resources effectively preserves artists careers for posterity and provides future artists, art historians, educators, and researchers with documentary evidence.
Please visit these websites:
The A. Keith Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project:
www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/r...
Donald C. & Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center:
www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/r...
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum:
www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/

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Did he sign any of his paintings?