Limited Edition Prints

The mission of the Texas Wounded Warrior Foundation is to raise awareness, to honor, and to empower our Wounded United States Military Warriors who live in Texas and surrounding states, enabling them to assimilate back to daily life upon their return from combat. We seek to provide Wounded Veterans injured from combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan with funding to defray the basic costs of living incurred, as a result of the short and long-term care of those injuries.

Our focus is to support programs and services such as the Warrior and Family Support Center in San Antonio at BAMC.  Additionally, huge gaps commonly exist before VA benefits begin for Wounded Warriors who return from Iraq or Afghanistan following combat injuries.  The Texas Wounded Warrior Foundation assists wounded veterans and ensures that they and their families receive private sector support to help fill this gap.  We also work closely with other agencies to provide needed services such as handicap upgrades to housing, transportation to and from medical appointments, and other needs.

larry dyke

Larry Dyke is one of the most talented and versatile artists in print today.  A native Texan, Dyke currently lives in Friendswood, Texas and began painting professionally in 1976. He prefers oil on canvas and is a master of composition and perspective, balancing attention to detail with exquisite artistry and imagery.  He is equally at home painting a manicured golf course or a panoramic landscape.

Dyke is best known for his fabulous paintings of classic golf courses.  He collects research and inspiration for his golf landscapes by visiting and playing many of the world famous courses he paints.  He has collaborated with Jack Nicklaus on painting several golf holes from Nicklaus’ courses.  Nicklaus is now a collector of Dyke’s work.

Other collectors of his work include prestigious celebrities and heads of State.  Dyke’s painting of the Pope’s visit to America was presented to the Pope and is hanging in the Vatican today.

The artist attributes his talent and inspiration to gifts from God – and every painting bears witness to his faith in God and a desire to paint the beauty of His creation.  The first book featuring his art, “Larry Dyke: Revealing the Beauty,” was released in 1999 and met with great success.

penni anne cross

Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross, (Alawa-sta-we-ches) was born in Washington state in 1939. She first studied with her portrait-painter mother, before beginning more formal studies in 1968. Her work is commercially oriented, sentimentalizing her paintings of Native Americans of the Crow tribe. Cross' Crow name, "Alawa-sta-we-ches," means "Travels the Good Road." The work of Penni Anne Cross is held in numerous private collections nationwide. Penni Anne Cross passed away in 2016.

Fred Stone

Attending Art Center College in Los Angeles and doing stints at Choinard and Otis, Fred was well on his way to a career as a commercial artist. Landing a job at the Advertising Agency Stevens-Gross on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Fred began honing his ability to tell stories through art working on illustrations for various clients. Grueling deadlines and a "Mad Men" lifestyle just didn't fit with Fred's style, so he and his wife, Norma, moved back to California, where he parlayed his artistic skills into Hollywood. Painting background flats for such TV shows as 'Gunsmoke', 'Rawhide', and 'Laugh-In', Fred loved the creativity and large scale that scene painting for the Studios gave him.

But his real breakthrough came with his painting "The Final Thunder" featuring the horse Man O'War and his beloved groom, Will Harbut. Deciding to make prints of the painting, Fred and Norma’s fledgling company Equinart was soon swamped with orders and quickly sold out. That set the ball rolling for the business, and finally gave Fred both the artistic freedom and financial stability he had been looking for.

Since that time, Fred has painted the greats of racing history – Barbaro, Secretariat, Zenyatta – and the men and women that helped make that history happen, all with a unique style and passion. With a catalog of over 150 paintings, many have been prized by collectors and horse enthusiasts alike. He has had the great honor of having his work presented to the Queen of England, the President of the United States, and hobnobbed with the celebrities both on and off the track. 

"My approach to painting the Thoroughbred is quite different from that of most artists that have painted them in the past. Although many horse lovers still prefer paintings done in the traditional style - portraying the horse against a background of beautiful scenery or regal pageantry, I am not comfortable with it. For me, the excitement comes in intimate close-up moods. The viewer must be able to see into the horse’s eyes, even in action scenes, because I believe that the eyes are the window to the soul. In that split second frozen in time, I try to bring out the emotion, power, and personality of these magnificent animals in a way that can’t always be seen by the human eye when the horses are moving at over forty miles per hour. Conveying the communication between man and animal – this is the biggest thrill for me. I hope this is what touches and moves the observer. 

I don’t think there is another business or sport of this magnitude in which both man and animal play such an integral part - where man’s skills, as well as his hopes and dreams, are completely tied to one of nature’s most helpless, but beautiful creatures. 

Over the years, I have come to know the very special breed of horse lovers who collect my work. They are fanatics: their love for these animals is unmatched by collectors of any other type of artwork. Most art collectors do not live with the subjects of their paintings on a day-to-day basis; many of my collectors do. They watch the animals being bred, being born, racing, growing old, and they watch them die. This makes them the toughest critics of all. It is to this rare group of people that I dedicate my work."

wayne baise

Although cattle are included in the majority of his paintings, Wayne’s favorite subjects are his horses.  He is especially talented when portraying a horse and is known for his ability to accurately portray their muscling and structure.  His four children, Elizabeth, William, Jonathan, and Charles each have their own quarter horses which they care for and train.  The children and their horses are also often seen in Wayne’s paintings.  

 In the late eighties, Baize shifted his focus away from the mixed media and pencil drawings, of which he had become so accustomed, and took the huge step of putting his main efforts into oil paintings.  The transition was encouraged by the prestigious Cowboy Artists of America.  With the critics of Cowboy Artist, Tom Ryan, and diligent hard work, Wayne made a relatively rapid transition into the world of oil paintings.

In 1995 he was invited to become a member of the Cowboy Artists of America.  Wayne Baize considers this to be the highest honor that he could obtain in his art career.  Wayne’s studio is graced by art awards with he has received from around the country through the years.  These include the silver medal award for drawings at the 1997 Cowboy Artist Show .  Most recently he was awarded the American Cowboy Culture Award for 2004.

Baize’s paintings and drawings have graced the covers of several horse and cattle magazines including The Quarter Horse Journal, Western Horseman, and the Texas Hereford.