(Wild West Magazine) A native New Yorker,
Ron Lesser was introduced to art at an early age—though not at the Met, Guggenheim or Whitney. “When I was a child, I loved to study the drawings from comic books,” he says. “I wanted to be an illustrator for as long as I can remember. I had hundreds of comic books, which my parents threw out as soon as I moved out. Would be worth a lot of dollars today.”
He later studied at the Pratt Institute and then attended the Art Students League, where renowned painter and instructor Frank J. Reilly guided the young artist.
Having grown up a Western film buff, Lesser initially gravitated to Western subjects as a professional artist.
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