Artist: Richard Reiner

Title: Riding Solo

Medium: Oil on canvas

Canvas: 30 × 48 in (76 × 122 cm)

Signature: Signed by the artist

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Riding Solo commands attention through scale alone — at 30 × 48 inches, this is a painting built for a significant wall, a work that asks to be the centre of a room. A solitary rider moving through open landscape: the image is elemental, unhurried, and deeply American. Reiner understands that the Western landscape is never merely scenery — it is protagonist, pressing in on the figure with its vastness, its silence, and its particular quality of light.

There is a meditative quality to Riding Solo that sets it apart from more dramatic Western subjects. This is not a painting of conflict or spectacle but of solitude — the rider and the land in a relationship of mutual indifference and quiet belonging. It is the kind of painting that rewards long looking, revealing new passages of colour and atmosphere as the eye moves across its generous surface.

Richard Reiner is a contemporary American painter specializing in Western subjects — landscapes, figures, and the living history of the American West. His work is characterized by strong draughtsmanship, atmospheric color, and a deep familiarity with his subject matter. Reiner is available for commissions; contact The Art Howse to discuss a bespoke work.