To say the painter-turned-gunsmith completely abandoned his artistic inspiration, however, wouldn’t be true. “So I had to pick, and I picked muzzleloaders.”
“When I was at the easel doing paintings I’d think, ‘Man, I’d rather be in the shop working on a gun.’ And when I was in the shop working on guns, I’d think, ‘Man, I need to be back in there on the easel,’” Chuck says. After firing a friend’s flintlock rifle for the first time, his artistic inspiration changed with a flash and a bang.
A keen eye for detail led him to pursue western art as a portraitist. The arc of Chuck Edwards’ life has always followed twin themes: history and art.
