HALL OF FAME ARTIST E.L. ‘BUSTER’ KENTON’S PAINTINGS OF COW CREEK

About 1970 Tommy and Jo Ann Sloan commissioned four paintings of Cow Creek Ranch by artist E.L. “Buster" Kenton. Two of the paintings, “Cow Creek Crossing" and “Hangman’s Tree," are actual sites at the ranch while the other two, “Roundup" and “Seminole Poling Canoe on Cow Creek," were imagined paintings. Kenton was well-known in his hometown of Kissimmee, where he was a former bronco rider and rodeo emcee. When not cowboying, he painted works such as the ones you see in our magazine. Osceola County High School still uses his cowboy images for the school mascot, Kowboy Jake, modeled after real-life Kissimmee cowboy Pete Clemons. Kenton died in 1991 and was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 1922.