Curt Painting Door of Forgiveness, Seville Cathedral

Curt on the Way to Madrid for a Day of Painting

Curt Painting in Madrid

Curt Painting Avenida de la Constitucion, Seville, Spain

Curt Painting in Seville

Curt painting in Ronda, Spain

Curt Painting the Gate of Philip V, Ronda

Curt Painting the New Bridge, Ronda,Spain

Curt Painting the Alhambra from San Nicolas Viewpoint

Curt Painting The Ladies Tower, El Partal Garden, The Alhambra

Curt Painting the Alhambra, Granada, Spain

Curt Painting in the Cordaba Mosque, Spain

Curt Painting Windmills of La Mancha, Spain

Curt Painting The Old Bridge, Toledo

Curt painting The New Bridge, Toledo

Curt and John Moyers Painting Nocturn Madrid, Spain

Painting Honfleur, France

Curt painting view of Toledo, Spain

Painting Still Life inside Chateau de Belleroy

Painting interior Chateau Belleroy

Curt Walters at Chateau de Belleroy, France

Arizona Artist Ready for Small Works, Great Wonders

ARIZONA ARTIST READY FOR SMALL WORKS, GREAT WONDER

Sedona, Arizona, Master Artist Curt Walters is well-known for his grandiose paintings of the Grand Canyon. This Fall, however, Walters will have the opportunity to think smaller...

The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City will present the Small Works, Great Wonders Winter Art Sale. All featured artwork measures no more than 18" x 20" unframed.

"Morning's Last Shadows" oil 8x6 $3600
©2010 by Curt Walters

Walters will show three oil paintings there. "Morning's Last Shadow" measures a mere 8" x 6" while both "Season's First Color" and "A Moment of Sun" measure 12" x 12"

Walters was honored with the coveted Prix de West Award at The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in 2007. He  has also won three Nona Jean Hulsey Buyers' Choice Awards and two Frederic Remington Paintings Awards at the Oklahoma show since 1997.

The artist was recently the recipient of the first Patron's Choice Award at the Salmagundi Club's American Masters Show in New York City. Quest for the West, at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, declared Walters the Artist of Distinction in 2008. That same year, the Autry National Center in Los Angeles paid tribute with the Trustees' Purchase Award.

In addition to these shows, The Rendevouz will pair Walters with sculptor Veryl Goodnight next year for a special two-person show at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

His work is found in museums and public and private collections throughout the world, including those of the Forbes Magazine Gallery, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the estate of Robert Urich, astronaut Frank Borman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and the Leanin' Tree Museum.

His paintings are available at the Trailside Galleries of Scottsdale, Arizona, and Jackson, Wyoming, the Claggett/Rey Gallery in Vail, Colorado, and in Santa Fe at the Nedra Matteucci Galleries. Original artwork and prints are also available through his online gallery at www.curtwalters.com.

To learn more about the Small Works, Great Wonders exhibit or the National Cowboy Museum, please visit http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/events/swgw/default.aspx.

Small Works, Great Wonders, 2010 Winter Art Sale

The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum will host another wonderful Small Works, Great Wonders Art Show and Sale on November 18, 2010.

Curt Walters is only one of the many artists to be showing his work during this exhibit. This show features paintings and sculptures by the famed artists invited by the museum to attend. Art will go on display November 12th and the show will run through December 5th.

The work Curt will be showing is a fantastic display of newly turned aspen trees called "Season's first Color," an oil, 12" x 12" and priced at $5,500. The second is a stunning "A Moment of Sun" as it peeks so sleepily from an overcast afternoon. Also an oil, it measures at 12" x 12" and is priced at $5,800. The last of Curt's entries is "Morning's Last Shadows" - a moment quickly lost to the hight of the afternoon, is a small but amazing at only 8" x 6." This last oil is priced at $3600.

For more information on Curt Walters and his work, please visit his website or Facebook Fanpage.

"Season's first Color" oil 12x12 $5,500©2010 by Curt Walters

"A Moment of Sun" oil 12x12 $5,800.
©2010 by Curt Walters

"Morning's Last Shadows" oil 8x6 $3600
©2010 by Curt Walters

LOCAL MASTER ARTIST WINS BIG SHOW

The Arborists' Reward • 28" x 28"

Curt Walters of Sedona, Arizona, has been honored again at the Eiteljorg Museum's Quest for the West art show. The Master Artist was pleasantly surprised with the Henry Farny Award for Best Painting, for "The Arborists' Reward."

The 28" x 28" oil painting came to life at Garland's Oak Creek Lodge in Sedona this past Spring. Walters' has made it his mission to paint as many of the old Sedona homesteads and orchards as possible before they are gone.

For more than a decade, Walters has been known as the "Greatest Living Grand Canyon Artist." However, this award for a non-Canyon piece reflects a growing appreciation for his other subjects.

Held in Indianapolis, Indiana, the annual art show featured "Moment and Monument" last year, a special one-man, 20-year retrospective of Walters' work, hosted specially for his 2008 Victor Higgins Artist of Distinction Award.

Walters has won a total of six awards from Quest for the West, in addition to six from the Prix de West show at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, which includes the Prix de West Purchase Award. He has won Patrons' Choice Awards from the Salmagundi Club's American Masters, Denver's Artists of America, and Masters of the American West at the Autry National Center in L.A., where he was also the recipient of the Trustee's Purchase Award.

Next year, Walters and sculptor Veryl Goodnight will team up for "The Rendezvous," a special two-person show to be held at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

His work is found in museums and public and private collections throughout the world, including the Forbes Magazine Gallery, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, astronaut Frank Borman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Frank and Kathie Lee Gifford, and the Leanin' Tree Museum.

His paintings are available at the Trailside Galleries of Scottsdale, Arizona, and Jackson, Wyoming, the Claggett/Rey Gallery in Vail, Colorado, and at his online gallery at curtwalters.com.

10 Years of Conservation Through Art

October of 2004 marks a major milestone for artist Curt Walters of Sedona, Arizona: 10 years of successful crusading against pollution in and around the Grand Canyon. While honing the skills of a plein-aire impressionist through the ‘70s and ‘80s, his passion for location painting and strict attention to detail inadvertently captured the worsening air quality over the whole of the Colorado Plateau. Concerned, Walters was moved to action.

Finding worthy ideals with the Grand Canyon Trust, Walters utilized his forte and put brush to canvas for their cause. In October of 1994, the Trust chose the artist to create a commemorative painting for the 75th anniversary of Grand Canyon as a National Park, accepted on behalf of the National Park Service by Robert Arenberger, then Superintendent of Grand Canyon, and attended by Bruce Babbitt. Walters then licensed the 30” x 60” oil-on-canvas, titled “National Treasure,” for reproduction on everything from postcards to posters, and donated all proceeds from park sales directly to the Trust. He has also pledged a percentage from each sale of Grand Canyon images to the organization. To date, his contributions have garnered over half a million dollars for the Grand Canyon Trust.

In addition to financial and artistic donations, he also gives freely of his time, organizing educational forums and fundraising trips among his peers. In 1999, Walters invited 14 fellow artists on an 8-day, 88-mile painting excursion through Grand Canyon on the Colorado River. Dozens of the 200-plus pieces produced were contributed to the Trust after a special showing at the Forbes Magazine Galleries in New York, bringing in well over $200,000 for the conservation organization. In June of this year, Curt Walters and Deborah Tuck, President of the Grand Canyon Foundation, shared the podium at the Prix de West Art Exhibition and Sale in Oklahoma City, giving a speech and video presentation about the conservation of all the park’s natural and historic resources. Walters serves as a boardmember of the Grand Canyon Foundation alongside the likes of Sen. John McCain.

At this year’s Prix de West, Walters’ 48” x 78” “Apache Walls” earned him top honors, winning the coveted Frederic Remington Painting Award. He has also been the recipient of many Buyers’ Choice Awards from Prix de West, Denver’s Artists of America and the Autry Museum’s Masters of the American West shows.

Though best known as a Western landscape impressionist--in fact, he is often labeled as “the greatest living Grand Canyon artist”--Walters takes time each year to stretch his artistic legs and enjoy painting holidays all over the Pacific Islands, Europe and the Middle East. Most recently, he revisited the Forbes’ Chateau de Balleroy in Normandy, France.

Walters’ Grand Canyon and international paintings can be found at the Trailside Galleries of Scottsdale, AZ and Jackson, WY, where the artist has been represented now for 25 years. He will unveil his newest masterpiece at the Scottsdale gallery this Saturday, the 23rd of October. Other galleries include the Altermann Galleries in Santa Fe, NM, Pitzer’s of Carmel, Carmel, CA, and in Hilton Head, SC at the Morris Galleries. Some of the artist’s avid collectors are Christopher Forbes, Frank Borman, Kareem Abdul Jabar, Kathie Lee Gifford and the late Robert Urich.

For more information on Curt and his upcoming events, please visit the website.

Curt Walters Headed to Prix de West in June

Master Artist Curt Walters will make his 14th appearance at Prix de West, the annual art exposition and sale held at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. The show starts on Friday, June 11 and runs through September 6, 2010.
Walters will show four pieces while there. This year he is including New Garden Hollyhocks (28" x 22"), Winter's Eloquent Solitude (40" x 60"), A Memorable Cast (36" x 36") and the beautiful Guilding the Altar (18" x 14").
He will also deliver a special seminar, "Adventures in Plein Air Painting." It will feature a history of plein air and the artists who have influenced Walters, video and pictures of his artwork and travels, and a "mini" art lesson that covers the vital elements of both studio and on-location painting.
Walters was honored with the coveted Prix de West Award in 2007, and has won 3 Nona Jean Hulsey Buyers' Choice Awards and two Frederic Remington Paintings Awards in Oklahoma since 1997.

The artist was recently the recipient of the first Patron's Choice Award at the Salmagundi Club's American Masters Show in New York City. Quest for the West, at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, declared Walters the Artist of Distinction in 2008. That same year, the Autry National Center in Los Angeles paid tribute with the Trustees' Purchase Award.
In September, Walters will be part of a special show to benefit the new Visitor Center at Mesa Verde, Colorado. Sculptor Veryl Goodnight is also contributing to the show. Goodnight and Walters will be paired next year for The Rendevouz, a two-person show at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
His work is found in museums and public and private collections throughout the world, including the Forbes Magazine Gallery, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the estate of Robert Urich, astronaut Frank Borman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and the Leanin' Tree Museum. His paintings are available at the Trailside Galleries of Scottsdale, Arizona, and Jackson, Wyoming, the Claggett/Rey Gallery in Vail, Colorado, and at his online gallery at curtwalters.com.

Winter's Eloquent Solitude (40" x 60")
A Memorable Cast (36" x 36")	New Garden Hollyhocks (28" x 22")	Guilding the Altar (18" x 14")