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.

Top-Award Winning Artist Returns to Autry

Curt Walters, the most distinguished landscape artist of our time, is gearing up for the first major Western Art show of the year, the 12th annual Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition and Sale.  Walters will be on hand at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles for the opening weekend events, beginning on Saturday, February 7, 2009, at 10:00am.

The artist first showed at the Masters show in 1999, when he was thrilled to receive the Patrons' Choice Award.  At last year's show, Walters was honored with the Trustee Purchase Award.  The winning piece, "Splendid Turmoil," is now a part of the Museum's permanent collection.

Walters will showcase four pieces this year, including a massive 50" x 80" oil-on-canvas, "Bright Angel Point."  One of his signature Grand Canyon pieces, this work was stirred to life by a weeklong painting hike at the North Rim of Grand Canyon.  In a rare move, the artist decided to include the field study of the same piece among his submissions.


For more than a decade, Walters has been an integral part of Western Art's Big 3 shows, Masters of the American West, Prix de West in Oklahoma City, and the Quest for the West show in Indianapolis.  In that time, he has won the Prix de West Purchase Award, an unprecedented double-win of the Frederic Remington Award in 2004 and 2005, six Patrons'/Buyers' Choice Awards, the Victor Higgins Work of Distinction Award, and the Artist of Distinction Award, among others.  The Artist of Distinction Award is celebrated with a special 90-day, one man show to be held at the Eitlejorg Museum in Indianapolis this September.

For more information about the Masters of the American West show or the Autry Museum, go to http://www.autrynationalcenter.org/masters2009/.

To view the Awards and Honors Curt has recieved over the years, please view his Picasa Photo Albums here.

Artist Curt Watlers Celebrates 10 Years at Prix de West

Friday, June 8, marks the 34th annual Prix de West invitational, and will embrace more than 100 artists, including every past winner, so Curt Walters, of Sedona, Arizona, is going to have to be in top form. Preparing for his 10th year with the exhibition at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Walters has prepared what proves to be the largest piece of the show, a 60” x 90” Grand Canyon interpretation titled “Ra’s Domain.”

This substantial showpiece “embodies some of my favorite canyon themes,” Walters says. “The challenge of such a large canvas is to examine that which I love and fear. Here, great earthen temples named for the Egyptian Gods speak to us of eternity. We see the Tower of Ra keeping watch over a land of extremes: sun versus shadow; reason versus imagination; simplicity versus complexity; and, yes, even love versus fear. Grand Canyon perfectly embodies these disparate factions that compose everyday life.”

The artist’s repertoire for this year includes a second Grand Canyon, “Spring’s Caprice,” 36” x 36”, and two pieces from his trip to Banff and Yoho National Parks in Canada last year. The 10” x 12” “Bow Lake” captures Bow Glacier, headwaters for the Bow River, and “Afternoon at Lake O’Hara,” 12” x 12”, is one of three works at this year’s show to feature the quiet Canadian lake. The other two are by friend and fellow hiker John Moyers, who actually introduced Walters to the secluded location.

Curt Walters has won a remarkable four medals from Prix de West over his past nine years, more than any other artist in the museum’s history. Awarded the Nona Jean Hulsey Buyers’ Choice Award his very first year, Walters was again honored with the same award in 2002. Then, in 2004 and 2005, the artist was bestowed with an unprecedented back-to-back win of the Frederic Remington Painting Award. Walters has also received Patrons’ Choice Awards from the Masters of the American West expo at the Autry National Center and the Artists of America show in Denver. Last year he was honored with the Best Overall Presentation at the star-studded, first annual Quest for the West show at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis. He is also featured in the June/July issue of Art Talk.

When Walters is not busy with art shows, he devotes time to his other great passion, conservation of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado Plateau. Through personal donations of profits and paintings, and time devoted to fund-raising events and special seminars, Walters has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Grand Canyon Trust and the Grand Canyon Foundation, where he sits on the board of directors.

Walters has been represented by the Trailside Galleries of Scottsdale, AZ, and Jackson, WY for more than 25 years. His work can also be found at the Claggett/Rey Gallery in Vail, Co, and the Morris Gallery of Hilton Head Island, SC.