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Education

  • Farmington, New Mexico High School; Graduated 1969
  • New Mexico State University; 1969-1971
  • Taos Art Colony; Apprentice

Honors and Awards

2008

  • Trustee's Purchase Award, Masters of the American West, Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, California
  • Artist of Distinction Award, Quest for the West, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

2007

  • Chosen as one of “Eight True Masters.” Art of the West Magazine. Nov/Dec
  • Victor Higgins Work of Distinction Award, Quest for the West, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Buyer’s Choice Award, Quest for the West, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Prix de West Purchase Award, Prix de West, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
  • Nona Jean Hulsey Buyer’s Choice Award, Prix de West, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

2006

  • Best Overall Presentation Award, Quest for the West, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

2005

  • Frederic Remington Award, Prix de West, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

2004

  • Frederic Remington Award, Prix de West, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

2003

  • Chosen to paint Powell Award, given by Grand Canyon Trust for Hon. Bruce Babbitt, Former Secretary of the Interior, Phoenix

2002

  • Buyer’s Choice Award, Prix de West, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

2001

  • Named Honorary Board of Grand Canyon Foundation, Flagstaff, Arizona

1999

  • Patron’s Choice Award, Masters of the American West, Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, California
  • Patron’s Choice Award, Artists of America, Denver

1998

  • Buyer’s Choice Award, Prix de West, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

1994

  • Chosen to paint Grand Canyon for 75th rededication ceremonies by Grand Canyon Trust, Grand Canyon National Park

1987

  • Recognition for contribution to the Arts in New Mexico: “Curt Walters Avenue” named in the Nor Este Subdivision, Albuquerque

1977

  • John F. & Anna Lee Stacey Scholarship Award, Private Scholarship, Arizona

Museum Exhibitions

2009

  • Moments and Monuments, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis

2007

  • Quest for the West, Eiteljorg Musuem, Indianapolis
  • Prix de West, National Cowboy Museum, Oklahoma City

2006

  • Quest for the West, Eiteljorg Musuem, Indianapolis
  • Prix de West, National Cowboy Museum, Oklahoma City

2005

  • Prix de West, National Cowboy Museum, Oklahoma City
  • Salon d’Arts, Denver, Colorado
  • Masters of the American West, Autry Museum, Los Angeles

2004

  • Western Visions Miniature Show, Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole
  • Prix de West, National Cowboy Museum, Oklahoma City
  • Masters of the American West, Autry Museum, Los Angeles
  • Sea to Shining Sea, Haggin Museum, Stockton, California
  • Arizona Collects: Western Art, Desert Caballeros Museum, Wickenburg
  • Prix de West Artists Paint Trinchera, Forbes Magazine Galleries, New York

2003

  • Trappings Flagstaff Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, Arizona
  • Western Visions Miniature Show, Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole
  • Prix de West, National Cowboy Museum, Oklahoma City
  • Masters of the American West, Autry Museum, Los Angeles

2002

  • Masters of the American West, Autry Museum, Los Angeles
  • Prix de West, National Cowboy Museum, Oklahoma City
  • Western Visions Miniature Show, Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole

2001

  • Grand Canyon Expressions, Forbes Magazine Galleries, New York and Burlingame, California
  • Artists of America, Denver
  • Western Visions Miniature Show, Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole
  • Masters of the American West, Autry Museum, Los Angeles
  • Prix de West, National Cowboy Museum, Oklahoma City

2000

  • Artists of America, Denver
  • A Century of Grand Canyon Art, Kolb Studios, Grand Canyon National Park
  • Western Visions Miniature Show, Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole
  • Masters of the American West, Autry Museum, Los Angeles
  • Prix de West, National Cowboy Museum, Oklahoma City
  • Great American Artists, Cincinnati, Ohio

1999

  • Artists of America, Denver
  • Western Visions Miniature Show, Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole
  • Masters of the American West, Autry Museum, Los Angeles
  • Prix de West, National Cowboy Museum, Oklahoma City
  • Great American Artists, Cincinnati, Ohio

1998

  • Artists of America, Denver
  • Western Visions Miniature Show, Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole
  • Prix de West, National Cowboy Museum, Oklahoma City
  • Great American Artists, Cincinnati, Ohio

1997

  • Artists of America, Denver
  • Great American Artists, Cincinnati, Ohio

1996

  • Artists of America, Denver

1989

  • One Man Show, Pathways, Sedona Arts Center, Sedona, Arizona

1987

  • Capturing the Canyon, Mesa Southwest Museum. Mesa, Arizona
  • Boundless Realism, The Rockwell Museum, Cornell, New York

1983

  • The Grand Canyon, Sedona Arts Center, Sedona, Arizona

 

Gallery Shows

2003

  • One Man Show, Alterrmann Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2002

  • One Man Show, Trailside Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona

1995

  • One Man Show Beyond Tomorrow, Trailside Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona

1994

  • One Man Show, Trailside Gallery. Scottsdale, Arizona
  • Two Man Show, Trailside Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
  • Two Man Show, Altermann & Morris Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1993

  • One Man Show, Land of the Anasazi, Trailside Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona,
  • One Man Show, Paints California, The Jones Gallery, La Jolla, California
  • One Man Show, Vicissitude, Linda McAdoo Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1991

  • Halcyon Days, Linda McAdoo Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1990

  • One Man Show, Linda McAdoo Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1989

  • A Brush with Color, Trailside Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
  • One Man Show, Private Preview, Trailside Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
  • One Man Show, Sedona Arts Center, Sedona, Arizona

1988

  • Western Realism, Trailside Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona

1983

  • One Man Show, Taos Art Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
  • Three Man Show, Sedona Arts Center, Sedona, Arizona
  • Three Man Show, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff

1982

  • Group Show, Baker Gallery of Art, Lubbock, Texas

1981

  • Group Show, Linda McAdoo Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1980

  • Group Show, Aldridge Fine Arts Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico

1979

  • Taos Festival of the Arts

1978

  • Two Man Show, Taos Festival of the Arts

1977

  • Group Show, Brush Strokes ’77, Dodson Gallery, Taos, New Mexico

1976

  • One Man Show, Taos Festival of the Arts

1975

  • Taos Festival of the Arts

1973

  • New Mexico State Capitol Exhibition

Seminars

2004

  • Speaker, The Grand Canyon, Prix de West, Oklahoma City
  • Speaker, Art and Conservation at Grand Canyon, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix

2003

  • Speaker, Bruce Babbitt Award Ceremony, Grand Canyon Trust, Phoenix

2001

  • Speaker,   Art and Conservation at Grand Canyon, Artists of America, Denver

Collections

  • National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City
  • Pierce Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
  • Erivan and Helga Haub
  • Forbes Magazine Galleries, New York and Burlingame, California
  • Grand Canyon National Park
  • Kathie Lee Gifford
  • Frank Borman
  • Kareem Abdul Jabbar
  • The Estate of the late Robert Urich
  • New Mexico State University, Farmington, New Mexico
  • Leaning Tree Museum, Boulder, Colorado
  • Citizen’s Bank, Farmington, New Mexico
  • The Maytag Foundation

 

Bibliography

  • Axelrod, Alan. Art of the Golden West. New York: Abbeville Press, 1990.
  • Behrens, Shirley. “Glory of the Past, Beauty of the Present” Art of the West (12.3), April 1999, 74-79.
  • “Curt Walters: The Third Dimension” Art of the West (1.4) May/June 1988, 29-33.
  • Bishop, James Jr. “Curt Walters” Southwest Art, February 1997, 88-95.
  • “Captured in the Colors” Phoenix Magazine (30.6) June 1995, 92-96.
  • Bryant, Kathleen. “Into the Heart of the Grand Canyon” American Artist, Dec 2000, 33-48.
  • Crouch, Lorraine. “Roping the West” The Artist’s Magazine (18.11) Nov 2001, 46-48.
  • Davis, Lynn Pyne. “Arizona Regionalists” Southwest Art (32.4) September 2002, 104-113.
  • Doherty, Stephen. “Interpretations of the Colorado Landscape” American Artist, January 1997, 44-45.
  • “On Tour in Normandy” American Artist (62.669) April 1998, 19.
  • Duerr, Allan and Thomas Tierney. “Eight True Masters.” Art of the West Magazine, Nov/Dec 2007.
  • “The Grand Adventure” Art of the West, Nov/Dec 2000, 43-55.
  • Ellis, Nancy/ “Like No Other Place on Earth” Focus Sante Fe Jan-Mar 1990, 40-43.
  • Foreman, Rycke. “Curt Walters: Patient Prize Winner” Art-Talk (27.8) June/July 2007, 22-23.
  • Hagerty, Donald. Leading the West: One Hundred Contemporary Painters and Sculpters.  Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland Publishing, 1997.
  • Johnson, Hoyt. “Dear Readers” Sedona Magazine, Summer 1994, 25.
  • Kinsey, Joni. The Majesty of the Grand Canyon. Cobb, California: First Glance Books, 1998.
  • Lightner, James. Land of Sunlight: Contemporary Paintings of San Diego County. San Diego: San Diego Flora, 2007.
  • Nelson, Mary Carrol. “Curt Walters: Landscapes in the Realist Tradition” American Artist (44.455) June 1980, 50-55, 112-113.
  • Mollring, Christine. Erivan and Helga Haub Family Collection of Western Art. (Special two volume limited to 400 copies of edition).
  • Pollard, Senta Regis. “Curt Walters: Four Seasons of Expression” International Fine Art Collector (1.12) Dec/Jan 1992, 46-51.
  • Reid, John. “Plein Aire Painting: A New Buzz About an Old Tradition” Sedona Magazine, Fall 2005, 167-174.
  • Ruffner, Budge. “Curt Walters: The Immortal Dignity of Massive Stone” Southwest Art, April 1982, 98-105.
  • Ruland, Sylvia. “A New Freedom” Sedona Magazine, Winter 1988, 38-43.
  • Schneider, Wolf. “My World: A Visit with Painter Curt Walters” Southwest Art, Oct 2005, 130-131.
  • Webster, Dottie and Pamela Morris. A Window on Sedona. Sedona, Arizona: Cinnamon Stone Publishing, 2000.
  • Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Contemporary Western Artists. Southwest Art Publishing, 1982.
  • Stavig, Vicki. “The Glory of the American West” Art of the West Nov/Dec 1997, 50-51.
  • Trulsson, Nora Burba. “Fine Art: Landscape Artist Curt Walters at Home” Phoenix , Home and Garden (12.9) July 1992, 31-33.
  • Van Deventer, M.J. “Curt Walters Wins the Prix de West Purchase Award”, Persimmon Hill (35.2) Summer 2007, 10-12.
  • Zanetell, Myrna. “Curt Walters: Master of the Grand Canyon” Wildlife Art (25.5), Sept/Oct 2007, 24-28.

Publications

  • “Techniques of Impressionist Landscape Painting.” American Artist (55.593), December, 1991, 40-47.

 

Galleries

  • Claggett-Rey Gallery, Vail, Colorado
  • Trailside Galleries; Scottsdale, Arizona and Jackson Hole, Wyoming