36" x 36" Oil on Canvas SOLD $62,500 This is one of four paintings being featured at the 2019 Prix De West Invitational at the National Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Awards & Honors
Compilation of the Gods
70" x 60" Oil on Canvas $185,000 Compilation of the Gods is a 70" x 60" depiction of moments Curt experienced at Grand Canyon over February and March 2017. The main temple formations and foreground composition come from the trail leading to Maricopa point. The snow...
First Touch of Winter
28" x 54" Oil on Canvas Sedona has been my home for 35 years, and I have yet to grow tired of the beauty that surrounds me there. First Touch of Winter was painted when the first snow of the season dotted the tops of the cliffs. As the storm passed, the evening light...
Temple Bar: Lake Mead
28" x 28" Oil on Canvas This painting was featured at the 2012 Quest for the West Show and Sale at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indiana in September. The lake was named in honor of Dr. Elwood Mead, who drafted the specifications for the Hoover Dam, on the Colorado River...
Crystal Rain
40" x 60" Oil on Canvas This work was featured at the 2012 Quest for the West Show and Sale at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, Indiana in September I was very fortunate to be at Grand Canyon this year in the later part of March when a heavy snow covered...
Sun Shadow Wind
40" x 50" Oil on Canvas The inspiration for this painting was conceived in 1986, on a painting trip to Grand Canyon with my artist friends, Earl Carpenter, Matt Smith, M.L. Coleman, and Joe Abbrescia. We naively tried to paint during a March windstorm near Mohave...
The Arborist’s Reward
28" x 28" This painting was awarded with the Best Painting Award at the 2010 Quest for the West show and Sale. I have always been fascinated by the arborists’ craft, especially with regard to apple trees. This ancient agricultural art reveals manicured old wood...
Enigmatic Longhouse
36" x 36" This painting will be featured at the 2011 Prix de West Show and Sale in Oklahoma City which runs from June 10th through August 7th.
Overture to Twilight
28" x 22" I was extremely pleased to have won the Patrons' Choice Award, at the Salmagundi Club’s American Masters show in New York. I am thrilled that a western subject matter, painted by a western artist, can transcend borders. The Grand Canyon has the power to...
Ra’s Domain
60" x 90" This painting was the winner of the 2007 Nona Jean Hulsey Buyer's Choice Award at the Prix de West show and sale.
Winter Grandeur Revealed
40" x 60" This painting was awarded with the Nona Jean Hulsey Buyers' Choice Award in 1998 at the Prix de West show and sale. Winter Grandeur Revealed is now available as a Brushstrokes Limited Edition Artist Proof Print.
Splendid Turmoil
54" x 84" Oil on Canvas Winter weather can hang at the Grand Canyon for many days, remaining overcast and frigid. I had stopped in the late afternoon to admire the great vistas and snow flurries from Mather Point on the South Rim, when in a magical moment, the sun...
Spring’s Caprice
36" x 36" This painting won the Prix de West Purchase award in 2007. View this page for the full article on the win.
Canyon Sinuosity
Canyon Sinuosity 50" x 40" This painting won the Patron's Choice Award at the Masters of the American West, Autry National Center, L.A. in 1999
Calf Creek Gorge
14" x 12" This painting was a part of the collection which won Walters the Best Overall Presentation at the 2007 Quest for the West Show.
A Diviner Air
36" x 28" This painting was a part of the collection which won Walters the Best Overall Presentation at the 2006 Quest for the West Show.
Apache Walls
48" x 78" This painting was awarded with the Frederic Remington Award at the 2004 Prix de West show and sale.
Grandeur Besieged
50" x 80" This painting won the Nona Jean Hulsey Buyers' Choice Award in 2003 at the Prix de West show and sale.
West from Lipan Point
16" x 24" This painting was a part of the collection which won Walters the Best Overall Presentation at the 2007 Quest for the West Show.
La Plata Thunder
40" x 60" This painting was a part of the collection which won Walters the Best Overall Presentation at the 2007 Quest for the West Show.
Rio Grande Reflections
48" x 48" This painting was awarded with the Frederic Remington Award at the 2005 Prix de West Show and Sale.
Ethereal Magic of Lauterbrunnen
40" x 60" This paining won the Patron's Choice Award from the Artists of America, Rotary Club, Denver in 1999.
September Afternoon at Lake O’Hara
36" x 36" This painting was the recipient of the Victor Higgins Work of Distinction given for the best individual work in the Quest for the West exhibition in 2007. It also won the Patrons' Choice Award that same night. Canada's Lake O'Hara, in Yoho National Park, is...
Vermilion Cliffs
48" x 48" Oil on Canvas This work now hangs in the halls of Henderson Fine Arts Building at San Juan College in Farmington, NM
Evening’s Dance of Light
36" x 36" The Artist of Distinction Award was given to Curt for this piece at the Quest for the West Show and Sale in 2008. It was one of the works chosen for the retrospective show in 2009, "Moments and Monuments," also at the Eiteljorg Museum.
National Treasure
30" x 60" Oil on Canvas Collection of Grand Canyon Association and Grand Canyon National Park This view is from Yaki Point on the South Rim. Crystalline ice falls over the North Rim during an October sunrise. I painted this as a gift to Grand Canyon National Park in...
