Announcing a major upcoming exhibition celebrating the career of one of the nation’s most revered plein air masters! “Curt Walters: A Lifetime of Art,” presented by the Fine Art Museum of Sedona (FAMoS), will open to the public this fall, running from September 2 through October 28, 2026.
Galleries and Shows
Antagonistically Beautiful
28” x 22” Oil on Canvas SOLD $24,500.00 As a guide using my 8x6 inch canvas from this experience I began a 28x22 in the studio. The color from this field study was my guide. I used a classic composition to begin my drawing and started with the sky. I added a...
The Crowning of Sunset
28" x 28" Oil on Canvas $28,000 In 2015 Tom and I visited the canyon in early March. Most of the day was gray and fog covered most of the canyon. On the rim trail that day, just east of El Tovar, the sun was breaking only in spots. I had a chance to quickly do a...
Adumbration
12" x 10" Oil on Canvas Panel Sold during a fundraising auction at the 2018 Prix de West show.
Cathedral Gap
30" x 48" Oil on Canvas Cathedral Gap will be one of three entries in the 2018 Prix de West Invitational in Oklahoma City, OK. I have wanted to paint Cathedral Gap for a very long time. This unique and epic scene is located 5 1/2 miles down the Hermit trail from the...
West from Plateau Point
14” x 14” Oil on Canvas Panel $6,800 “West from Plateau Point" was painted on one of Curt’s hikes down Bright Angel Trail and the side trail to Plateau Point. Looking west from the overlook, the awe inspiring view of the Colorado River 1200 feet below carves its way...
Midnight: San Filipe’s Chapel
24" x 24" Oil on Canvas Board $22,000 Midnight: San Filipe's Chapel, is a 24" x 24" which is a studio painting based on a plein air study he did while in Mexico City earlier this year. This is a nocturne of Metropolitan Cathedral. This work will be included in the...
February’s Catharsis
16" x 16" Oil on Canvas Board $11,000 This painting will be available at the 2017 Masters of the American West Exhibit and Show at the Autry Museum of the American West.
Road to Tohatchi
30" x 50" Oil on Canvas This painting features the Navajo Indian Reservation in August as the monsoon rolls over the desert. The small village of Tohatchi lies on the edge of the Reservation and was originally the meeting place of both the young and the old in the...
Ancients Revealed
20" x 20" Oil on Canvas Board One of four entries into the 2016 Prix de West Show and Sale. It displays the temples as they rise out of the fog in the earliest part of February. This was started on a very cold afternoon at the Canyon and later finished in the...
Spring’s Subtle Intonation
Oil on Canvas The third painting of Curt's to go to the 2016 Prix de West Show and Sale which was completed on location is Springs Subtle Intonation, was painted at Navajo Point, from the eastern side of the south rim. This oil on canvas depicts the 75-mile fault and...
Beneath the Cloak of Notos
60" x 72" Oil on Canvas This painting is the story of summer. As I was painting near Pima Point at the end of August in 2015, the constant play of light throughout the day brought to mind several mythological stories, especially the Greek God of the summer wind,...
Gilded Evening
24" x 54" Oil on Canvas $54,000 Following a monsoon shower, the intensity of the monuments at sunset causes an incredible gilded and golden light reminding me of a highly polished 24 karat gold.
Rio di Noale
12" x 10" $3500
Ponte Largo Giancinto Gallina
12" x 10"
Ushering in October
14" x 14" Oil on Canvas Board Featured in this painting of Grand Canyon is the amazing earthen Temple of Isis, on the trail east of Yavapi Point. I was about two hours into my painting when the weather changed and the clouds began to rumble. Knowing that chasing the...
Texture of the Monsoon
8" x 16" This painting was a featured work at the 2015 Quest for the West Show and Sale at the Eiteljog Museum. The Mittens of Monument Valley stand the test of time and Mother Nature as a dust and wind storm as it starts to travel across the desert floor during the...
Januarius
24" x 24" This painting was a featured work at the 2015 Quest for the West Show and Sale at the Eiteljorg Museum. This features Grand Canyon during the last hour of light the first week of January. The nearly full moon rising in the distance, preparing to fill the...
Contexture of August
36" x 36" Oil on Canvas $52,000
Spring at the Old Pendley Place
28" x 28" Oil on Canvas
Grand Explorer
30" x 31" Conté Drawing
Study: Mummy Cave Ruins
8" x 10"
Bright Angel Trail
28" x 28" Oil on Canvas
Ordering Descent 1540 Lopez de Cardenas
40" x 30" Conte Drawing $22,000 This drawing will be available at the 2015 Prix de West Show and Sale on June 13th in Oklahoma City, OK.
Salute at Midnight
14" x 14" Oil on Canvas As Tom and I were planning our trip to Venice in 2014, our close friends Mark and Carla shared their own, personal Venice story with us; they got engaged while having dinner at the world famous Harry’s Bar overlooking the Grand Canal and the...
Sinuous Brume
28" x 22" $25,000 Oil on Canvas This painting will be at the 2015 Prix de West Show and Sale on June 13th in Oklahoma.
Glimmering Finale
20" x 20" $16,000
My Studio: The Entrada
24" x 24 Oil on Canvas Since I was a child, I have been fascinated with the stories of the 1540 Coronado Expedition into the Southwest United States. This last fall I toured and painted Spain’s Cities of the Conquistadors so I could further study this subject. As I...
Shadow’s Rising: Lake O’Hara
10" x 12" $4,800 This painting will be in the 2014 Small Works, Great Wonders Show.
Palo Verde Glow
28" x 28"
Frozen Brilliance
20" x 20" $16,000.00 Oil on Canvas This painting will be featured in the West Select Show to be held on November 14th, 2014.
Ebullience
30" x 40" Oil on Canvas
Perchance for Eons
18" x 18" $12,000.00 The Grand Canyon, perchance for eons in creation, is the widest and deepest of its kind. It has never disappointed me. Every visit and every painting has its own unique story. In this painting the erosion of an early November rain intensifies the...
Gambogian Glow
28" x 28" Oil on Canvas Board This work will be a featured item in the Art Auction on June 14th at the 2014 Prix de West Show in Oklahoma City. The reserve price is $20,000. The painting is Grand Canyon and features Isis Temple and Dana Butt as seen near Mohave Point...
Transitions
8" x 16" Oil on Canvas Board
Gathos Reawakening
48" x 72" Oil on Linen Canvas The light is breaking after an early December storm, and bathes Zoroaster temple complex, seen from Yaki Point. The name for this grouping of temples derives from ancient Persian mythology. The song-like quality of the light and the...
Momentary Flare
12" x 10" Oil on Canvas Board This work will be available at the HeART of the West Auction at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum when Curt is awarded with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Learn more about the event and the award by going to this page.
Cyanic Day Interrupted
20" x 16" Oil on Canvas Board The color of the December day was a Phthalo-Cyanide Blue, and overcast. The sun, however, broke through the last few minutes of the day creating a spectacular moment. The view is of Cheops Temple as seen from Powell Point. This painting...
Clearing on the Kaibab
28" x 22" As this summer arrived and my studio was way too warm, I recalled a painting experience this last March. Quite unexpected, as spring was well under way, a deep fluffy snow covered most of Northern Arizona. Admittedly naive , because of bad road conditions, I...
Contradictions

Creekside Discovery
28" x 28" Oil on Canvas
Niagara Falls
42" x 90" Oil on Canvas $125,000.00
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...
November Wind
28" x 22" This painting will be a featured work of Curt's at the 2013 Prix de West Show and Sale. To learn more about the event, please visit this page.
Memory of Form
22" x 28" $9500 Oil on Canvas This painting is currently at Garland's Collector Room in Sedona, Arizona located in the Garland's building on Hwy. 179.
Display of Defiance
28" x 28" Oil on Canvas I painted this work over several early mornings in late June of 2012, near the base of Courthouse Rock in Sedona. The distant cliffs are seen in blue silhouette. Featured in the foreground are spectacular blooming Yuccas, common in the sandy...
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...
















































