Master Painter Curt Walters Returns to the Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition Regarded as Western Art’s biggest show, this event takes place at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This will be Walters’ 12th year with the...

Walters begins to prepare for upcoming shows months in advance, and the 2008 Prix de West Art Exhibition and Sale is no exception.  Scheduled to begin on June 13th of this year, Walters had begun the show’s centerpiece even before he attended, and won at, the Masters of the American West show on February 2.

His past record at Prix de West is nothing short of astounding, with six awards received over a ten year period.  Last year, Walters took home his third Nona Jean Hulsey Buyers’ Choice Award in addition to the Prix de West Purchase Award.  “Spring’s Caprice,” the Purchase Award winner, has since been inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum’s permanent collection.

Internationally acclaimed artist Curt Walters, of Sedona, Arizona, will again be in attendance at the upcoming Prix de West Invitational’s opening weekend exhibition and sale in Oklahoma City on June 13 – 14.  The event, which runs through September 7, 2008, features over 300 paintings and sculptures by contemporary Western artists, as well as special seminars and receptions, and concludes with the awards banquet and a fixed sale.

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...