Oil 14" x 12"
Studio Painting
My Youthful Notion Summoned
My Youthful Notion Summoned: Rainbow Bridge 40” x 40” oil on canvas $64,000.00 A summer vacation in 1967 led me to the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Among the many treasures I was youthfully smitten with a small 1921 oil painting of Rainbow Bridge by the great...
West from Mohave
20" x 20" Oil on Canvas Panel West from Mohave features the vista looking west from the famed view point, Mohave, on the west rim drive of the South Rim, Grand Canyon. Recently painted just for this show, Curt has captured a multitude of planes receding into...
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...
Halcyon Air of a February Morning
14” x 14” Oil on Canvas Panel SOLD $6400.00 This painting was in many ways a gift to myself. Because of the pandemic, endless smoke and a year without clouds, a trip to Grand Canyon after my first covid shot seemed like the right thing to do. I set up early to paint...
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...
Confucius in Smoky Silhouette
14" x 11" Oil on Canvas Board Price $5,200 This is one of four paintings being featured at the 2019 Prix De West Invitational at the National Cowboy Museum in Okalhoma City, Oklahoma
A Day in La Cruz
12" x 12" Oil on Canvas Board Price $4,800 This is one of four paintings being featured at the 2019 Prix De West Invitational at the National Cowboy Museum in Okalhoma City, Oklahoma
A Chasm of Sublime: Plateau Point
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
Changing Imprint of Summer
20" x 20" Oil on Canvas Mount Hayden from Point Imperial on the North Rim in August. This painting will be shown at the 2019 Prix de West Show and Sale in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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...
Mystique of March
20" x 20" Oil on Canvas Board This painting was at the 2017 Quest for the West Show and Sale at the Eiteljorg Museum.
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...
Appochment
40" x 60"
Ancients Unveiled
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...
The Gift of Persistence
36" x 36" Gift of Persistence was conceived from the smaller “Bluster at Yavapai Point.” Curt can be seen in his latest YouTube video working on the smaller 12” x 12” near Yavapai Point. You can see and at times hear as a cold front passes by. Both titles were derived...
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,...
Guilded 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.
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
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.
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...
Spring in Espanola
30" x 40"
Oriental Accents
30" x 24" Oil on Canvas
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...
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...
November’s Trinity
36" x 36" Oil on Canvas The trinity mentioned in the painting’s title consists of Deva Temple, Brahma Temple, and Zoroaster Temple, which together stand in jeweled tones against the crisp, clear fall air. As the winter winds start to blow into the Canyon, shadows that...
A Temple Seraphic
36" x 36" Oil on Canvas
Navajo Harvest
27x30 Charcoal Drawing $12,000.00
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...
Last Moments of Summer
48" x 48"
After the Catch: Puerto Penasco
20" x 30" Oil on Canvas This work was one of the selections at the 2012 Prix de West show and sale in Oklahoma City.
Star of the Storm
60" x 50" Oil on Canvas Minimum bid $85,000 This work will be one of the selections at the 2012 Prix de West show and sale in Oklahoma City.
La Macarena
28" x 22" Oil on Canvas This studio painting drew its inspiration from Spain, featuring the Madonna in the ornate gold and silver Altar of Basilica de la Macarena Seville. Please visit and subscribe to Curt's YouTube Channel for videos recapping the trip he took to...
New Snow and Evening Light
20" x 30" Oil on Canvas "New Snow and Evening Light" captures the drama of a winter storm over the canyon last November. Please visit and subscribe to Curt's YouTube Channel for videos recapping the trip he took to Spain and France in the fall of 2010.
View of Toledo
30" x 60" Oil on Canvas This painting will be shown at the Forbes Galleries during the "Nedra Matteucci Galleries," presented by Nedra Matteucci Galleries. Please visit the Nedra site to make your reservations for this show.
The Puente Nuevo and Rio Guadalevin
40 " x 30" unframed 51 "x 41" framed $40,000 This painting will be shown at the Forbes Galleries during the "Nedra Matteucci Galleries," presented by Nedra Matteucci Galleries. Please visit the Nedra site to make your reservations for this show.
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...
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.
Monsoon Showers For Chuar Valley
24" x 40" 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.
Seasons Pageantry
40" x 30" Oil on Canvas
The Siege of Time
40" x 72" The south rim of the Grand Canyon offers little creature comfort in February. Winds relentlessly attack the Canyon as they have for thousands of centuries. This painting is about winter and wind at the Grand Canyon. Cold, clean winds form the southwest slice...
Sunset Over Hoskanini
30" x 30" I think that the Navajo reservation is one of this country’s most beautiful places. Within its boundaries are some of the Colorado Plateau’s most spectacular land forms, and the skies are always so big and dramatic. This sunset greeted me as I was leaving...
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
Mohave Centenarian
28" x 25"
