To my delight a series of spectacular storms crossed Northern Arizona in the spring of 2023. In March I was lucky to catch a cold front as it was passing, leaving the rim and much of the upper levels of the Grand Canyon elevations covered with snow.
Grand Canyon
Wizard’s Touch
10" x 8" Oil on Canvas Board Wizard's Touch will be one of the items available for auction during the Saddle Up event at the Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West on October 15, 2022. Saddle Up II was recently awarded AZ Foothills magazine’s “Best Annual...
Lipan Vista in Smoke
8” x 6” Oil on Panel Auction Value: $2500.00 SOLD In June 2020 California was struggling with a series of wildfires, the worst in our nation's history. The smoke from those fires was carried an astonishing five hundred miles, across state lines, into Northern Arizona....
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...
Coronado’s Vista (2019)
Oil on Canvas Board 8" x 12" Rising from the Canyon Floor as a grand crowned pyramid, Coronado Butte stands alone as a king of his domain. I painted overlooking the Coronado Saddle, a location known to few these days, but popular with the visiting tourist artist...
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...
South From Point Sublime – by Curt Walters
12" x 12" Oil on Canvas Board VIEW THIS PAINTING ON THE PRIX DE WEST WEBSITE The 20-mile forest road to the point is extremely rough and it takes most of a day to negotiate it one way. But when you arrive you know it is well worth the effort. I think it is the most...
An Audience of Immortals
40" x 24" Oil painting
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 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
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...
February’s Finale
20" x 20" Oil on Canvas Board $17,000 “February’s Finale” is a Grand Canyon, oil on canvas board, measuring at 20” x 20” and is priced at $17,000. The Tower of Set complex is bathed in the vermilion light of a winter sunset. The snow tipped trees in the foreground...
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...
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.
Deluge of Light
18" x 18" Oil on Canvas Board $12,500 Deluge of Light shows a breaking of light during a winter storm at Grand Canyon. This painting was a study in preparation for Compilation of the Gods. This work will be included in the 2017 Prix de West Show and Sale in Oklahoma...
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...
Winter Opulence
30" x 48" Oil on Canvas
Tempestuous Depths
48" x 60"
Sunset on Bright Angel Trail
28" x 28" Oil on Canvas
September Morning at Yaki Point
20" x 20"
September Morning at Navajo Point
12" x 10" Oil on Canvas Board
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.
Coronado’s Vista
30" x 24"
Clement Hues of September
12" x 10"
Canyon Guardian
28" x 22"
Last Light on Vishnu
10" x 8" Oil
Mohave Fog
48" x 48" Oil on Canvas
Last Light on O’Neil
12" x 10" Oil on Canvas Board
Epilouge
40" x 60" Oil on Canvas
Acent to the Rim
16" x 16" Oil
Accesso
20" x 30" Oil on Canvas Board
Unexpected Bravado
14" x 14"
On the Trail to Lipan Point
14" x 14" Oil on Canvas Board
Appochment
40" x 60"
On the Trail to Coronado’s Saddle
14" x 14" Oil on Canvas Board This painting is featured in Curt's newest video. This will be one of three works featured at the Eiteljorg Museum 11th Annual Quest for the West Show and Sale.
August’s Alchemy
16" x 16" Oil on Canvas Board Monsoon season is always an exciting time for me to visit Grand Canyon. The weather swells and dark clouds give way to rain shows in late afternoon. When the clouds start to lift, warm moist air is set against the cool canyon walls, and...
From Afar
14" x 14" Oil on Canvas Board Curt can be seen in his latest video on YouTube working on Far Away, a 14" x 14 on canvas board, painted east of Mojave Point. Curt has captured the very last light as it hits the top of Isis Temple with a dusting of snow remaining from...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Alizarin Hues of August
8" x 6" $3,500.00 This painting will be a featured work at the 2015 Quest for the West Show and Sale at the Eiteljorg Museum. As the August sun set behind me, the pink and alizarin hues seemed to almost pop out of the walls of the canyon. This is one of my favorite...
Contexture of August
36" x 36" Oil on Canvas $52,000
