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...
Grand Canyon
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...
An Audience of Immortals
40" x 24" Oil painting
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...
Tempestuous Depths
48" x 60"
Sunset on Bright Angel Trail
28" x 28" Oil on Canvas
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
Appochment
40" x 60"
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,...
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...
Contexture of August
36" x 36" Oil on Canvas $52,000
Bright Angel Trail
28" x 28" Oil on Canvas
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
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.
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...
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...
A Temple Seraphic
36" x 36" Oil on Canvas
When Shadows Touch
24x30 Oil on Canvas
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.
Last Moments of Summer
48" x 48"
Secret Vista Revisited
24" x 36" Oil on Canvas The area around this foreground formation near Maricopa Point is now closed to tourist so the National Park Service can reestablish the natural growth worn down over the years. I asked Ranger Scott to accompany me while I carefully painted at...
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...
Charm of Evening
12" x 10 Oil on Canvas Board
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.
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.
Light of the Moon
30" x 48" Oil on Canvas This work was show at the 2012 Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition and Sale at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles.
Winter Sun on Isis
20" x 20" Oil on Canvas This work will appear at the 2012 Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition and Sale at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles. For more information on the event, please visit this page.
January Levity
18" x 18" unframed 25" x 25" framed This painting was be shown at the Forbes Galleries during a show presented by Nedra Matteucci Galleries in 2011.
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...
On the Trail to Maricopa
16" x 16" This piece was a featured work at the 2011 Quest for the West Show and Sale at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indiana.
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.
Sun After A Winter Rain
18" x 14" This painting was at the 2011 Salmagundi Club Show and Sale.
















































