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...
Domestic
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,...
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.
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...
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...
November Color: Oak Creek Canyon
28" x 22" $24,000 This painting will be a featured work at the 2015 Quest for the West Show and Sale at the Eiteljog Museum. This was painted during early fall in Oak Creek Canyon at a location called Thompson's Crossing.
Contexture of August
36" x 36" Oil on Canvas $52,000
Spring at the Old Pendley Place
28" x 28" Oil on Canvas
Study: Mummy Cave Ruins
8" x 10"
Bright Angel Trail
28" x 28" Oil on Canvas
Vivacious November
10" x 8" Oil on Canvas Board
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.
Amphitheater of the Gods
48" x 48" $92,000.00 This painting depicts the Grand Canyon, after a monsoon shower. The sage covered talus slopes and the redwall have all darkened. The clouds left and the sun has suddenly struck the amphitheater of the Tower of Set and the nearby temples named for...
Glimmering Finale
20" x 20" $16,000
Spring in Espanola
30" x 40"
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.
Spring in Santa Fe
14" x 11" 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...
Through the Ages
36" x 36"
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...
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
Shadows of Long House
18" x 18" Oil
Spring Comes to Hidden Valley
20" x 20" Oil on Canvas Private Collection
When Shadows Touch
24x30 Oil on Canvas
Navajo Harvest
27x30 Charcoal Drawing $12,000.00
Creekside Discovery
28" x 28" Oil on Canvas
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.
Last Moments of Summer
48" x 48"
A Moment of Sun
20" x 20" Oil on Canvas Board
Summer Reflections
36" x 36" Oil on Canvas
Stormy Day at Las Trampas
12" x 12" Oil on Canvas Board I spent ten days this last July painting in and around Santa Fe. One of my favorite missions is San José de Garcia de Las Trampas located in Las Trampas, a beautiful mountain valley south of Taos on the old "High Road". This Spanish...
On the Way to Albuquerque
Oil on canvas board, 2012 I encountered this sweeping view twenty miles south of Santa Fe on I-25 . The Sandia Mountains afar and a monsoon sky set over a dry wash.
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...
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...
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...
















































