30" x 40" Charcoal Drawing on Gesso Hardboard In his charcoal drawing CAPTAIN PABLO DE MELGOSA AND JUAN GALERAS: PLANNING DESCENT- GRAND CANYON 1540, Curt drew his models standing at the edge overlooking Grand Canyon near Lipan Point. Captain Melgosa is wearing a...
Resilience
Aide-Mémoire
Aide-Mémoire: Cholla Power Plant 20” x 30” Oil on Canvas Board $24,000.00 When I was a child the giant towers of the Cholla Power Plant rose high from the desert floor, near Joseph City Arizona, next to what became Interstate 40. Defining the west, all through my...
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...
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...
The Changing Imprint of Summer
20" x 20" Mount Hayden from Point Imperial on the North Rim in August.
An Audience of Immortals
40" x 24" Oil painting
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
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...
Midnight: San Filipe’s Chapel
24" x 24" Oil on Canvas Board $22,000 Midnight: San Filipe's Chapel, is a 24" x 24" which is a studio painting based on a plein air study he did while in Mexico City earlier this year. This is a nocturne of Metropolitan Cathedral. This work will be included in the...
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...
Tempestuous Depths
48" x 60"
Sunset on Bright Angel Trail
28" x 28" Oil on Canvas
Coronado’s Vista
30" x 24"
Epilouge
40" x 60" Oil on Canvas
Acent to the Rim
16" x 16" Oil
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...
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,...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
A Temple Seraphic
36" x 36" Oil on Canvas
Evening at the Palace Gate – Vienna
14" x 14" Oil on Canvas Board
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"
Temple Bar: Lake Mead
28" x 28" Oil on Canvas This painting was featured at the 2012 Quest for the West Show and Sale at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indiana in September. The lake was named in honor of Dr. Elwood Mead, who drafted the specifications for the Hoover Dam, on the Colorado River...
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...
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...
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.
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.
Windmills of La Mancha
9 " x 12" Oil on Canvas Board
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...
The Arborist’s Reward
28" x 28" This painting was awarded with the Best Painting Award at the 2010 Quest for the West show and Sale. I have always been fascinated by the arborists’ craft, especially with regard to apple trees. This ancient agricultural art reveals manicured old wood...
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.
Winter at Mather Point
48" x 48"
Overture to Twilight
28" x 22" I was extremely pleased to have won the Patrons' Choice Award, at the Salmagundi Club’s American Masters show in New York. I am thrilled that a western subject matter, painted by a western artist, can transcend borders. The Grand Canyon has the power to...
Ra’s Domain
60" x 90" This painting was the winner of the 2007 Nona Jean Hulsey Buyer's Choice Award at the Prix de West show and sale.
Snow Flurries over the North Rim
16" x 12"
In All It’s Glory
18" x 18"
Grand Canyon’s Timeless Charm
40" x 40" This view is from the Rim Trail, near Yavapai Point, on the south rim. This was the area that early tourists to the Canyon would have first encountered and explored. The tourists were enticed to the Canyon with images created by early artists, and by the...
Winter’s Levity
50" x 80" One of my greatest pleasures is to show up at Grand Canyon as a cold front is moving across the region. In this painting, I have tried to reflect the playful dance of light as the sun peeks in and out of the moving clouds. This is a view from Powell Point,...















































