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...
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...
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...
20" x 20" Mount Hayden from Point Imperial on the North Rim in August.
40" x 24" Oil painting
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
48" x 60"
28" x 28" Oil on Canvas
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40" x 60" Oil on Canvas
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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...
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...
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,...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
36" x 36" Oil on Canvas
14" x 14" Oil on Canvas Board
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...
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.
48" x 48"
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
48" x 48"
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...
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.
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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...
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,...
40" x 60" In the fall of 2003, I was fortunate enough to raft the lower Colorado River, below Phantom Ranch, on a trip with the Grand Canyon Foundation. On this trip were five National Park Superintendents, including Grand Canyon’s own Joe Sylvan. Although a good...
28" x 26" In the fall of 1996 I spent two months travelling and painting in Italy. Seeing these historical sites, which I had previously only seen as a kid in the theatre, in a city I had longed to see all my life. It was beyond rewarding and exciting. This...
