About the artist:

Curt Walters, b 1950, Las Cruces, New Mexico (United States) Many collectors around the world know American impressionist Curt Walters as one of the premier Grand Canyon artists. What is not commonly known is that Walters is also a rebel with a cause. Ten years ago, Walters decided to begin donating original paintings and arranging artist fund raising trips for the Grand Canyon Trust, a conservation advocacy group. Walters has helped raise a half million dollars for his cause and is an honorary board member of the Grand Canyon Foundation, joining such dignitaries as Robert Redford and Senator John McCain. While the dynamic landscapes of New Mexico and Arizona have long dictated his preferred choice of subject matter, Walters has also spent nearly 30 years capturing his impressions of the world’s landscapes; from Monet’s gardens at Giverny, to the magnificence of Florentine architecture and the exotic temple gardens of Bali. Education • New Mexico State University, 1969-1971 • Taos Art Colony, Apprentice Selected Exhibitions • Trailside Galleries, Art of the National Parks, Scottsdale, AZ, 2014 • Mesa Verde Foundation, Rims to Ruins, Denver, CO, 2013 • National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Prix de West, Oklahoma City, OK, 1998-2013 • Phoenix Art Museum, The West Select, Phoenix, AZ, 2011-2013 • Eiteljorg Museum, Quest for the West, Indianapolis, IN, 2006-2012 • National Museum of Wildlife Art, Western Visions Miniature Show, Jackson Hole, WY, 1998-2004, 2006-2012 • Gilcrease Museum of Art, Rendezvous, Tulsa, OK, 2011-2012 • Grand Canyon Celebration of the Arts, Grand Canyon, AZ, 2010-2012 • Salmagundi Club, American Masters, New York City, NY, 2009-2012 • Forbes Magazine Galleries, A Painting Journey to France and Spain: Moyers-Walters-Moyers, New York City, NY, 2011 • Autry National Center, Masters of the American West, Los Angeles, CA, 1999-2005, 2008-2010 • Eiteljorg Museum, Monuments and Moments: The Plein Aire and Studio of Curt Walters, Indianapolis, IN, 2009 • Booth Western Art Museum, Painting the Canyon: Selected Works from Grand Canyon Collections, Cartersville, GA, 2009 • Salon d'Arts, Denver, CO, 2005 • Haggin Museum, Sea to Shining Sea, Stockton, CA, 2004 • Desert Caballeros Museum, Arizona Collects: Western Art, Wickenburg, AZ, 2004 • Forbes Magazine Galleries, Prix de West Artists Paint Trinchera, New York City, NY, 2004 • Flagstaff Center for the Arts, Trappings, Flagstaff, AZ, 2003 • Trailside Galleries, One Man Show, Scottsdale, AZ, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994,1995, 2002 • Forbes Magazine Galleries, Grand Canyon Expressions, New York City, NY & Burlingame, CA, 2001 • Artists of America, Denver, CO, 1996-2001 • Kolb Studios, A Century of Grand Canyon Art, Grand Canyon, AZ, 2000 • Great American Artists, Cincinnati, OH, 1997-2000 • Sedona Arts Center, Sedona, AZ, 1983, 1994 • Sedona Arts Center, The Grand Canyon, Pathways, Sedona, AZ, 1983, 1989 • The Rockwell Museum, Boundless Realism, Cornell, NY, 1987 • Mesa Southwest Museum, Capturing the Canyon, Mesa, AZ, 1987 • Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ, 1983 • Taos Festival of Arts, Taos, NM, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979 • New Mexico State Capital Exhibition, 1973 Selected Press • Western Art and Architecture, Shari Morrison, "Landscape Traditions", June/July 2013 • Sedona Monthly, Erika Ayn Finch,"Home is Where the Artist Is" ,March 2012 • Guidebook of Art: Art of the West, Tom Tierney, "Special Beauty: 2011", 2012 • Western Art Collector, Michelle Brogwardt, "Visions from France and Spain", December 2011 • Plein Air, "Recharging the Engine that Drives Success", Summer 2011 • Persimmon Hill, Lynda Haller, "Curt Walters-At Home in Red Rock Country", Autumn 2011 • Southwest Art, Cristin Hoerth, "40 Prominent People in the Western Art World", May 2011 • Persimmon Hill, Don Reeves, "Getting an Education at the Cowboy", Winter 2011 • Art of the West, "The Love Affair Continues", Jul/Aug 2011, "One on One", Nov/Dec 2011 • Nelson, Mary. "The Studio" Art of the West Sept/Oct 2010, 32-34. • Workshop, "Curt Walters: Prepair to Paint a Complicated Subject", Winter 2009 • Western Art Collector, Jeff Donaldson, "Picturing a National Treasure", August 2009 • Southwest Art, Dussie Fauntleroy, "Limitless Possibilities", February 2008 • Western Art Collector, James H. Nottage, "Moments and Monuments: The Plein Air and Studio Paintings of Curt Walters, September, 2009 • Wildlife Art, Myrna Zanetell, "Curt Walters: Master of the Grand Canyon", Sept/Oct 2007 • Art of the West, Allen Duerr and Thomas Tierney, "Eight True Masters", Nov/Dec 2007 • Art-Talk, Rycke Foreman, "Curt Walters: Patient Prize Winner", June/July 2007 • Persimmon Hill, M.J. Van Deventer, "Curt Walters Wins the Prix de West Purchase Award" Summer 2007 • Southwest Art, Wolf Schneider, "My World: A Visit with Painter Curt Walters" October 2005 • Sedona Magazine, John Reid, "Plein Aire Painting: A New Buzz About an Old Tradition", Fall 2005 • Southwest Art, Lynn Pyne Davis, "Arizona Regionalist", September 2002 • The Artists Magazine, Lorraine Crouch, "Roping the West", November 2001 • Art of the West, "The Grand Adventure", Nov/Dec 2000 • American Artist, Kathleen Bryant, "Into the Heart of thhe Grand Canyon", 2000 • Art of the West, Shirley Behrens, "Glory of the Past, Beauty of the Present", April 1999 • American Artist, "On tour in Normandy", April 1998 • American Artist, Stephen Doherty, "Interpretations of the Colorado Landscape", January 1997 • Art of the West, Vicki Stavig, “The Glory of the American West” Nov/Dec 1997 • Southwest Art, James Jr. Bishop,“Curt Walters”, February 1997 • Phoenix Magazine, “Captured in the Colors”, June 1995 • Sedona Magazine, Hoyt Johnson, “Dear Readers”, Summer 1994 • American Artist, “Techniques of Impressionist Landscape Painting”, December 1991 • Phoenix Home and Garden, Nora Burba Trulsson, "Fine Art: Landscape Artist Curt Walters at Home", July 1992 • International Fine Art Collector, Senta Regis Pollard, "Curt Walters Four Seasons of Expressions", Dec/Jan 1992 • Focus Santa Fe, Nancy Ellis, "Like No Other Place on Earth" Jan-March 1990 • Art of the West, "Curt Walters: The Third Dimension”, May/June 1988 • Sedona Magazine, Sylvia Ruland, A New Freedom", Winter 1988 • Southwest Art, Budge Ruffner, "Curt Walters: The Immortal Dignity of Massive Stone", April 1982 • American Artist, Mary Carrol Nelson, “Curt Walters: Landscapes in the Realist Tradition” , June 1980 Selected Publications • Fresco Fine Art Publications, LLC, Jean Stern, Susan Hallesten and Terry Lawson Dunn, Art of the National Parks, Albuquerque, NM, 2013 • North Light Books, Kathryn Ed Kipp, Art Journey America Landscapes, Cincinnati, OH, 2012 • Leanin' Tree Inc. Don Hedgpeth, Art and Enterprise in the American West, Boulder, CO, 2008 • San Diego Flora, James Lightner, Land of Sunlight: Contemporary Paintings of San Diego County, San Diego, CA, 2007 • Cinnamon Stone Publishing, Dottie Webster and Pamela Morris, A Window on Sedona, Sedons, AZ, 2000 • First Glance Books, Joni Kinsey, The Majesty of the Grand Canyon, Cobb, CA, 1998 • Northland Publishing, Donald Hagerty, Leading the West: One Hundred Contemporary Painters, Flagstaff, AZ, 1997 • Abbeville Press, Alan Axelrod, Art of the Golden West, New York City, NY, 1990 • Southwest Art Publishing, Peggy and Harold Samuels, Contemporary Western Artists, 1982 • Christine Mollring, Erivan and Helga Haub Family Collection of Western Art Awards • National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Frederick Remington Award, 2004, 2005, 2013 • National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Nona Jean Hulsey Buyer's Choice Award, 2007, 2011, 2013 • Eiteljorg Museum, Henry Farny Award, 2010, 2012 • Eiteljorg Museum, Patron's Choice Award, 2012 • Phoenix Art Museum, Best Oil Painting, 2011 • Phoenix Art Museum, Kieckhefer Best of Show Award, 2011 • Salmagundi Club, Patron's Choice Award, 2010 • Autry Museum of Western Heritage, James R. Parks Trustee's Purchase Award, 2008 • Eiteljorg Museum, Artist of Distinction Award, 2008 • Eiteljorg Museum, Victor Higgins Woork of Distinction Award, 2007 • Eiteljorg Museum, Buyer's Choice Award, 1998, 2002, 2007 • Prix de West, Prix de West Purchase Award, 2007 • Eiteljorg Museum, Best Overall Presentation Award, 2006 • National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Persimmon Hill Associates Purchase Award, 2006 • Grand Canyon Trust, Chosen to Paint Powell Award, 2003 • Masters of the American West, Patron's Choice Award, 1999 • Artists of Amerca, Patron's Choice Award, 1999 • Private Scholarship, John F. & Anna Lee Stacey Scholarship Award, 1977 Private & Public Collections • Western Desert Caballeros Museum, Wickenburg, Arizona • Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, Georgia • Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma • National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma • Pierce Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas • Erivan and Helga Haub • Forbes Magazine Galleries, New York and Burlingame, California • Grand Canyon National Park • Kathie Lee Gifford • Frank Borman • Kareem Abdul Jabbar • New Mexico State University, Farmington, New Mexico • Leaning Tree Museum, Boulder, Colorado • Citizen’s Bank, Farmington, New Mexico • The Maytag Foundation