Curt Walters

Sedona, Arizona artist Curt Walters says it never feels like a new year until he attends the Autry National Center of the American West’s annual Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition and Sale. Last year, Walters’s Grand Canyon piece, Splendid Turmoil, was honored with the James R. Parks Trustees’ Purchase Award, given in recognition of artwork acquired for the Autry National Center’s permanent collection.

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Also in 2008, Walters won the Artist of Distinction Award at the Quest for the West exhibition at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis. This special award comes with a 90-day one-man show, coinciding with the 4th annual Questshow, beginning in September 2009. The show will feature 30 paintings spanning the past 20 years of Walters’s career, including his well-known Southwest and Canadian landscapes, as well as canvases from his trips to Jordan, Bali, and many European cities.

Walters has also received the Purchase Award from the Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition and Sale in Oklahoma City, and many other medals, including six Patrons’/Buyers’ Choice Awards from four different shows.

In 1997, Art of the West proclaimed Walters “The Greatest Living Grand Canyon Artist,” and in 2007 they included him as “One of Eight True Masters.” Recently, Southwest Art wrote that “Walters conquers the Grand Canyon,” and Wildlife Art labeled him “The Master of the Grand Canyon.”

Of course, Walters does much more than just paint Arizona’s National Treasure; since 1998 he has worked with the Grand Canyon Trust and other foundations to raise both money and awareness for the steadily deteriorating state of the environment near the canyon.

Curt Walters has been represented for 30 years by Trailside Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Giclée reproductions of his work are available through Greenwich Workshop dealers.