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A MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING MEMBER of the Cowboy Artists of America, artist Mikel Donahue is best known for his impeccable depictions of cowboy life. His drawings and paintings portray ranchers and their livestock during the day-to-day ritual of sun-up to sun-down work...

Michael Dudash Born 1952 in Mankato, Minnesota; lives in Rathdrum, Idaho BORN AND RAISED IN MINNESOTA, C. Michael Dudash settled in the Green Mountains of Vermont, where he began his full-time career as an artist and oil painter in 1977. Trained in the fine arts, his...

Barry Eisenach Born 1952 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska; lives in Arvada, Colorado AFTER TWENTY-THREE YEARS as an illustrator and graphic designer, Barry Eisenach made the decision to pursue a career in figurative painting and sculpture. A native of the West, he endeav­ors...

BORN IN MEDINA, MINNESOTA, and raised in Bozeman, Montana, Smith has spent twenty-seven years surrounded by the incredible wonders of Western wildlife and has worked to master the art of its accurate rendering. Smith studies nature with the acute eyes of a scientist,...

GERMAN-BORN HOLLEBEKE, a professional artist since 1972, currently lives, paints, and ranches in Utah.  Hollebeke first became interested in art while in her teens, and consequently studied fine art and art history, sculpture, illustration and design. After the family...

Greg Kelsey Born 1971, in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma; lives in Ignacio, Colorado AN HONEST LOOK at Greg Kelsey’s sculpture reveals his intensity for both form and subject. No matter the subject, it is his belief that form is the most significant thing about a sculpture....

“WHAT I DESIRE FOR THE ART I CREATE, “says Curt Mattson, “is a piece that is compelling and artistically challenging, one that will grab viewers’ attention and not let them go.” That Mattson succeeds is due in part to a lifetime of involvement with one of his favorite...

JOSEPH MCGURL IS ONE OF AMERICA’S most prominent contemporary landscape painters. He graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art and studied in London and Florence.  He has had retrospective shows at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, The Cahoon Museum of American Art,...

AT THE AGE OF FOUR, Krystii Melaine announced that she was going to be an artist. At seven she won her first art competition, and she was taking commissions for paintings by the age of fourteen. Following studies in painting, drawing, photography, and graphic design,...