Jan 1, 2019 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
“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...
Jan 1, 2019 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
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,...
Jan 1, 2019 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
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,...
Jan 1, 2019 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
Denis Milhomme Born 1954 in Lowell, Massachusetts; lives in Three Rivers, California DURING HIS CHILDHOOD in Massachusetts, Milhomme confesses that he began his “courtship” with nature, after “falling prey to the charm of the wilds.” After moving to California, he was...
Jan 1, 2019 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
JAY MOORE GRADUATED in the top of his class at the Colorado Institute of Art in 1984, but his education started long before graduation, and well outside the classroom. Moore took a lifetime spent outdoors and funneled nature’s emotional impact on him down into his...
Jan 1, 2019 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
BRENDA MURPHY IS A TEXAS-BASED ARTIST known for her Western-themed works, deeply rooted in the rich history of the American West. Her love for Western art began when she was five, during a visit to the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, where she was captivated by...
