DEAN L. MITCHELL IS HIGHLY PROFICIENT in watercolors, egg tempera, oils, and pastels. Over the course of his four-decade career, he has gained national recognition for his powerful figurative works, evocative landscapes, and intimate still lifes. At just twenty-three, he became the youngest artist ever accepted into the National Watercolor Society, and five years later, he was inducted into the American Watercolor Society.
Mitchell has received numerous gold medals from these and other prestigious art organizations around the world. His accolades now exceed hundreds of awards, and his work is represented in prominent museum, corporate, and private collections throughout the United States. The New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman has praised him as a “modern-day Vermeer.”
Selected Publications
The New York Times
Christian Science Monitor
Southwest Art
Art of the West
American Artist
Western Art Collector
Artists Magazine
Fine Art International
Art News
The Art of Watercolor Magazine
Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine
The Outwin American Portraiture Today
National Portrait Gallery
Financial Times
Forbes
PBS Series “The Living Canvas.”
Notable Awards and Recognitions
Dean has won over 800 awards, including the T. H. Saunders International Artists in watercolor competition in London, England; American Watercolor Society International Exhibition Gold and Silver Medals; National Watercolor Society Masters Award; Allied Artist of American Gold Medal in Watercolor and Oil; Donald Teague Memorial Award and the Robert M. Lougheed Memorial Award Prix de West; Best in Show 42nd International San Diego Watercolor Society; Premier Platinum Award Buffalo Bill Center of the West; Art for the Parks $50,000 Grand Prize; Florida Watercolor Society Best in Show; Susan Lattner Lloyd Gold Award, Loa Ruth Spring Award from the National Watercolor Society; The Award of Excellence Shanghai Zhujiajiao International Watercolour Biennial Exhibition; Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Award; Whitney Museum of the West Award Purchase Prize; Transparent Watercolor Society of America, Skyledge Award; Butler Institute of American Art Purchase Award for an American Artist.
Represented in the following collections
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas
The Autry National Center, Los Angeles
The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Gadsden Art Center Quincy, Florida
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
American Jazz Museum, Kansas City, Missouri
The Margaret Harwell Art Museum, Popular Bluff, Missouri
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Hubbard Museum of the American West, Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama
Quanhua Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana
The University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford, Mississippi
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Museum of Arts and Lights, Manhattan, Kansas
Gallery Representation
Astoria Fine Art, Jackson, Wyoming
Cutter & Cutter Fine Art, St. Augustine, Florida
E & S Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
Hearne Fine Art, Little Rock, Arkansas
Marie Brooks Gallery, Quincy, Florida
The Broadmoor Galleries, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Jillian Mac Fine Art, New Orleans, Louisiana