Curt Walters, one of the West's foremost landscape artists, grew up in La Plata Valley, near Farmington, New Mexico. He started painting at the age of 15 and never stopped. Painting has been his only vocation.
Walters is distinguished for his plein aire paintings of Western sites, as well as studio oils derived from color studies made at the site. Painting on location allows me to express my true emotions freely and to render nature at its fullest, just as the French Impressionists did, said Walters in an article in American Artist. Painting outdoors, direct from nature, has become an obssession.
