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Gregory McHuron
SAA, AFC, RMPAP, WAA
 Landscape and Wildlife in Oil and Watercolor |
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I am a plein air painter working in oil and watercolor/gouache. Born in Syracuse, New York, I was raised in Colorado, Wyoming, Alaska and California. I always wanted to be an artist and began sketching at an early age.
My education included 4 years of extensive high school training by a teacher who graduated from the Berlin Art Academy. I attended Oregon State University and took classes in forestry and fisheries and wildlife and graduated in 1968 with a Bachelor's Degree in Art. After graduating, I worked as a designer and Art Director of an interior design firm before moving to Jackson, Wyoming.
Introduced to plein air painting in oil in 1973 by Conrad "Connie" Schwiering, I quickly found that I enjoyed painting the rapidly changing scenes. It allowed me to put in my paintings the feelings and excitement that I felt while watching the scene unfold which created more drama and excitement than I would have been able to do in a studio enviornment. I have traveled widely including to Selby Lake (above the arctic circle), AK; southeast AK; wilderness trips in the Thoroughfare and Wind River Range, WY; Colorado Rockies; Banff and Jasper National Parks, Canada; the coast of British Columbia, Canada; Alert Bay and Vancouver Island, Canada; Haida Gwaii, Canada; and down the Grand Canyon, AZ.
I am a member of the Society of Animal Artists since 1979; signature member of the Rocky Mountain Plein-Air Painters; Artists for Conservation; and Western Artists of America. I have taught many workshops throughout the inter-mountain west including for the Scottsdale School of the Arts in 2001.
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Special Achievements:
- Special Achievements
-2011 Artist Choice Award, Rocky Mountian Plein Air Painter Show, Pagosa Springs, CO -2011 Silver for watercolor, Western Artists of America Show, Corsicana, TX -2009 Trustee's Purchase Award, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY -2006, One of the Artist Choice Awards, Wild Wild West Show, Scottsdale, AZ -2005 Artist Choice Award, Plein Air 2005 Show, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ -2008 and 2003 Colonel Richard H. "Red" Smith Award, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY -2002 Artist's Choice Award, Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, Vermont -2002 Wildlife Award, Wind River Valley Show, Dubois, WY -1999 Wyoming Artist Association - Artist of the Year -1999, Artist-in-Residence at Glacier National Park for July -July,1995 and August, 1994 Artist-in-Residence at Isle Royale National Park -1991 U. S. Representative to the Leighton foundation artist retreat, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -
- Major Shows
-Western Artists of America, Pearce Museum, Corsicana, TX -Oil Painters of America Shows -"Wildlife Art for a New Century II", National Museum of Wildlife Art, 2005, Jackson, WY -"Wildlife Art for a New Century", National Museum of Wildlife Art, 2000, Jackson, WY (A show for 47 internationally acclaimed wildlife artists) -CM Russell Show and Auction, 1979-1998, Great Falls, MT -Miniature Show, National Musum of Wildlife Art, 1987 to present, Jackson, WY -Art and the Animal Kingdom Shows, Bennngton Center for the Fine Arts, Bennington, VT -Society of Animal Artists National Shows -1986 Wild Wings Gallery, San Francisco, CA (one man show) -North American Wild Animal Art Exhibition sponsored by the Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, OK -National shows with the Nature Conservancy -National Shows with Ducks Unlimited -Arts for the Parks competition. Top 100 and Top 200, the latest being in 2000
Collections:
- Collections
Many public and private collections including: -13 piece mural at the Jackson Hole & Greater Yellowstone Visitor Center, Jackson, WY -Ella Carothers Dunnegan Museum, Bolivar MO -National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY -Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT -Grand Teton National Park, Moose, Wy -Leighton Foundation, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -Isle Royale Natural History Association, Houghton, MI -J. C. Penny, Dallas, TX -Lost Creek Ranch, Jackson, WY -Cardiac Care Unit, Great Falls, MT -MAG Collection, Atlanta, GA -Holland and Hart, Denver, CO
Publications:
- Articles
- -Art of the West Magazine, July/August 1996 -Southwest Art Magazine, November 1990 -Southwest Art Magazine, March 1988 -Wildlife Art News, September/October 1986
- Listed in:
- -Contemporary Western Artists by Harold and Peggy Samuels -How to Feed a Starving Artist by Miriam Ross Wolf -Gray's Sporting Journal, May/June 2000 (cover) -The Island Within Us by Isle Royale National History Association -Video "Crown Jewls of the Rocky Mountains" by Joe T. and Mary Liz Adair -Cowboys & Indians, November 2001 -American Cowboy, November/December, 2001 -Images West, 2001 -"One Day at Teton Marsh", Sally Carrighar (cover)
Organization Membership:
-Society of Animal Artists since 1979 -Rocky Mountain Plein-Air Painters -Artists for Conservaton -Western Artists of America
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