Claggett/Rey Gallery
“Chaos & Order”
George Carlson
36"×36" | Oil | $64,000
Born in Illinois on July 3, 1940, George Carlson studied at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of Arizona, Tucson.
Recognized as one of America’s greatest sculptors, Carlson is also a master at using pastels and oils. His art has been shown internationally at the Hakone Open-Air Museum, Tokyo, Japan; the Kyoto World Exposition of Historical Cities, Japan; and the Peking Exhibit, Beijing, China. His works are in numerous prominent collections. His work has been exhibited at the Governor’s Invitational, Denver, Colorado; the Denver Museum of Natural History; the Indianapolis Museum of Fine Arts; the National Academy of Design; the Phoenix Art Museum; the Smithsonian Institution; and the Autry Museum. In 1999, Carlson received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degree from the University of Idaho. His work has been featured in Art of the West, Art-Talk, PleinAir, Southwest Art,Sculpture Review, and Wildlife Art magazines.
In 2018 and 2019 Carlson won the Thomas Moran Memorial Award for Painting and the Artists’ Choice Award at the Autry’s Masters of the American West. His other Masters awards include 2017 the Gene Autry Memorial Award in 2017 and 2016; the Masters of the American West Purchase Award and the Ross and Billie McKnight Artists’ Choice Award, in Honor of John J. Geraghty, in 2015; the Booth Western Art Museum Artists’ Choice Award in 2012 and 2009; both the Booth Western Art Museum Artists’ Choice Award and the Masters of the American West Purchase Award in 2010; and he was honored in 2005 with the John J. Geraghty Award in recognition of his advancement of contemporary Western art and his sculpture The Conqueror won the Masters of the American West Purchase Award. At the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Prix de WestInvitational Art Exhibition and Sale, Carlson won the Frederic Remington Painting Award in 2018; the Robert Lougheed Memorial Award in 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, and 2010; and the Prix de West Purchase Award in 2011 and 1975. and in 2016 he won the Red Smith Artists’ Choice Award at the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s Western Visions Miniatures and More Show.
Carlson participated in the American Masters Exhibition & Sale at the Salmagundi Club in 2018, and in 2017 he was one of eight artists showcased in Woolaroc Museum’s The Best of the Best Retrospective Exhibit and Sale.
Claggett/Rey Gallery
Claggett/Rey Gallery
“Desert Spirit”
Randal Dutra
40"×30" | Oil | $26,000
Claggett/Rey Gallery
“Siesta”
Randal Dutra
24"×30" | Oil | $14,800
Randal was born and raised in Castro Valley, California. He does not remember a time when his hand was not involved in art. He has traveled extensively in the Western United States, Canada, Europe, and Africa.
Randal’s formal fine art training as painter and sculptor began while he was a sophomore in high school in 1975; for nine years -- summers and falls -- he attended classes at the Okanagan Game Farm in British Columbia, Canada, under artist Clarence Tillenius. There he drew, painted, and sculpted all forms of animals working directly from life. These were formative years and instilled in him a lifelong love of observing nature.
Upon graduating high school in 1977, it was on to the Art Students League in New York where he studied figure drawing and sculpture under Jose DeCreeft. In 1978 Randal received private instruction in painting from esteemed western impressionist Robert Lougheed, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
From 1979 to 1981, he learned the art of bronze casting with Piero Mussi at Artworks Foundry, Berkeley, California. He later furthered his art studies with Bob Kuhn and George Carlson.
His work is in the permanent collections of the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming and the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin, and many private collections internationally.
Claggett/Rey Gallery
Claggett/Rey Gallery
“While We Slept”
Josh Elliott 36"×39" | Oil | $22,000
Claggett/Rey Gallery
“Frozen Opalescence”
Josh Elliott 46"×49" | Oil | $33,000
Josh Elliott was born in Great Falls, MT in 1973. He was raised to appreciate art and is a third generation artist. His grandfather studied with Grant Wood and dabbled in all sorts of artistic pursuits. His father, wildlife artist Steve Elliott, gave up a successful career as an ER doctor to become a full-time artist. Josh’s father taught and encouraged him. Josh learned the importance of painting from life and discovered his passion for painting outdoors. He sees his outdoor paintings as a reaction to what is in front of him, and feels they act as exercise to sharpen his skills. He considers his studio paintings to be a culmination of everything he has learned from painting out, combined with his own artistic interpretation.
Born in Montana, Josh lived out of state for some time but always felt a deep connection with Montana’s landscape and people. Josh now lives with his wife and two daughters in Helena, Montana.
He participates in many shows including: American Masters at Salmagundi Club in New York City, Maynard Dixon Country, Quest for the West at the Eiteljorg Museum, and Western Rendezvous of Art. Josh won the “Palette Award” at the 2008 Quest for the West show. He was awarded the “Edith Hamlin Award” at Maynard Dixon Country in 2007. Josh had a feature article in Southwest Art’s February 2009 issue and was one of the artists in the magazine’s “20 Success Stories” article, he was also featured in Art of the West’s spotlight on rising stars in the November/ December 2009 issue.
Claggett/Rey Gallery
Claggett/Rey Gallery
“Cottonwoods in Snow”
Quang Ho 24"×30" | Oil | $14,000
Quang Ho was born on April 30, 1963 in Hue, Vietnam. He Immigrated to the United States in 1975 and is now a U.S. Citizen. His artistic interest began at the early age of three and continued through grade school, high school, art school and led him to a very exciting and successful painting profession. In 1980, at the age of 16, Quang held his first one-man-show at Tomorrows Masters Gallery in Denver Colorado. The exhibit was a smashing success for the high school sophomore. In 1982, Quang’s mother was killed in a tragic auto accident, leaving him the responsibility of raising four younger brothers and a six year old sister. That same year, Quang attended the Colorado Institute of Art on a National Scholastics Art Awards Scholarship. At CIA Quang studied painting under Rene Bruhin, whom Quang credits with developing the foundation for his artistic understanding. Ho graduated from CIA in 1985 with Best Portfolio Award for the graduating class. An art dealer, Mikkel Saks, discovered his talent and promoted him in his gallery, which led to much success. He also teaches at the Denver Art Students League. He plays golf and reads philosophy and religion extensively. He is a great admirer of Andrew Wyeth.
Ho’s clients include Adolph Coors Company; Upjohn, Safeway, Colorado Symphony, Chicago Symphony... Ho’s illustration works have been featured in the Illustrators Annual and exhibited at the Museum of American Illustrations; and the Communication Arts Illustrations Annual during those years. Working mostly in oils and occasionally watercolor and pastels, Ho’s subject matter ranges from still-life, landscapes, interiors, and dancers, to figuratives. “Subject matter is not really important to me. I can find visual excitement all around me as well as on the canvas - from a knot on a tree, graceful limp of a flower wilting, to a juxtaposition of a few simple shapes and colors... inspirations are inexhaustible.”
“Realism and abstract-it’s all the same to me. The real essence of painting is the dialogue between shapes, tones, colors, textures, edges, and line. Everything else follows-including light, form, concepts personal beliefs and inspirations. For me, painting is a marriage between the mastery of those ‘basic visual elements’; the discoveries and understanding of visual statements [the search for what is true on a personal level artistically]; and the trust in ones own wordless intuition and inspiration. Understanding gives rise to higher understanding. Working this way allows me to open the door to new ideas and inspirations. One day I may be interested in a color statement, and the next may be a relationship of simple shapes, and the next an extremely complex arrangement of texture and edges...With every painting there is a singular visual thought to be completed.”
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Gallery
“Murder at the Pond”
Paul Moore
29"×50"×10" | Oak, gold & silver leaf, acrylic | $29,000
Claggett/Rey Gallery
“Tradition”
Claggett/Rey Gallery
Paul Moore
39"×27" | Block print on paper, acrylic | $18,000
Paul Moore is an internationally known artist with work in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Massachusetts; Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina; and numerous museum, corporate, municipal and private collections worldwide.
Moore is in constant demand for portrait and monumental commissions, sculpting more than 160 in the past 45 years. For 20 years, he and his two sons have sculpted 45 life-and-a-half elements for the Centennial Land Run Monument in Oklahoma City, which was completed in December 2019.
In 2019, he won the prestigious Prix de West Purchase Award and the Robert Lougheed Memorial Award at the 47th annual Prix de West. In 2020, he received the National Sculpture Society’s highest honor — the Special Medal of Honor — for his contribution to American sculpture. Three years ago, he won an Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for a documentary about him and his career for OETA/PBS and, in 2013, he won the Governor’s Arts Award from the Oklahoma Arts Council.
Moore is a fellow of the National Sculpture Society in New York and an emeritus member of the Cowboy Artists of America (CAA). In his nine years as an active CAA member, he won 16 awards at their annual exhibition; four of them were Best in Show.
Claggett/Rey Gallery
Claggett/Rey Gallery
“Granite Mountain Foothills”
Matt Smith
16"×27" | Oil | $8,400
Claggett/Rey Gallery
“Shadow Creek”
Matt Smith
28"×22" | Oil | $11,000
Matt Smith was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1960. At an early age he moved to Arizona where he developed his life long connection to the Sonoran Desert and the great outdoors. This was a connection that would eventually influence his decision to paint the landscape. As a teenager he also lived two years in France and one year in Switzerland. While in Europe, he had the opportunity to visit many of the great museums which helped solidify his love for art.
In 1985, Smith earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from Arizona State University. Somewhat frustrated with the abstract focus of the program at ASU he began looking to outside sources for inspiration and guidance. These sources included fellow artists, fine galleries and museums. This is where his “real” education began.
These days, Matt can often be found painting en Plein air from southern Arizona to the Canadian Rockies, from the California coast to the Rocky Mountains. “I appreciate traditional landscape painting and I am inspired by the pristine landscapes of the American West. I enjoy working in areas where one can travel for miles without seeing the influence of man. When I paint, I feel I’ve hit the mark when I’ve captured a balance between mood, look and feel.
