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Claude Painting

Born: Texas : Raised in Kansas/Oklahoma
Summer Art Scholarship, Wichita State Univ., Kansas 1956
High School : Oklahoma '57-'61 : Art - Mechanical Drafting
University of Houston '61-'63 : Fine Art : Architecture
United States Air Force '63-67 : Radar Electronics Technican
Layton School of Art and Design '67-'69 : Graphic Design : Illustration

Home : Northern Arizona Land of the Ancients


Art Shows & Awards


1960: Sold first Pencil/Graphite Drawing
1961: First Commission: Oil Painting
1969 -1971: Graphic Design/Production Artist : Member: Professional Advertising Artists Assocation, Dallas, Texas
1971-1975: Freelance Graphic Design/Production Artist: Sign Painter:
Transistion from Graphic Artist : Painting and Drawing Northern Arizona. Subjects: Landscapes, Old Historic Buildings, Hopi Villages, Grand Canyon.


1975:
  • Dimensions '75 - Glendale Community College, Glendale, Arizona. Pencil/Graphite Drawing.
  • El Valle Purchase Award Show - Jerome, Arizona
  • First Annual Jerome Theme Show - Jerome, Arizona : Award: 2nd Acryilic Painting
  • One Artist Show: Verde Valley Artists Gallery, Jerome, Arizona
  • ommission: George F. Hoke, President, Williams Chamber of Commerce: 'Ole Bill' Williams, Williams, Arizona City Logo. Still in use today (2009)

1976: One Artist Show : Williams Arizona Motor Vechicle Deptartment Lobby.

1977:

  • Verde Valley Artists Annual Membership Show : Verde Valley Artist's Gallery, Jerome, Arizona : Award: 2nd Acrylic Painting-'Metamorphosis'.
  • Coconino County Fair - Flagstaff, Arizona. Award: 3rd Acrylic Painting

1978:

  • Member (Juried): Professional Artists of Northern Arizona
  • One Artist Show: Flagstaff Art Barn - Flagstaff, Arizona.
  • Mid-Summer Art Festival, Flagstaff Art Barn - Flagstaff, Arizona,.1st Award: Ink Ilustration.
  • Coconino County Fair - Flagstaff, Arizona. Award: 1st Drawing & 2nd Award: Ink Illustration.

1979:

  • Studio One, Williams, Arizona: Award: 1st Drawing.
  • Coconino County Fair - Flagstaff, Arizona. Award: Best of Show: Drawing.
  • Coconino County Fair - Flagstaff, Arizona. Mixed Media Illustration: Purchase Award: Valley National Bank of Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona.
1980
  • Arizona State Fair - Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Coconino County Fair - Flagstaff, Arizona. Awards: 1st Drawing & 3rd Acrylic Painting
  • Flagstaff Summer Arts Festival, Flagstaff, Arizona.
  • Coconino County Fair - Flagstaff, Arizona. Awards: 1st Drawing & 3rd Acryilic painting.
  • One Artist Show - WBS Corporation, Los Angeles, California.
  • Two Artist Private Show with Drake Seaman courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Long, Scottsdale, Arizona.

1981:

  • Pima County Fair - Tucson, Arizona. Award: Honorable Mention: Mixed Media Illustration
  • Coconino County Fair - Flagstaff, Arizona. Award: 1st Mixed Media Illustration

1982: Sedona Arts Council Annual Show - Sedona, Arizona. Award: Honorable Mention: Acrylic painting.

1983: No Shows:
Commission : Charles & Glynna Shawbell-Hays: Old Hays Farm, Wynnewood, Oklahoma: Airbrush/Graphite Illustration.

1984: No Shows:
Commission : Arizona Raft Adventures, Flagstaff, Arizona: T-Shirt Graphic Design/Logo.

1985:

  • Coconino County Fair - Flagstaff, Arizona. Awards: 1st Ink Illustration, 1st Mixed Media, 1st Graphic Design and Honorable Mention: Acrylic painting.
  • One Artist Show - The Office Gallery, Bisbee, Arizona
  • Commission: 'Heck Marley-Cowboy' : Marley Family Decendents: Oil Painting

1987:

  • I-40 Expo - Winslow, Arizona. Award: 1st Oil painting.
  • Coconino County Fair - Flagstaff, Arizona. Award: Best of Show: Oil painting


1988: Coconino County Fair - Flagstaff, Arizona. Awards: Best of Show:Oil painting, 1st Mixed Media, 3rd Drawing.

1989: Coconino County Fair - Flagstaff, Arizona. Awards: 1st Oil painting, 3rd Drawing, 3rd Mixed Media.

1991: Coconino County Fair - Flagstaff, Arizona. Awards: 1st Mixed Media

1992 - 2005 : I completed a few artworks in this time frame while employed at a variety of jobs raising kids as a single Dad.

2005: Retirement. Started to work on art full time again.

2009: 140 Twitter Art Show : Grandon Gallery, Flagstaff, Arizona.

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