June 2012 Exhibition
Dwayne Harty (Y2Y) - Opening reception Saturday, June 16 - 2-4 pm
artist in attendance
Our gallery is in partnership with
the Yellowstone to Yukon Initiative,
the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
and Parks Canada
to support the promotion of conservation and science through artOur gallery exhibition is in conjunction with the Travelling Exhibition
Yellowstone to Yukon - The Journey of Wildlife and Art
at the
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
And in the fall:
November 3, 2012 - Saturday
Gallery Talk and Book Signing
with Dwayne Harty and Harvey Locke (Y2Y)
presented in partnership with the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival
Dwayne Harty
Art Students league, New York (1977-1978). Classes with Steven Kidd, David Leffel, Thomas Fogarty Jr., Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle.
Met Dean of American animal artists Paul Bransom. New York City. (1977-1978).
Studies with American western and wildlife artist, Robert Lougheed, Santa Fe, New Mexico (1975-1982).
Okanagan Summer School of the Arts, wildlife drawing classes, Clarence Tillenius, instructor, July-October (1975-1982).
Attended Bob Kuhn Workshop, Jackson Hole, Wyoming (1984).
Worked with the following artists: Tom Lovell, John Clymer, George McLean, Paul Strisik, Wilson Hurley, Wayne Wolfe, and Jan Sharkey Thomas.
Mentors: Ruth Billard and Ralph Morrill, Peabody Museum, Yale Campus. New Haven, Connecticut. Studies pertaining to museum diorama methodology based on journals and techniques developed by master diorama artist, James Perry Wilson (understudy to William R. Leigh at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City)-1987.
Select Exhibitions
“Yellowstone to Yukon: The Journey of Wildlife and Art” National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming 2011 and Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies 2012.
"Artists for Open Spaces". Montana Land Reliance exhibition and sale, Kalispell, Montana, 2005.
"Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale", Buffalo Bill Historical Center/Whitney Gallery, Cody, Wyoming, 2004.
"Prix de West" exhibition, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2003.
"Masters of the American West" exhibition, Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, California, 2003-4.
"Contemporary Wildlife Artists", One of twelve North American wildlife artists featured in conjunction with Call of the Wild- Carl Rungius retrospective, McMicheal Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, 2002.
"Western Visions Miniature Exhibition, " National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming, 1999 – 2004.
Select Awards
THE LEONARD J. MEISELMAN AWARD, Society of Animal Artists 35th Annual Exhibition for painting titled "Algonquin Wolves," Ottawa, 1995.
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR and AWARD OF MERIT 1994, Nature works exhibition, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1994.
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE. Society of Animal Artists, New York.
Member: Salmagundi Club, New York City, since 1992.
Member: Society of Animal Artists, New York, since 1980.