Honors and Awards
1969, Distinguished Flying Cross, The Distinguished Flying Cross Society by direction of the President of the United States
1973, National Academy of Western Art (NAWA) silver medal/oils for Grand Canyon, First Light, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum (NCWHM), Oklahoma City, OK
1977, NAWA gold medal/oils for Winter Sunset, de Chelly
1977, NCWHM Trustees Medal
1978, NAWA gold medal/oils for Moran Point, Grand Canyon
1980, NAWA silver medal/oils for Bathed in a Fiery Sunset
1982, Artist of the Year, Tucson Festival Society, AZ
1984, Prix de West purchase award and NAWA gold medal/oils for Los Alamos Country
1989, Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, University of New England, Biddeford, ME
1990, Memorial Lecture, J. Robert Oppenheimer Committee, Los Alamos, NM
1991, Award of Excellence in Western Art, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN
1995, Oklahoma Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City
2001, Tulsa Hall of Fame, OK
2002, Notable New Mexican, Albuquerque Museum Foundation, NM
2002, Oklahoma Cultural Treasure, Oklahoma Arts Council, OK
2004, Honored Artist, Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale, Cody, WY
2005, Westheimer Distinguished Visiting Artist, University of Oklahoma, Norman
2008, Featured Artist, Santa Fe Wine and Chile Festival, NM
2015, Windows to the West orchestral suite composed by Edward Knight in honor of Hurley’s Windows to the West triptychs, Oklahoma City
2017, NCWHM establishes the Wilson Hurley Memorial Award for Outstanding Landscape at annual Prix de West
Solo Exhibitions
1971, Panhandle Plains Museum, Canyon, TX
1976, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff
1977, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
1983, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
1985, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY
1985, Albuquerque Museum, NM
1986, Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY
1988, Altermann & Morris Galleries, Dallas, TX
1991, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN
2001, Las Cruces Museum of Fine Art, NM
2004, Nedra Matteucci Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
2005, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK
Two-Person Exhibitions
1980, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, with Ed Fraughton
1989, Nedra Matteucci Galleries, Santa Fe, NM, with Glenna Goodacre
2001, Morrison Museum of Art, Augusta, GA, with George Carlson
2008, Nedra Matteucci Galleries, Santa Fe, NM, with Rosalyn Roembke Hurley
Museum Collections
Albuquerque Museum, NM
Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO
Denver Art Museum, CO
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
National Museum of the US Air Force, Dayton, OH
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, TX
Phoenix Art Museum, AZ
Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY
University Museum of Art, Lubbock, TX
Whitney Western Art Museum, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, WY
Film and DVD
1979, Wilson Hurley, Art Infinitum
1981, Profiles in American Art: Wilson Hurley, Ken Meyer Productions
1995, Bettina Steinke and Wilson Hurley, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
2011, Wilson Hurley: Envisioning the West, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
Memberships
1973-92, National Academy of Western Art, NCWHM, Oklahoma City, OK
1990-2007, American Society of Aviation Artists
Books and Catalogs
A Centennial Celebration of Art in Lubbock by Dawn Wolf Taylor, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX, 2008
A New Mexico Tradition: Southwestern Realism by Michael Duty, et. al., Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 1990
A Western Legacy: The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum by Charles P. Schroeder, et. al., University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2005
Artists of America, Rotary Club of Denver, Colorado History Museum, Denver, 1981-93, 1997-2000
Brushstrokes on the Plateau: An Overview of Anglo Art on the Colorado Plateau by Katherin L. Chase, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, 1984
Canyon de Chelly: 100 Years of Painting and Photography by Donald J. Hagerty, Gibbs Smith, Layton, UT, 1996
Capturing the Canyon: Artists in the Grand Canyon by Holly Mitchem, Mesa Southwest Museum, AZ, 1987
Contemporary Realism Collection, Denver Art Museum, CO, 2006
Contemporary Western Artists by Peggy and Harold Samuels, Southwest Art Publishing, Houston, TX, 1982
Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America’s First National Park by Peter H. Hassrick, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2002
From Sea to Shining Sea: A Reflection of America by John Stern, et. al., Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA, 2004
Frontier Spirit: William Foxley Museum of Western Art, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1985
Landscapes of New Mexico: Paintings of the Land of Enchantment by Suzan Campbell and Suzanne Deats, Fresco Books, Albuquerque, NM, 2006
Leading the West—One Hundred Contemporary Painters and Sculptors by Donald J. Hagerty, Northland Publishing, Flagstaff, AZ, 1997
Masters of Western Art by Mary Carroll Nelson, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, NY, 1982
NASA and the Exploration of Space by Roger Launius, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, New York, NY, 1998
National Academy of Western Art, NCWHM, Oklahoma City, OK, 1973-92
Patrons Without Peer: The McCloy Collection by Tom Davis, Collectors Covey, Dallas, TX, 2009
Prix de West, NCWHM, Oklahoma City, OK, 2001-07
Selections from the Collection of Fred T. Hogan, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 1974
The Chinese Widow, an illustrated novel by Wilson Hurley, booksurge.com, 2007
The Life and Art of Wilson Hurley: Celebrating the Richness of Reality by Rosalyn Roembke Hurley, Fresco Books, Albuquerque, NM, 2020
The Majesty of the Grand Canyon: 150 years in Art by Joni L. Kinsey, First Glance Books, 1998
The West of the Imagination by William H. Goetzmann and William N. Goetzmann, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, NY, 1986
Twelve Contemporary Western Artists: Selections from the Whitney Gallery of Western Art Collection by Deborah Groppert, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, WY, 1978.
Visions of Flight—A Retrospective from the NASA Art Collection by Robert Schulman, National Aeronautics Space Administration, Washington, DC, 1988
Western Painting Today by Royal B. Hassrick, Watson-Guptill, New York, NY, 1975
Whitney Gallery of American Art by Sarah E. Boehme, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, WY, 1998
Wilson Hurley—A Biographical Sketch by Richard S. Hodgson, Franklin Mint, Franklin Center, PA, 1974
Wilson Hurley—A Retrospective by James T. Forrest, et. al., The Lowell Press, Kansas City, MO, in association with Albuquerque Museum and Buffalo Bill Center of the West, 1985
Wilson Hurley—A Written Accompaniment to Profiles in American Art compiled by Claudia Meyer, Ken Meyer Productions, Boulder, CO, 1979
Wilson Hurley—An American Painter by Fred Myers, et. al., Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK, 1983
Wilson Hurley—An Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Wilson Hurley, The Lowell Press, Kansas City, MO, in association with the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, 1977
Wilson Hurley’s Campaign: Painting the Murals for the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum by Andrew Phelan, University of Oklahoma School of Art, Norman, 2005
Without Noise of Arms—The 1776 Dominguez-Escalante Search for a Route from Santa Fe to Monterey by Walter Briggs, oil paintings by Wilson Hurley, Northland Publishing, Flagstaff, AZ, 1976