Curriculum Vitae

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