Curt Walters has a long history with Prix de West, winning the Jackie L. Coles Buyers’ Choice Award for his Grand Canyon painting A Chasm Sublime: Plateau Point in 2019. Previously, Walters received the Buyers’ Choice Award in 1998, 2002, 2007, 2011, 2013 and 2017 and the Frederic Remington Award in 2004, 2005 and 2013. He was honored with two wins in 2007 — the Buyers’ Choice Award for Ra’s Domain and the Purchase Award for Spring’s Caprice, the only time in Prix de West history that an artist has won two awards for different paintings in the same show.

Walters was the subject of a documentary short, Painting the Air, that premiered at the Sedona International Film Festival in February 2019 during the festival’s 25th anniversary celebration. The film was created by Miranda Foreman, Walters’ daughter, and Rainmaker Productions. The 20-minute film is narrated by Walters himself and is an intimate view of the personal, emotional content behind his art. The documentary was well-received and was the sixth most popular in the short documentary category during the run of the festival (out of 26 short documentaries). A 28-minute edit of the film is currently available on Plein Air Magazine’s online video channel.

“King of the Canyon“ is a title recently used (Art of the West, Mar/Apr 2017) to define Walters’ lifelong obsession with his favorite subject, the Grand Canyon. Previously, Walters was included as one of “Forty Prominent People in the Western Art World” (Southwest Art, 2011) while Art of the West was the first to herald him as the “Greatest Living Grand Canyon Artist” in 1997, and one of “Eight True Masters” in 2007. Walters has spent a good part of the last year being interviewed and reviewing the manuscript for the upcoming book Resilience: The Life History and Grand Canyon Art of Curt Walters.