Michael Coleman Bio

Michael Coleman was born and raised in Provo, Utah and spent his boyhood hunting, fishing and trapping throughout the Rocky Mountains. Early on, he decided on a career in art, studying at Brigham Young Univerisity. His paintings are rich in detail and muted in tone, true to the remote landscapes he chooses to illustrate. The Indian encampments, wildlife and hunting subjects portrayed against these magnificent areas are rendered in such a way as to give the viewer a sense of gazing on the past.
Coleman loves best the dusky, grey, misty, muted tones of fall and early winter. His paintings evoke the early 19th century masters of the Hudson River School, artists whom he credits with deeply influencing his art. The mood he captures is that to which all painters of the mystique and power of the tradition and lore of the West aspire.

Michael Coleman
Born: June 25, 1946, Provo, Utah
Education: Brigham Young University

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, HONORS, AND AWARDS:

1999 Prix de West Award, National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (link)
1996 One-man show, National Hunting Museum, Munich, Germany
1993 National Academy of Western Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Gold Medal Award (Watercolor)
1992 National Academy of Western Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Silver Medal Award (Oil)
1992 International Wildlife Exposition, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1992 Hubbard Award for Excellence
1992 International Exhibition of Wildlife and Natural History
1991 Hubbard Award for Excellence
1989 One-man show, J.N. Bartfield Gallery, New York
1988 One-man show, J.N. Bartfield Gallery, New York
1986 One-man show, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1985 One-man show, Wunderlich & Co., New York
1985 One-man show, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1984 Museum of Western Art, Denver
1984 One-man show, Wunderlich & Co., New York
1983 Mongerson Gallery, Chicago
1983 Charlie Russell Museum, Great Falls, Montana
1981 Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, California
1979 Gold & Silver Medal, Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1979 One-man show, Kennedy Galleries, New York
1977 One-man show, Kennedy Galleries, New York
1977 One-man show, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming
1976 One-man show, Kennedy Galleries, New York

PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

NuSkin International, Provo, Utah
Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Texas Commerce Bank, Houston
The White House, Washington, D.C.
Anschutz Collection, Denver
Corning Museum, New York
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming
Charlie Russell Museum, Great Falls, Montana
William Middendorf, Washington, D.C.
Mack Pogue, Dallas
Sports Afield Magazine, New York
Burt Reynolds, Los Angeles
Hal Wallace, Los Angeles
Clint Eastwood, Carmel
Los Angeles Athletic Club, Los Angeles
Steven L. Rose, Los Angeles
Stan Kamen, Los Angeles
National Wildlife Art Museum, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Bill Kerr, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Ian Cumming, Leucadia Corporation, Salt Lake City
John Huntsman, Huntsman Chemical Company, Salt Lake City
Canadian Embassy
Leaning Tree Museum, Colorado
Long Grass Prairie Preserve, Oklahoma
Cal Poly University, San Luis Obispo, California

COMMISSIONS:

1995 National Wildlife Art Museum, Jackson, Wyoming
1985 Boone and Crockett Club, Brown Bear Conservation Stamp
1986 Alaskan Professional Hunters Association, Grizzly Stamp
1987 Alaskan Professional Hunters Association
Hyatt Regency, Aspen, Colorado
Leaning Tree Museum, Colorado

FILMS:

The Romantic Western Landscape of Michael Coleman, Ian Mandan producer

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2003 New Horizons, Michael Coleman Pushes His Envelope, by Rebecca H. Rowland, Wildlife Art, March/April
1998 Artists to Watch in '99, U.S. Art, December
1996 Salt Lake City, November/December
1995 Southwest Art, Commemorative Edition "Covering The West: The Best of Southwest Art," July
1992 Art of the West, March/April
1992 Salt Lake City, January
1990 WildLife Art, November/December
1990 Top Ten Investments For the 90's, USA Today
1988 Sporting Classics, May/June
1987 Southwest Art, November
1987 Sports Afield, October
1985 Grays Sporting Journal, Summer
1984 American Way, May
1984 Sports Afield, July
1984 Southwest Art, January - Cover
1983 Sports Afield, April
1978 Rocky Mountain Magazine
1977 Southwest Art, February
1976 Ten American Landscape Artists and How They Work, edited by Susan Meyer, published by Watson Guptill
1975 American Artist, January
Western Art

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