Steve Knotts

Pistol, Painting, Oil on Other

2016

Replica oil painting of old Pendelton rodeo poster. Always loved the image. Painted by Steven Knotts in Round Rock, Texas in March, 2024 :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece co...

Stationary Brahma bull in Texas field, oil on canvas board :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready...

Small alley nightclub :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Signat...

Original landscape oil on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes...

Original painting signed by the Artist on the lower left.

Original painting signed by the Artist on the lower right.

Original painting signed by the Artist on the lower left.

Biography Creating paintings inspired by western movies and by Remington and Russell, he is a native of the West, having been born and raised in rural Colorado. He studied art at Baylor University in Waco, Texas; at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, and at the University of Colorado, Boulder where he earned a Master's Degree in 1979. For two decades he worked as curator at the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana, before leaving in 1999 to begin work as a full-time painter and independent curator. His work is in the collections of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming; the Art Museum of Missoula; and the Yellowstone Art Museum; the Federal Reserve Bank in Helena, Montana; and the Deaconness Medical Center in Billings, Montana. Artist Statement For a long time, the images in my paintings have been identifiably, even iconically, western-stagecoaches and false-front main streets, poker games and gun battles, cowboys, Indians, cavalry troopers and horses, all suspended in a choreographed matrix of dancing paint. Distinct from the traditional western genre-which inventories the minutia of cowboy gear...