The Artist
Pat Kuper started
painting in 1996 as mainly a self taught artist. She works in pastel,
colored pencil and oil. The Pastel Society of America has
recognized Pat as a Signature member in March 2007.
Pat's passion is
painting Native Americans, old Western buildings and wagons, as well
as wildlife and landscapes. As a professional artist, she began,
and continues to do, commissions of people's pets.
She won Best of Show
in 1999 in the Salmon River Art Show with a pastel Painting of Grey
Owl Woman of the Blackfeet Tribe. Her next Best of Show award was for
the pastel painting of Red Elk, a Lakota Sioux warrior, at the Cody
Country Art League's annual art show, Cody, Wyoming. Pat's
colored pencil painting Wood Ducks won second place at the same show.
In
2009 Pat's painting Great Grey Owl won 2nd in the Wyoming Artists
Association's Show. Her Wyoming Big Horn Rams painting was
selected to be hung in the Governor's Office 2009-2010.
Pat
Kuper is currently represented in the Cody, Wyoming at the Fine Art
Gallery and the Cody Country Art League, plus the Carbon County Art
Guild in Red Lodge, Montana. She is a member of the Cody
Country Art League, Pastel Society of America, Pastel Society of the
Northern Rockies and New Mexico Pastel Society.
Examples of Her Art
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