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 M. W. Skip Whitcomb is an artist with varied interests
and proficiency in several media. An accomplished plein air painter,
draftsman and printmaker, he studied at the Art Center College of Design in Los
Angeles, where he received thorough training in drawing and painting.
Whitcomb believes that "Drawing is the soul of painting."
He carries a sketchbook with him everywhere he goes. Painting
studies on the spot. Whitcomb heads to his studio for the finished
works. Raised on a ranch near Sterling, Colorado Whitcomb spent his
summers Wyoming and the wide open spaces felt like home to him. A large
part of his year is spent traveling throughout the West, but he is also
rejuvenated by seeing and painting new places in the world. Whitcomb is
recognized by his peers as an "artist's artist" and looks to the
classics in art and literature for inspiration.
He
lives in Fort Collins, Colorado and has participated in several gallery
invitational shows and museums exhibitions around the country including National
Academy, New York; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma; National Academy of
Western Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody,
Wyoming; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado; the
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming; and the Bradford Brinton
Museum in Big Horn, Wyoming. In Cody, the artist's work is represented by
Simpson Gallagher Gallery and Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is listed in
Who's Who in American Art.
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