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Society of Artists
C. Michael Dudash has produced oil paintings for publishers, galleries, and clients for more than thirty-six years. Dudash has been featured in several art magazines, including Art of the West, Southwest Art, and Western Art Collector. He is represented by prestigious galleries around the country, and in 2012, he published a book on his Western work. His collectors appreciate the draftsmanship, use of light, and colorful atmosphere that Dudash brings to his paintings of the old frontier.
Charles Fritz’s awards from the C.M. Russell Museum shows include four Best of Shows and a People’s Choice in painting. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, the MacNider Museum, the Fort Benton Museum, the Woolaroc, and the C.M. Russell Museum. His nationally known collection, “An Artist with the Corps of Discovery,” has been exhibited at twelve museums across the country and is currently on exhibit at the new Wonders of Wildlife Museum & Aquarium in Springfield, Missouri.
Luke Frazier’s art is a by-product of his life and the travels he’s had while hunting and fishing around the world. Like a good storyteller, he has had to be a keen observer and immerse himself in his surroundings. Frazier received his formal art training at Utah State University, where he earned a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting and a master of fine arts degree in illustration. Frazier says, “My goal as an artist is to offer up a different point of view of the natural world. As a sportsman, I want to tell a gripping story between antagonists, an emotionally charged powerful scene, or a calm intimate close- up.”
John C. Gawne, the 2007 C.M. Russell Museum Auction CEO Award winner, has participated in The Russell auction since 1995. Painting since the early 1990s, he is represented in numerous galleries and has participated in the Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale, Settlers West American Miniatures show, and Coeur d'Alene Miniature Show.