McLarry Fine Art offers a diverse and vibrant roster of contemporary artists. Featuring traditional painting and sculpture from emerging and renowned artists. Displaying a variety of subject matter including: Southwestern and Western art, regional landscape, figurative work, and Native American art.

Dix Baines

Dix Baines paints a range of subjects in his expressive, light-infused style. Characterized by his bold brushwork and dramatic use of light and color, his paintings depict landscapes, villages, adobe buildings, fishing scenes and the river environment as a whole.

David Ballew

Painter David Ballew was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1955. He was raised in the East and the Midwest and studied art at Indiana University. Attracted by the striking landscape and the radiant light for which New Mexico is renowned, he settled in Santa Fe in 1981. In addition to being surrounded by the terrain he finds most inspiring, living in Santa Fe has enabled Ballew to interact and learn with numerous artist he greatly admires, most notably Irby Brown, Michael Lynch, George Carlson, Ned Jacob and Mark Daily.

Paige Bradley

Paige Bradley has been inspired to sculpt the human figure in bronze since childhood. Born in Carmel, California, the artist found much inspiration in her own physical strength and the surrounding beauty of the Monterey Peninsula. Immersed in nature and art, Bradley' had early fascination with the human figure. She believes that through the figure, an artist can speak a universal language that is timeless.

Tim Cherry

Tim Cherry's sculptures are issued in small editions. They are marked by highly polished surfaces, innovative patinas, elegant forms and a sense of whimsy. At twenty-five he gained membership in the Society of Animal Artists, and at thirty, he was elected into membership in the National Sculpture Society and the National Sculptors Guild. In 2001 he received the James Earl Fraser Sculpture Award. Tim's work is widely collected, and his work is seen in major exhibitions throughout the US, collector's homes, and in public places internationally.

Cheri Christensen

"I am inspired by the simple, everyday interaction of the animals in their environment; the way that light dances across the form, the harmony of color relationships, and the shapes of light and shadow. I prefer early-morning light or late afternoon settings, with extreme back-lighting. My focus is on the farm animals and the use of color, light, and the texture of the oil paint to convey a mood." - Cheri Christensen

Donna Clair

Captivated by the landscape and architecture of northern New Mexico, Donna Clair has been painting the area surrounded by Santa Fe, Taos and the high mountain village of Truchas for nearly forty years. Donna Clair's work has been featured in a number of books and periodicals including Leading the West, Art of the American West, and Southwest Art Magazine. She has lived in Taos, NM for the past 18 years.

Herbert Davidson

Herbert Davidson is now represented by McLarry Fine Art

Peter Hagen

Residing in Santa Fe, plein air landscape painter, Peter Hagen, is surrounded by the terrain which most inspires him. Motivated by his love of exploration and the challenges presented by changes in light and weather, nearly all of Hagen's canvases are painted outdoors. "I paint outside because it inspires me. It's emotionally exciting. I can see what's happening with the sun, the clouds. I can hear the wind as it rushes through the trees, it's all out there, everything."

Travis Hall

In 1997, Hall moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in order to apprentice the renowned artist, Poteet Victory. During this time of learning and refining technique, he began to recreate scenes of his native countryside from his memory. Hall's fascination and appreciation for times past have inspired a body of work that incorporates architectural elements. He uses gold leaf and other classical design motifs which attach a sense of history to the artwork.

Johanna Harmon

Johanna paints her figures both accurately and beautifully. Observations and emotions are balanced within her canvases by her mastery of the formal aspects art and her reverence and compassion for her subjects. Her models are mostly female, but they differ in their ethnicities and are often times dancers, mothers with their children and young women in contemplative poses.

Sherry Harrington

Sherry is primary self taught. The subjects she has painted range from Americana and Cowboys and scenes of the American West to what she has become most dedicated to: Native American people. Her focus is now almost entirely on capturing the Native people she has come to know through painting them in carefully worked intimate portraits. Every year she and her husband travel to reservations in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, and South Dakota where she reconnects with her previous models and gets to know her new ones.

Donna Howell-Sickles

Donna's works are largely mixed-media. She works on paper and canvas in a mix of charcoal, pastel and acrylic most often leaving her under-drawing visible. In Donna's pieces, the cowgirl achieves the status of a heroine, and her images have brought her national attention and success. Her work is rich with symbolism and allusions to classical mythology, but the viewer does not need to be familiar with the references in order to appreciate the female affirmations of each piece.

Her paintings can be found in museum collections throughout the west including the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Texas; The National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas; The Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody Wyoming and several others. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and a book, Cowgirl Rising, has been made of her work.

J E Knauf

Born in 1948, and raised in beach towns neighboring Los Angeles, J.E. Knauf left California in 1966 to study art at Northern Arizona University. While becoming skilled at painting and drawing there, he often traveled the back roads of the Navajo, Hopi, and Apache reservations and explored Arizona's rural mining and ranching communities in order to gather impressions of the West.

Knauf is a founding member of The Other Side of the West, a distinguished group of contemporary Southwestern artists currently exhibiting paintings at museums around the country. He has been the cover artist for Southwest Art and U.S. art Gallery and his work has been seen in numerous publications. His work is represented in major private and corporate collections throughout the U.S.

J Mark Kohler

Born in Austin, but raised in the woodlands of East Texas, watercolorist Mark Kohler depicts the independent spirit of the modern working cowboy with all the admiration he feels for his proud subjects. "I applaud the values and self-sufficiency of the working cowboyŠEach painting becomes an opportunity to portray my subjects as they deserve to be, with dignity"

Phill Nethercott

Dedicated to capturing the majesty of his birthplace in his work, painter Phill Nethercott is a true native to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. His great-grandparents were among the first settlers of the Teton valley when they arrived there in 1896. "It's one of those places where in every direction there's something wonderful to paint, and the mood is constantly changing."

Nethercott co-founded the prestigious Art for the Parks competition. In the late eighties, he and fellow artist Patty Boyd decided to create an event that would provide emerging artists an opportunity to show and compete with better known artists. The exhibition would offer a prize of $100,000 and U.S. national parks would be its theme. From the start an enormous success, the competition is approaching its twentieth anniversary.

Tim Nicola

In 1980 Tim moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in order to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts. Although he initially enrolled as a painter, after a short time he became interested in three-dimensional arts to which he fast became devoted. His first sculpture teacher was renowned sculpture Doug Coffin, and another mentor of Tim's was award winning sculptor Doug Hyde. In 1995, Tim's monumental bronze sculpture - The Life Givers - won 1st place, Best of Division in Bronze and Best of Class in Sculpture at Santa Fe's 74th Indian Market. He placed first in stone works in the 75th, 76th, and 77thIndian Market and has been awarded numerous other prizes and recognitions throughout his career.

Andrew Peters

"A painting should read like a window into a place: luminous and fresh," he says. Andrew's elegant plein air paintings are born of his love for the open road and his endless quest for new subject matter. For more than twenty years Andrew has the world seeking inspiration on a daily basis in places that appeal to him on an emotional as well as visual level. Over the years he has painted in Africa, Central and South America, Ireland, Spain, Morocco, Romania and Italy. He and wife frequently pack their horses into the western U.S. wilderness to paint alpine lakes and glaciers at timberline, and his most recent body of work reflect these travels in Wyoming, Colorado and Montana. He is based out of studios in Arizona and Wyoming.

Chuck Sabatino

Sabatino's works are meticulously detailed renditions of his beautifully composed still-lifes in rich warm hues. He paints the pottery of the Zuni, Acoma, Santo Domingo, Cochiti, San Ildefonzo and Santa Clara often arranged alongside beaded moccasins, arrow bags, dresses, flowers, the photos of E. S. Curtis and other paper works. His combinations create a multiplicity in texture and color, and represent a range of visual and historical interests.

Paul Van Ginkel

Painter Paul Van Ginkel has an affinity for the 'old west' and is fascinated with its history, figures and lifestyles of old. His work is well-known and respected within the western art community, and he has been awarded numerous awards and distinctions.

Van Ginkel's work has been featured in numerous publications including the book Western Traditions - Contemporary Artists of the American West. He was recently chosen by Albuquerque's Fresco Fine Art Publications as one of the top 38 contemporary western artists.

Lael Weyenberg

Residing in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Lael Weyenberg has come to be reputed as one of the finest still life painters in the country. Her great affection for her subjects coupled with refined talent results in striking portrayals of objects that we all hold dear. Lael creates simple arrangements, often of one or two objects and captures them with rich color, plentiful oil paint and brushwork impressionistic in nature. In addition to her still life paintings, Lael paints landscapes and intimate interior scenes.

Xiang Zhang

Born in the year of the Horse, Xiang Zhang (pronounced Shong Zang) grew up in China. After graduating from the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, where he was strongly influenced by the 19th century Russian masters, he received his Masters Degree in Fine Art from Tulane University in New Orleans. While at Tulane, he honed his skills portraiture and began painting western themes.

Numerous awards in regional and national shows marked him as an artist to watch. The excellent consistent quality of Zhang's work has made him a notable western artist.

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