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Leland Curtis
Leland Curtis was born in Denver, Colorado in 1897 and lived in Seattle prior to moving to Los Angeles in 1914 where he attended the Manual Arts High School. After serving in World War I, he found work as an illustrator. During the summer of 1931 he exhibited with the most prominent artists of the West, including William Ritschel, Armin Hansen, Granville Redmond, and Maynard Dixon, at the Tahoe Tavern on Lake Tahoe.
Curtis was proud to have been chosen as the official artist for the United States Antarctica Expeditions in 1939, 1940 and 1957. He is widely admired for his paintings done on these trips.
He also created many fine works in both oil and gouache while hiking through the High Sierras and the Grant Tetons and is best known for his desert and mountain landscape scenes. In 1960 he moved to Twenty Nine Palms, California, though he spent many summers in Moose, Wyoming where he had a studio in a rustic log cabin. He was an avid hiker and mountain climber, and had a strong love and respect for nature and a deep appreciation of the magnificent panoramic views.
In 1972 he moved to Carson City, Nevada, where he lived until he passed away in 1989. His paintings have been exhibited by many well respected museums and clubs, including the National Academy of Design in New York, the Laguna Beach Art Association, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.
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