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Masters of the American West
Fine Art Exhibition and Sale, Autry Museum of Western Heritage
February 7-March 7, 2004
 Born in rural southwestern Saskatchewan near the Montana border, Dwayne Harty developed an abiding interest in wildlife and art at an early age. During his senior year of high school, a fortuitous meeting with Canadian wildlife artist Clarence Tillenius of Winnipeg, Manitoba, propelled Harty into more formal study. He studied with Tillenius at the Okanagan Game Farm in Penticton, British Columbia, and immediately after at the Art Students League of New York City under Steven Kidd, Thomas Fogarty Jr., Robert Beverly Hale, and David Leffel.
In the fall of 1978 Harty moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and absorbed the tenets of impressionism and plein-air painting under the tutelage of Robert Lougheed, Tom Lovell, and Wilson Hurley. In 1981 Harty accompanied Tillenius to Sweden to study the works of the great wildlife artist Bruno Liljefors, whose technical and conceptual virtuosity exerted an important influence on the budding artist.
Harty is a member of the Society of Animal Artists, from whom he received the Award of Excellence in 1993 and the Leonard J. Meiselman Award in 1995; he currently serves on the Society's executive board. In 1994 he was selected International Artist of the Year at the Natureworks exhibition in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is co-founder of the Academy of Wilderness and Wildlife Art, Canada's finest school dedicated to classical realism in the wilderness and wildlife genres, in Algonquin Park, Ontario. His work is represented in public, private, and corporate collections in Canada, Europe, and the United States.
Harty resides with his family on the outskirts of Dunchurch, a small town in northern Ontario. He is represented by Trailside Galleries, Jackson, Wyoming, and Scottsdale, Arizona.
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