Clyde Aspevig
A late 20th century plein-air landscape painter of enormous versatility and vision, Clyde Aspevig paints sublime impressionistic vistas of western wilderness; clouds, sky, and shimmering peaks, wild, flowing rivers and huge rock faces half-eclipsed by shadow. Born in northern Montana thirty miles south of the Canadian border his world was shaped by the land. He recounts that growing up in the shadow of five mountain ranges gave him “a sense of enormous space and the profoundness of the sky.”
Encouraged by his parents, Aspevig knew from an early age that he wanted to be a painter, and with a tenacity that still helps define him today, he relentlessly pursued his goal.
Aspevig has been honored with one-man exhibitions at galleries and museums throughout the United States, most recently at New York City’s National Arts Club. He has received such prestigious awards as the 1997 Prix de West from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, the Red Smith Award from the National Museum of Wildlife Art, and the William E. Weiss Purchase Award from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center.