Collection: C. Michael Dudash

C. Michael Dudash was born in 1952 in Mankato, Minnesota, and eventually settled in the Green Mountains of Vermont, where he began a career as an artist and oil painter in 1977. Trained in the fine arts, Dudash’s work in classic illustration won him a prestigious and national reputation. In 2002, after illustrating for twenty-five years, became a full-time fine art painter and moved out West.

He began to sell his work through several prestigious Western galleries and eventually earned his place in the best Western museum shows and national auctions, including at Prix de West, the C.M. Russell Museum, the Briscoe Western Art Museum, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, the Scottsdale Art Auction, and the Coeur d’Alene Art Auction.

Dudash’s work has been featured in numerous publications, including Art of the West, Southwest Art, Western Art Collector, American Artist, and Artists Magazine. Hundreds of collectors and corporations hold his paintings in their permanent collections, as do the Booth Museum, the James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art, and the Briscoe Western Art Museum. In 2016 he became a member of the Cowboy Artists of America.

Dudash lives with his wife, Valerie, near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.