THE CLASSICAL ARTIST

the studio

Sales Gallery

America 250, Heroes & Legends

Statues and statuettes completed and available for sale, and other statuary in progress, nearing completion.

America 250, Heroes & Legends

In celebration of the Semiquincentennial, our 250th Anniversary, statuettes, medallions, and cameos of American Heroes, Myths & Legends.

Current Projects

America 250, Heroes & Legends

Current Projects

Various projects in statuary, pictuary, architecture, literature, and the allied arts in 2024 and 2025.

Services

The Beautiful Home

Current Projects

Civic Statues, Portrait Busts, Architectural Design, Graphic Design, Product Design, Decorative Painting.

The Beautiful Home

A blog of house and home offering beautiful house plans, advice on styles and design, history, hints and guidelines for homeowners and house lovers.

Tours & Lectures

The Beautiful Home

Recent tours, lectures, and essays on architecture, American history, civic virtue, classical Washington D.C., and Classive Civilization.

Books in Prose & Verse

Books in fiction and exposition: Classical Architecture and Monuments of Washington, D.C.; Occasional Poetry; Bunyan's Chores; et cetera.

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portfolio

Statues

Buildings

History of Texas, The Alamo, Michael Curtis

Significant commissions include The History of Texas (the largest US frieze of the 20th Century), Justice Thurgood Marshall, and many public statues, including General Eisenhower. Recent commissions include a double portrait and a general’s cartouche.

Buildings

Commissions include The New American Home, The Frost Building, homes for houseplans.com, a townhouse block and home additions. Also developing two architectural Orders to amend the traditional Orders: The “Levantian” and the “Aeolian”, included in The Beautiful Home.

Portraits

Buildings

Funerary Arts

Numerous portrait busts for the Library of Congress, The Supreme Court Building, and other public buildings, including Justice Thurgood Marshall. Corporate and private portraits are found in the United States and Europe.

Funerary Arts

Landscape & Gardens

Funerary Arts

Classical Urn, Columbarium, Michael Curtis

Stones, monuments, and memorials are designed to flatter the landscape, to fit the setting, and to honor the person.

Medals & Awards

Landscape & Gardens

Specialty in fine medals, including the George Washington Presidential Medal, the John Marshall Medal in Law, the Reagan-Truman Medal of Freedom, the Scruton Prize, The Federalist Society's James Madison Medal, et cetera.

Landscape & Gardens

Landscapes, pools, fountains, follies, and institutional features are each designed in natural sympathy to architecture.

experience

Leadership

Contribution

Leadership

Accomplished leader in the classical arts with forty years’ experience in arts-administration, teaching, architecture, sculpture, painting, writing and design; including the formation of scholarly organizations, cultural institutions, and artistic projects which have grown the classical tradition.

Practice

Contribution

Leadership

Classical pictures and statues housed in over 300 private and public collections including The Library of Congress and The United States Supreme Court; public statues include General Eisenhower, Justice Thurgood Marshall, The History of Texas, and various portraits and medals, Geo. Washington for The National Portrait Gallery, James Madison for The Federalist Society, Justice John Marshall for the John Marshall Foundation, et cetera.

Contribution

Traditional teaching and lecturing at universities, colleges, and museums including The Institute of Classical Architecture, The Common Sense Society, and The National Gallery of Art. Many works in prose and in verse, both fiction and nonfiction, attest to an abiding interest in essential American traditions, Classive Civilization, and civil society.