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The Classical Artist

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architecture & design

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portfolio

Statues

Buildings

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

Buildings

Buildings

Fort Worth Architecture, Frost Brothers

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

Liberty Statue, Striding Liberty, Michael Curtis

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

Landscape & Gardens

American Eagle Coin Medal Statue Michael Curtis

Specialty in fine medals, including the George Washington Presidential Medal, the John Marshall Medal in Law, The Federalist Society's James Madison Medal, et cetera. 

Landscape & Gardens

Landscape & Gardens

Landscape & Gardens

Griffin, Classic Gryphon

Landscapes, pools, fountains, follies, and institutional features are each designed in sympathy to the context.  

the studio

Services

Current Projects

Current Projects

Architectural Plan, Tidewater

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

Current Projects

Current Projects

Current Projects

Grave Marker, Portrait Gravestone

A selection of Statues, Medals,  Homes, Gravestones,  Books and Lectures in progress, 2022.

Available Work

Current Projects

Available Work

Hercules Statue, Herakles, Michael Curtis

A selection of Statues and Statuettes completed and available and others in progress, nearing completion.

Books & Prose

Tours & Lectures

Available Work

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

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Books & Verse

Tours & Lectures

Tours & Lectures

Translation and original books of verse: Commentary; The Priapeia; Galatea; Bee Bee Verses; Land of Sunlight and Stars, et cetera.

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Tours & Lectures

Tours & Lectures

Tours & Lectures

Alexandria Classical Academy

Recent tours, lectures, and essays on classical aesthetics, American art history, and classical Washington DC.

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

Contribution

Contribution

 Traditional teaching and lecturing at universities, colleges, and museums including The Institute of Classical Architecture, The Center for Creative Studies, 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, Western Civilization, and civil society.      

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Michael Curtis

The Studio

820 South Columbus Street, No. 210, Alexandria, Virginia 22314

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RESUME 

M. Curtis, Resume, 2020, with portfolio (pdf)Download

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