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Located on the Mountain in the lobby of the Sheraton Hotel, Wild Horse
Gallery of Steamboat Springs offers fine contemporary realism by local,
regional, and nationally known artists. Original oil paintings,
pastels, watercolors, drawings, etchings, bronze sculpture, turned
wooden bowls, jewelry and limited edition prints on canvas give the
discriminating collector a wide variety of exceptional artwork to choose
from.
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Shirley Stocks - Owner/Artist
Shirley Stocks, and her artist husband, Richard Galusha, own the Wild Horse Gallery. She was born and raised in the Little Snake River Valley of Southern Wyoming and moved to Southern California in 1969 to begin her art education. She studied watercolor, architectural rendering, cartooning, stained glass, oil painting, drawing and pastels. She has worked for Riverhouse Editions where she also learned itaglio printmaking. Her landscapes, florals and stillifes today include watercolor, pastels, oils, and intaglio prints.
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Richard Galusha - Owner/Artist
Richard Galusha is co-owner of the Wild Horse Gallery with his wife Shirley Stocks. Richard was born in Casper, WY, but grew up on his family’s ranch in West Texas where he developed a love and understanding for horses, which he has expressed in his art from a very early age. When he was thirteen his family, consisting of nine brothers and sisters, moved to Boulder, CO. After high school, he joined the Navy and traveled to the Far East, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. While in the Navy, Richard had a studio in the barracks on the island of Guam and completed many drawings and paintings of island and military life. After the Navy, Richard completed his BFA in Art at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO. Richard’s real love is painting in plein aire and portraits, as well as western genre. He enjoys painting the landscapes near his home in Hahns Peak, CO and taking painting trips with his wife and his dog “Sierra”. He has shown in many local, regional and national shows and his work is private collections throughout the United States.
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