Len Chmiel Biography

Born:
Chicago, IL, 1942

Selected Exhibitions
2004 Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV (also 99, 96, 94, 92, 89, 87, 86, 84, 83, 81, 78)
        Coors Exhibition, Denver Stock Show, Featured Artist (also 03, 02, 00, 99, 98)
        Autry Museum, Masters of the American West, Los Angeles, CA, Artists Choice Award (also 03, 02)
        National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK (also 2003-1996)
2001 Governor's Invitational, Loveland, CO (also 2000-1991)
1999 National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY, Artists Choice Award
        University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
        Sangre de Cristo Museum, Pueblo, CO
1995 Underwriter's Show, one-man exhibition, Boulder, CO
1994 National Academy of Western Art, National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, OK (also 93-91)
1993 Seven from Denver, National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, OK
1991 The Eiteljorg Invitational No. 2, Indianapolis, IN
1988 Artists of the West, CO
1986 Artists of America Show, CO (also 85, 84)

Bibliography:
Southwest Art Magazine, 2002, 1999, 1995, 1986, 1983
Contemporary American Oil Painting, by Zhang Xuejie, Jilin Fine Arts Publishing, 1999
Freshen Your Paintings with New Ideas, by Lew Lehrman, North Light Press, 1995
Western Art Digest, 1986
American Artist's Magazine, 1981
Business Week Magazine, 1976
Who's Who in American Art
Who's Who in the West

Teaching:
Arnot Museum, NY
Denver Art Museum, CO
Disney Feature Animation Studios, Burbank, CA
Disney Feature Animation Studios, Orlando, FL
Guest Lecturer, Laverock, Oxstead, U.K.
Rocky Mountain School of Art, CO
Scottsdale Artists School, Inc., AZ
Sun Valley Center for the Arts, ID

Public and Private Collections:
Colorado Springs Pioneers' Museum, CO
Museum of New Mexico
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY
Walter Annenberg, CA
Governor and Mrs. Richard Lamm, CO
1st National Bank, Colorado Springs, CO
Bank of Cherry Creek, CO
Dunn-Gardener Petroleum, KA
Globe Corporation, AZ
Inter-State Assurance Company, IA
J.C. Nichols Co., KA
Johns Manville Corporation, CO
M Corp., TX
Manton Cork Corporation, NY
Preston Oil Company, TX
Rockwell Corporation
Sabinal Bank, TX
Sierra Pacific Power Company, NV
Sierra Pacific Resources, NV
Snow Goose Investments, CO
State of Wyoming
United Bank Center, CO
United Bank of Skyline, CO