Fred Fellows – Artist Bio

in Artist, Fellows, Fred

b. 1934
Arizona, Western Figure-Genre, Sculptor

Born in Ponca City, Oklahoma, Fred Fellows had early exposure to ranching and the Otoe and Osage Indian reservations. He grew up in California where he worked as a cowboy and was apprenticed for four years to a saddlemaker. He also roped calves and steers on the rodeo circuit. Without formal art training, he spent 10 years as a commercial artist and as an art director.

In 1964, he moved his family to Big Fork, Montana to devote himself to painting. Fellows specializes in cowboys, Indians and the West. He is a two-time past president of the Cowboy Artists of America organization. His paintings and sculptures have been featured in many magazines through the country, including Arizona Highway, Western Horseman, Newsweek, Southwest Art, Artist of the Rockies and Playboy. His work has won many awards including the Grumbacher Fine Arts Award and the Printing Institute of America Award.

Fellow is one of the few artists who has won Gold and Silver Medals in both painting and sculpture at the annual Cowboy Artists of America exhibit in the Phoenix Art Museum. One of his Gold Medal sculptures recently won the purchase prize to go into the permanent collection of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming.