Fred Fellows
was born in Ponca City, Oklahoma, headquarters
for both the Old Time 101 Ranch Wild West
Show and the Ponca, Oto and Osage Indian Reservations.
Family tradition and respect for both the
west and fine art had a profound influence
as he grew up in northern Oklahoma.
His paintings
and sculptures have been featured in many
magazines throughout the country; among them
are Arizona Highways, Western Horseman, Newsweek,
Southwest Art and Architectural Digest. His
work has won many awards including the Grumbacher
Fine Arts Award and the Printing Institute
of America Award. Fellows has won several
CAA awards including Gold Medal for Most Popular
Work (1976), Silver Medal for Sculpture (1991-1995)
and Best of Show in 1991. His work was included
in the first American art exhibit in Mainland
China in 1980 and the Grand Palais in Paris
in 1979. His work is also in the collections
of many U.S. museums and corporations. One
of his Gold Medal sculptures recently won
the purchase prize to go into the permanent
collection at the Buffalo Bill Historical
Center in Cody, Wyoming.
Fellows is a
member of the Cowboy Artists of America, having been elected
into membership in 1968. He was selected by
the Hesston Corporation to be it's National
Finalists Rodeo Artist and created a series
of paintings, sculptures and belt buckles
relating to the NFR Network Telecast.
Fellows was
honored to have had a retrospective at the
Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2002
and was selected to be the Tucson Artist of
the Year, 2002.
Fellows
lives with his artist wife Deborah Fellows at their adobe ranch home in Sonoita,
Arizona
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