Aspevig, Clyde, 1951-

Inspired by the sagebrush and wide open horizons of Wyoming and Montana, Clyde Aspevig is a landscape painter who creates sketches on location and finishes the work in his studio. He was trained to be an art educator, and has studied the work of the artists he admires, including John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn, and Winslow Homer.

His obvious talent has won him prestigious recognition including the Frederic Remington Award and the Robert M. Lougheed Memorial Award, both from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. He is a member of the Northwest Rendezvous Group, and is the first Montana artist since Charlie Russell to exhibit at Grand Central Galleries in New York City.

He was born in Rudyard, Montana, and raised on a small working wheat farm near the Canadian border. He left the farm to attend Eastern Montana College in Billings. However, he dropped out to spend the winters in the beautiful Bear Paw Mountains. He soon returned back to college to complete a degree in art education. He taught for one year in Sandy, Oregon and moved back to his home state of Montana with his wife, artist Carol Guzman, to paint full time. From 1988, the couple has lived in Loveland, Colorado where he remodeled a historic church for his studio. Clyde Aspevig's works are located in many public and private art collections around the world.