Deborah Copenhaver Fellows
Famous for her depiction of the West in bronze and her state veteran war memorials in the Northwest, Deborah Copenhaver Fellows was recently elected for lifetime membership into the National Sculpture Society in New York. She is also the only woman chosen of 150 artists who submitted this year to exhibit in the premier Western art show in the United States, the 2009 Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition and Sale at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
Deborah grew up on a ranch in northern Idaho and began sculpting in the evenings while she was head wrangler for a dude ranch in Arizona. She earned her degree in Fine Arts and paid her way through professional education and independent studies in Italy where she learned the techniques of the European Masters.
Deborah now sculpts subjects closely related to her Western heritage. She and her husband Fred Fellows live on their horse ranch in Arizona.
“Her sculpture of horses and horsemen could not be more true if she mixed the clay with her blood, because it comes straight from her heart.”
-JPS Brown, noted author
Recent honors include:
2005 Best Sculpture Award Buffalo Bill Cody Art Show
2006 Best Sculpture Award Desert Caballeros Museum Cowgirl Up Art Show
2006 Honorary Artist member M.O. Club Tucson, Arizona
2006 Invited Artist Cowgirl Hall of Fame Art Show
2006 Invited Artist Gilcrease Museum Tulsa Oklahoma
2006 Purchase Award Mountain Oyster Club Art Show Tucson, Arizona
2007 Invited Artist American Academy of Equine Art, Lexington Kentucky
2008 Voted life time member to the National Sculpture Society
2008 Invited Artist to Prix De West
Galleries showing Deborah’s work:
Trailside Americana Galleries - Scottsdale, Arizona -
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Medicine
Man Galleries - Tucson, Arizona - Santa Fe New, Mexico
Big Horn Galleries - Cody, Wyoming - Tubac, Arizona
Wind River Gallery - Aspen, Colorado
