Trace Guthrie
2024 New Braunfels Art League
Artist of the Year
“The Great Escape” by Trace Guthrie. Bronze.
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Trace Guthrie was born in Houston, Texas, where he became a fulltime sculptor and teacher, 51 years ago.
The inspiration started back in the 50’s. He spent his summers in Thorndale, Texas, at his grandparents’ farm-ranch where he watched his uncle create a large drawing with a pencil. He watched with amazement as he rendered in detail an eagle with chicks in a nest.
“I’ll never forget him showing me a fanciful painting out of a book of an eagle carrying away a little girl.” “I was young enough to feel terror when I saw buzzards circling in the sky above that caused me to run screaming as if I had just stepped in a pile of steaming dragon scat. His sons awarded me the big drawing of the eagle with a nest just recently.”
His range of forms span from western wildlife bronze to clay portrait children, abstracts, all the way to humorous, whimsical fantasies, and searching for things that have not been done before.
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His life size and monumental works include a statue of Sam Houston at SHSU in Huntsville; Oliver Twist in Hermann Park, Houston; Prickly Pair of Boots surrounded by native Texas critters stands at the stadium where they hold the Houston rodeo; Migration, a bronze of 5 geese with a 10-foot wingspan, and a memorial bronze in the Rose Garden at M.D. Anderson Hospital in the Houston Medical Center.
Lately, he created a life size bronze of St. Scholastica for St. Benedict Monastery in Boerne, Texas.
NBAL Artists of the Year
Each year, in December, all the award winning artists from each of the NBAL member shows are invited to submit artworks to a judge for consideration as Artist of the Year. This designation is one of the Art League's highest honors. Award winners from the first year of the honor's inception are listed below.
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• 2004 Edward Reichert
• 2005 Rita Kirkman • 2006 Bill Brockmeier • 2007 Dianne Reeves • 2008 Ron Watkins • 2009 Jean Crow • 2010 Myra Knapp |
• 2011 Sheila Blakemore
• 2012 Mary K. Hammond • 2013 Patsy Ledbetter Strode • 2014 Pam Pohl • 2015 Sherry Kelley • 2016 Trace Guthrie • 2017 Robbie George |
• 2018 Susan Calafrancesco
• 2019 Mary McIntosh • 2020 Gregory Lambert • 2021 Norman Bean • 2022 Nell Anderson • 2023 Rendy Spagenberg • 2024 Trace Guthrie |
