Collection: Oberg, Ralph

Ralph Oberg grew up hiking, camping, hunting, and climbing in the high mountain wilderness of Colorado and the West. He has traveled extensively across the United States, sketching and photographing, aiming to share his experiences through his art. He produces larger works at his studio in Montrose, Colorado, where he and his wife, the painter Shirley Novak, live within sight of his beloved San Juan Mountains.

Oberg has shown his work widely in exhibitions and sales at Western art museums, including the 2023 Woolaroc Retrospective Exhibit and Sale in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and the 2021 Four Directions—Common Paths retrospective at the Steamboat Art Museum, Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He has received such awards as the 2020 Wilson Hurley Memorial Award for Landscape at the Prix de West Invitational, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City; 2019 Purchase Award at Night of Artists; 2014 California Art Club’s Gold Medal Award; 2015 Wells Fargo Award and 1988 William Weiss Purchase Award at the Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming; and the 2012 Trustee’s Purchase Award at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming.

Oberg is a member of the Society of Animal Artists, Plein Air Painters of America, Northwest Rendezvous Group, and California Art Club. His work has appeared in Art of the West, Southwest Art, Sporting Classics, Western Art Collector, Western Art and Architecture, and Wildlife Art.