Collection: Untiedt, Michael Ome

Born and raised in rural southeastern Colorado, Michael Ome Untiedt maintains a studio in Denver. Through the color, brush strokes, and symbolic subject matter of his paintings, he examines the human predicament and its connections to the landscape,

“Many of my paintings have the look and feel of the American West...this is the place where I was born and raised. I know the rattle of cottonwoods on a cold fall morning, the hue of dusk's long light on a buffalo grass prairie; I have drunk the cold drip of a blue shale spring. These things have nurtured me from my birth, and coyotes, God's Dogs, have howled their essence into my soul.”

He was made an honorary ranger captain with the Former Texas Ranger Foundation, Fredericksburg, Texas, for his paintings of the Texas Rangers. He was awarded the 2014 Wells Fargo Gold Award, and the 2021 Buffalo Bill Quick Draw People’s Choice Award at the Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming.

His work may be viewed on his website, www.michaelomeuntiedt.com, and at InSight Gallery, Fredericksburg, Texas; Sanders Galleries, Tucson, Arizona; and Cawdrey Gallery, Whitefish, Montana.