William (Bill) Alther is a representational painter, working primarily in oil. He has been an active artist, either part-time or full-time, for more than 25 years and has advanced his artistic development through workshops and classes at the Rocky Mountain School of Art & Design and the Denver Art Students League. “Perhaps my most beneficial training has come from friendships and painting sessions with other artists. I nearly always learn something from hanging around with them, whether they’re nationally prominent or just starting out.” His interest and background in natural sciences, including a degree in wildlife biology and 12 years as a zoologist at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, provides additional insight for rendering convincing images of the natural world. “I am most attracted to landscape and wildlife subjects, which often go hand in hand. But I don’t want to be limited. Anything I find compelling is a possibility for a painting.”

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Salon International, 2006, 2007, Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art, San Antonio, TX

Society of Animal Artists 47th Annual Exhibition, 2007, The Wildlife Experience, Parker, CO

Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition, 2006, Dana Gallery, Missoula, MT

Oil Painters of America Central Regional, 2007, South Wind Gallery, Topeka, KS

American Birds: A Flight Through Time, 2005, The Wildlife Experience, Parker, CO

Colorado Art Open, 2005, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO

IV Centuries of Birds in Paintings, Sculpture & Fine Prints, 2003, Clarke Galleries, Stowe, VT

Birds in Art, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI

Arts for the Parks (Top 100 2003, 2005; Miniatures 2002, 2004), National Park Academy of the Arts, Jackson, WY

MEMBERSHIPS

Oil Painters of America

Society of Animal Artists

COLLECTIONS