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Jeff Legg Biography
Master Signature Member, Oil Painters of America
Jeff C. Legg's artistic interests developed in childhood and by age 13, he was
apprentice to a well-known regional artist and college art professor Darrel Dishman.
This nearly four years of mentoring under Mr. Dishman laid the foundation for
his drawing and painting skills, which led him to study at the Atelier Lack in
Minneapolis and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. The great masters,
Chardin, Rembrandt, and more contemporarily the Wyeths are among his artistic
influences. It is this nod to the legacy of the old masters combined with his inspired
contemporary use of chiaroscuro and subject matter that engage fellow artists
and collectors world-wide. Today, Legg's artwork is represented by some of the
nation's most distinguished galleries coast to coast. He is honored as an Oil Painters
of America Master painter and has won numerous prizes including awards at
both the 2004 and 2006 National Oil Painters of America Exhibition, and more
recently Salon International 2008 as well as the Oil Painters of America Western
Regions "Best Master Signature Member". His paintings have been featured in The
Artists Magazine, North Light books, Southwest Art, Art of the West, Western Art
Collector and American Art Collector magazines. In December 2005, his artwork
graced the cover of Southwest Art as featured artist and article. Currently, Legg
resides in the Northern Colorado Rockies. He paints daily in his studio.
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