Randal Dutra

Randal M. Dutra is an artist who both paints and sculpts in the school of impressionism/realism. His subject matter includes the figure, animal and landscape. Dutra began his art career studying at the Okanagan Game Farm in British Columbia, Canada, from 1975 to 1984. For those nine years he drew, painted and sculpted animals from life under Clarence Tillenius, of Winnipeg, Manitoba. These were formative years and instilled in Dutra a lifelong love of observing nature.
During that time, he also studied figure drawing in 1977 at the Art Students League in New York, and in 1978, received private instruction in painting from the western impressionist Robert Lougheed of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dutra then furthered his studies with George Carlson and Bob Kuhn. From 1979 to 1981,
he learned the art of bronze casting with Piero Mussi, in Berkeley, California. He has traveled extensively in Africa, Europe, Canada, and the western United States.
Dutra has exhibited his work at: the “Prix de West Invitational” at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for the past seven years, the “Masters of the American West” at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles, California, J.N. Bartfield Galleries, New York, the National Museum of Wildlife in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin, and the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, among others.
Dutra has also been honored by his peers in the movie industry with two Academy Award Oscar nominations for best achievement in visual effects as animation director for the 1997 film, “Jurassic Park II: The Lost World”, and the 2005 film, “War of the Worlds”.