"Using wide, generously loaded brushes and rich, bright colors, this artist, based in Washington State, creates appealing traditionalist weddings of painterly materialism and radiant illusionism." -Ken Johnson, The New York Times

"What distinguishes these paintings is not so much the subject matter as the sophistication of their pictorial language." - Gary Faigin, National Public Radio

Short Films about Kurt Solmssen by John Thornton
A Sense of Place Painting in the Snow
Drawings The Yellow Boat
Artist of the Puget Sound I Artist of the Puget Sound II