Michael Dudash
b. 1952
BORN IN
Mankato, Minnesota
KNOWN FOR
Western genre, figure and landscape painting, illustration
NAME VARIATIONS
C Michael Dudash
As an illustrator for twenty-five years, Michael Dudash then devoted himself exclusively to fine art easel painting after his children left for college. He became a painter of “images of dramatic realism that are bathed in a mix of light, hidden shadows and romantic atmosphere”. (Wilkinson) Among his subjects are cowboys riding horses in western landscape, western figures, still life, snowscenes, child and adult figures and domestic genre.