Oberg Coors Bio
Ralph Oberg was raised in Aurora CO from age 4. He has spent his entire life in the Rocky Mountains from NM to Montana, but mostly in Colorado. His love of the high mountain wilderness was set early with weekends at his parents little cabin at 9,500’ west of Denver and did numerous solo and group backpacks in his youth. As a child he drew and studied birds and wild animals and chose early to pursue a career as an artist. His art education was primarily workshops with many of the best known western artists of his generation; mentors who are now friends. He is an Emeritus member of the Plein Air Painters of America. He was a member of the Northwest Rendezvous Group and Society of Animal Artists. His travels on foot or horseback took him to numerous mountain Wildernesses from Arizona to Alaska and the Canadian Rockies. Later travels included the Alps and Himalaya. He has lived near Montrose CO with his artist wife Shirley Novak for the past 28 years and at 75 is still going into the mountains.
Oberg’s 55 year career has included:
2023 and 2025 The Woolaroc Retrospective Exhibit and Sale, Bartlesville OK
2006 -2025 The Prix de West Show, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, OKC OK (Received the 2020 Wilson Hurley Landscape Award)
2013-2024 The Night of Artists Show, Briscoe Western Art Museum, San Antonio TX (Received the 2019 Purchase Award) Several California Art Club Gold Medal Shows , Los Angeles CA (Received 2014 Gold Medal Award)
2000-2014 Masters of the American West, Autry Museum, Glendale CA Numerous Western Visions Shows, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson WY (Received 2012 Trustees Purchase Award)
1987-2025 The Buffalo Bill Art Show, Cody WY (Received 1988 Bill Weiss Purchase Award and 2024 Spirit of the Buffalo Bill Award)
He has works in the Permanent Collections of: The Whitney Gallery, Buffalo Bill Center The National Museum of Wildlife Art The Steamboat Springs Art Museum The James Museum of Wildlife Art The Briscoe Western Art Museum
