About the Artist
Anita Mosher Solich
“There is a reason we don't see the world in black and white. Color is vital to our daily lives. I find I express things in color and shapes that I can not find words for any other way”
Blending modern insight with old world training, Anita enjoys painting a variety of subject matter. For Anita, contemporary western art is an interpretation of the moment, captured directly thru color with exuberant strokes across the canvas.
Earning a BSN in Nursing from the University of Kansas, Anita enjoyed work as an operating room nurse for 7 years before she returned to her first love; painting. Her knowledge of anatomy, physiology and what is "under the skin" grounds her foundation whether rendering the hide on a horse, feathers on a rooster or the clothes on a figure.
Post grad art instruction include 6 years of study with oil painters she great admires. Anita trained for three years in the Russian school of painting with Don Sahli who was the last protege of Sergei Bongart, who taught in the tradition of the Russian Impressionists. She also studied at the Art Student League of Denver with Jay Moore and Kim Mackey and spent time studying classical portraiture with LV Davis at the Boulder Academy of Fine Art. As a teen and young adult, Davis trained for 12 years with Clive Martindale who was John Singer Sargent’s assistant for the last 19 years of his life.
Originally from Kansas City, Anita first studied art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum when she was six years old. Anita's interest in art began early, watching her mother paint portraits and the figure. Anita has paintings in her personal art collection from her maternal grandmother, also an accomplished artist.
Galleries who have represented Anita's work span across the western United States including Scottsdale, Santa Fe, Napa, Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Vail and Denver, CO. She owned a studio-gallery for 16 years in Denver, CO ( 2002-2018) with 2 artist partners and reduced her outside gallery/show representation focusing primarily on her gallery during this time. Anita continues to paint many commissions and participate in select museum and gallery shows across the western United States.
Residing and drawing inspiration from her mountain home studio in Castle Rock, CO; her work has been featured in articles numerous times in Southwest Art magazine including “Artist to Watch” in 2001 and in American Art Collector, Western Art Collector, Art of the West and Vail Art Magazine.
She is a Founding Emeritus member of Plein Air Artists Colorado and a Signature Member of the National Oil and Acrylic Painter’s Society and the Outdoor Painters Society.
Select Shows & Exhibitions
-2012-2026 Settlers West Miniature Show, Tucson, AZ
-2023-2026 CM Russell Museum, Charlie's March Round Up; The Russell, August 2023; Great Falls, MT
-2021-2026 Young Guns at the Coors Western Art Show, Denver, CO
-2002-2025 Mountain Oyster Club Contemporary Western Art Show & Sale, Tucson, AZ
-2020-2023 Colorado Governor’s Invitational Art Show & Sale Loveland Museum Gallery, Loveland, CO
-2004-2014 Colorado Governor’s Invitational Art Show & Sale Loveland Museum Gallery, Loveland, CO
-2020 American Women Artists - Making Their Mark at the Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA
-2020 American Impressionist Society Small Works Showcase, RS Hanna Gallery, Fredericksburg, TX
-2019 Settlers West Summer Show; Tucson, AZ
-2019 Instructors Show, Curtis Center for the Arts, Greenwood Village, CO
-2018, 2020 35th Annual All Colorado Art Show, Curtis Center for the Arts, Greenwood Village, CO
-2002-2018 Brushstrokes Studio-Gallery, LLP, multiple group and solo shows every year.
-2006-2016 National Oil & Acrylics Painters Society National Juried Show
-2013 Trailside Galleries, Masters in Miniature, Jackson Hole, WY
-2012-2013 Solo Show, Worrell Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
-2012-2013 Solo Show, Longcoat Gallery, Ruidoso, NM
-2009, 2011 American Impressionist Society Juried Show, Saks Galleries, Denver, CO; Mountainsong Galleries, Carmel, CA
-2009 American Art in Miniature, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
-2006-2017 Plein Air Artists Colorado Juried Show
-2007-2009 Master Impressionist Society Show
-2007, 2011 Outdoor Painters Society Invitational Southwest Gallery, Dallas, TX
-2005 Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters Invitational Winter Park and Estes Park, CO
-2004 Solo Show Hallar Gallery, Kansas City, MO
-2006 Solo Show Gallery Alexander, Vail, CO
Corporate Collections
St. Josephs Hospital, Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Colorado State University, Kaiser Permanente, Craig Hospital, Crown Hill Mortuary, Band-It Corporation, The Evergreen Metro District, Medical Center of the Rockies, United Western Bank, Moody Insurance Agency, Max Gill & Grill, OnCURE Medical Corp., Kent Place Denver, Sunrise Senior Living Center, Vail Valley Medical Center Edwards Shaw Cancer Pavilion, UMB Bank, Trailhead Lodge in Steamboat Springs, CO, Silver Cross Hospital, Fuller Sotheby’s Real Estate; Boulder, CO, Citywide Bank, The Children’s Hospital, SFC Energy Partners, Four Point Energy, University of Colorado Evans Scholar House, University of Oregon Evans Scholar House, Citywide Bank, St. Anthony’s Hospital, Denver, CO; Columbine Country Club, Littleton, CO; Castle Pines Golf Club; Cherry Hills Country Club.
Select Private Collectors
Jack Nicholson, John Elway, Larry Walker, Mike Hampton
