CAA Artist
Phil Epp
- CAA Member since
- 2016
- Born
- August 28, 1946
- Education
- Bethel College (Kansas)
Phil Epp was born in York, Nebraska, in 1946 and raised in rural Nebraska on a crop/cattle farm. Phil says he is strongly imprinted into the open spaces of the Great Plains where he was born and have spent most of his life. His paintings reflect this celebration of open sky and landscape, with a hint of human occupation, and he strives to incorporate timeless universal icons into the landscape. A recent trip to the Kazakh Steppe in Central Asia reinforced his efforts at a universal dialog of the sparsely inhabited visual environments. He says his recent works attempt to place emphasis on content and subject over technique and medium, in an effort to better communicate with the viewer.
Phil was awarded the Kansas Governors Artist award in 1985. His paintings have been shown at galleries in New Mexico, Chicago, Kansas City and New York. Numerous monumental public works have been awarded honors, including 8 wonders of Kansas Art in 2009 and Water Tower of the Year in 2010. In 2009, Phil was selected as a U.S. cultural ambassador to Kazakhstan with the U.S. Department of States’ Art in Embassies program. His work has been displayed in American Embassies in Latvia, Africa and Fiji. In 2010 he received the Best of Show award at the Panhandle Plains Invitational in Canyon, Texas.
He recently completed three large paintings for Arrowhead Stadium, home of the Kansas City Chiefs. His induction into the Cowboy Artists of America is a monumental yet humbling honor and challenge. The wide-open spaces and the horses, cowboys, Native Americans and prairie creatures that inhabit this empty landscape have been a lifelong passion. Epp’s studio is based in Kansas and he continues to travel, photograph and paint wide-open western vistas.
CAA Awards Won
- 2025 – Anne W. Marion Best Of Show Award
- 2025 – Oil Painting Award – Gold
- 2023 – Anne W. Marion Best Of Show Award
- 2023 – Artists' Choice Award
- 2023 – Water Solubles Award – Gold
- 2023 – Water Solubles Award – Silver
- 2022 – Anne W. Marion Best Of Show Award
- 2022 – Water Solubles Award – Gold
- 2019 – Water Solubles Award – Gold
- 2017 – Water Solubles Award – Gold
Artwork
Phil Epp
Storm and Horses
10″x10″ · $400
Phil Epp
Open Sky
30″x40″ · $12000
Phil Epp
Open Spaces – SOLD
30″x40″ · $13000
Phil Epp
Open Country
40″x30″ · $13000
Phil Epp
Moonlight and Showers – SOLD
40″x30″ · $11000
Phil Epp
Journey
30″x40″ · $11000
Phil Epp
Four Bays on the Hilltop – SOLD
30″x40″ · $13000
Phil Epp
Crack of Dawn
40″x30″ · $9500
Phil Epp
Horses on the Hilltop – SOLD
10″x10″ · $500
Phil Epp
Cowpony with Parade Saddle – SOLD
36″x46″ · $18000
Phil Epp
Lone Boxcar – SOLD
30″ x 40″ · $11000
Phil Epp
The Visitor – SOLD
30″ x 40″ · $11000
Phil Epp
Night Silence – SOLD
30″ x 40″ · $11000
Phil Epp
Two Horses – SOLD
10″ x 10″ · $500
Phil Epp
Two Hills
64″ X 108″ · $38000
Phil Epp
Afternoon Sky – SOLD
40″ x 30″ · $11000
Phil Epp
Approaching Storm – SOLD
40″ x 40″ · $15000
Phil Epp
Sight and Sound
40″ x 40″ · $15000
Phil Epp
Folding the Fly – SOLD – SOLD
30″ x 40″ · $9500
Phil Epp
Two Horses – SOLD – SOLD
10″ x 10″ · $500
Phil Epp
One-eyed Saratoga – SOLD – SOLD
40″ x 30″ · $9500
Phil Epp
Resting Horses at Night – SOLD – SOLD
30″ x 40″ · $9500
Phil Epp
Fence Builder
40″ x 40″ · $13000
Phil Epp
After Breakfast – SOLD – SOLD
30″ x 40″ · $9500
Phil Epp
Black Sunday – SOLD – SOLD
40″ x 40″ · $13000
Phil Epp
Resting Horses – SOLD – SOLD
40″ x 30″ · $9500
Phil Epp
Evening Vista – SOLD – SOLD
$8500
Phil Epp
Three Horses – SOLD – SOLD
$500
Phil Epp
The Lone Rider – SOLD – SOLD
$8500
Phil Epp
Turbine Field – SOLD – SOLD
$8500
Phil Epp
Distant Storm – SOLD – SOLD
$8500
Phil Epp
The Long Road – SOLD – SOLD
$8500
Phil Epp
Moonlit Night – SOLD – SOLD
$8500
Phil Epp
Into the Wind – SOLD – SOLD
$8500
Phil Epp
Open Spaces
30″x40″ · $8000
Phil Epp
Young Horseman
40” x 40” · $12500
Phil Epp
Under Venus and the Crescent Moon
15″ x 40″ · $6000
Phil Epp
Pawnee Smoke
40″ x 40″ · $12500
Phil Epp
Mysteries of the Night
30” x 40” · $8000
Phil Epp
In the Night
30″ x 40″ · $8000
Phil Epp
Afternoon Breeze
40″ x 30″ · $8000