I’ve always loved rivers. As I boy I’d spend time canoeing and fishing on rivers and now, as a landscape artist, I appreciate them more than ever. The NYC Watershed Art Project has given me a chance to work with some of the best landscape painters in the country to explore the beautiful rivers that provide drinking water to New York City. We’ve been following the methods of the Hudson River School painters by exploring and documenting the locations through plein air sketches and paintings, as well as learning from local experts and historians. Over the winter months, we are developing our field sketches into fully finished studio works for the September 2025 exhibition. Each artist sees a different world, even when standing side by side, and I can hardly wait to see what visions this group of wonderful painters will come up with.
Neversink River No. 1, oil on panel
Birth of the Neversink River, oil on panel
Croton Gorge Dam, oil on panel
Pepacton Reservoir in Clouds, oil on panel
Tony Winters bio
Tony Winters is a prize-winning landscape artist and Hudson River Fellowship recipient. He is the 2022 recipient of the Magazzini Landscape Prize from New York’s Salmagundi Club. In 2023 and 2019 he was a Finalist in the ARC International Salon and in 2016 he was Grand Prize Winner at the Sagamore Hill Plein Air Competition in New York. Classically trained, he uses traditional painting techniques to portray America’s contemporary natural environment. He received his B.A. degree in Fine Arts from the University of the South, and was recipient of the John B. McCrady Award in the Fine Arts. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Texas at Austin, with continuing education at the Grand Central Atelier and the New York Academy of Art. He has exhibited his paintings nationally and been featured in online and print publications.
Croton Gorge Spillway During Drought, oil on panel