Randy McCurdy is a romantic realist salon painter and illustrator. He is best known for his calming and pastoral landscape paintings inspired by the beauty of the wetland and forest regions of central Pennsylvania, and for his delightful illustrations that are deeply rooted in the "Golden Age" of American illustration.

He is studied in the traditions of the Brandywine and Hudson River schools of American painting, but attributes his skills and understanding of the fine arts to his brother, the Late Allen McCurdy, (fine art educator and painter from the New Hope, PA. colony of painters (circa 1968-1975).

Since 2007, Randy has achieved national recognition as an American tonalist painter by the University of Southern California. In 2010, he provided the Pennsylvania Green Way Organization fine art representation for their state-wide promotional endeavors. In 1998 he received a govenors award for his contribution to the design and inspiration of the US minted Pennsylvania 25 cent piece. In 1980, Randy provided illustration for the republication of the Saturday Evening Post magazine.

Randy is a native of south central PA, and worked for 35 years for the New York and New Jersey garment and textile industries as a graphic artist specializing in color separation and engraving.

Mr. McCurdy has cataloged nearly 300 formal oil paintings found throughout North America and Europe, and an estimated 5,000 works of illustration and commercial art.

He continues to paint and study at his home in east central Pennsylvania and is a member of the Hamburg Area Art Alliance.

E. J. Prescott Esq

Statement From The Artist

I grew up among the plain Brethren folk of rural Lebanon and Dauphin counties Pennsylvania, and it was from these gentle natured hard working farm people that I learned my respect and love for the lands that I paint. My memories of the golden fields of grains, and the dreamy moist meadows of wildflowers along the banks of the Swatara Creek, would eventually become the driving inspiration for what is now my life's work. Many of my paintings are composed purely from these memories, and being born into a family of artists and musicians certainly had a profound influence on molding my artistic poetry.

I was able to draw and sketch people and places quite accurately at a very young age. My Mother was the reason for that. She would always have little pieces of cardboard in her purse ( the ones that came in boxes of Shredded Wheat Cerial). On Sunday mornings at church, when the sermon would go on to long, and I began to squirm in the pew, she would give me a cardboard and pencil, and say "lets see what you can draw".

I still get up everyday and think to my self "Let's see what I can draw today".

Randy McCurdy