DENISE LARUE MAHLKE (b. 1957)Born in Victoria; resides in Whitehouse Painted: Purtis Creek SP and Washington-on-the-Brazos SHS EducationStudied landscape painting with Robert Rohm, Lorenzo Chavez, T. Allen Lawson, Len Chmiel, Skip Whitcomb among others, 1998–2018.Studio Art, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, 1979–1981 Career HighlightsGold Medal, Works on Paper and Kieckhefer Award, Best of Show, The West Select, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, 2013Master Signature Member, American Women Artists, 2013First Place in Landscape, Art Renewal Center International Salon, Port Reading, New Jersey, 2010, 2012 Selected ExhibitionsLooking West, American Women Artists, Steamboat Art Museum, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, 201936th Annual Roundup Exhibition and Sale, Museum of Western Art, Kerrville, 2019Perspectives of the American Experience, American Women Artists, Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York, 2018Painting Red Rocks Country, Past & Present, Small group exhibition, Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, Georgia, 2017Stormy Weather; Western Atmospheres, Small group exhibition, Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg, Arizona, 2017Small Works, Great Wonders, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma, 2012–2014, 2016–2018California Art Club’s Annual Gold Medal Exhibition, Pasadena, California, 2016, 2018, 2019Maynard Dixon Country, Invitational Fine Art Show and Sale, Mt. Carmel, Utah, 2003–2017Prevailing Winds, American Women Artists, Master Signature and Signature Members Exhibit, Booth, Western Art Museum, Georgia, 2014The West Select, Western Art Invitational Exhibition and Sale, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, 2013–2014 Selected Public CollectionsBrinton Museum, Big Horn, WyomingTia Collection, Santa FeThunderbird Foundation for the Arts, Mt. Carmel, Utah