Floyd de witt fine art
This spring, we relaunch the FTD Fine Art website—renewed in form and spirit—to continue honoring Floyd T. DeWitt’s artistic legacy. Just as spring marks renewal and transformation, this website serves as a living testament to his relentless passion, discipline, and profound understanding of the human experience.
"Sculpture is in itself a language—the silent language of form."
— Floyd DeWitt
This is more than a collection of images; it is a portal into the world of a sculptor whose work was forged through unwavering dedication. Born in Wolf Point, Montana, Floyd’s journey took him from ranch work and western painting to a defining period of artistic discovery in Europe. He refined his sculptural language at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, where he learned that “talk was cheap, and sculpture was work.” That work—monumental in both spirit and form—now finds a new home here.
Floyd Tennison DeWitt
For the untrained eye in the ways of sculpture, no put-down intended, the most appropriate approach to guide one through DeWitt’s work can be found in an ancient Greek sentence: “To learn to look is to learn to see; to learn to see is to learn to understand; and to learn to understand is to learn to love.” For the artist, this is an extraordinary process. In addition to strong form, Mr. DeWitt works with the way light envelopes the piece and creates a synthesis of sense experiences that can only be termed an epiphany. Through his sculptures, one can view the world, as Duncan Phillips asserts, with rapture and wonder as an “introspective voyager.”
What You’ll Find Here
• A curated collection of his sculptures, drawings, and paintings, spanning decades of artistic evolution.
• Information on acquiring or loaning his works for exhibitions, collections, and institutions.
• Insights into his creative process, philosophy, and the influences that shaped his art.
• Updates on future projects, exhibitions, and opportunities to engage with his legacy.
For Floyd, sculpture was more than an artistic pursuit—it was a way to pay tribute to both the heroic and the macabre, to explore joy and despair, and to wrestle with the eternal presence of form. His love for the horse, for structure, for monumental expression, all live on in the works you will discover here.
As his daughter and the trustee of the Floyd DeWitt Art Trust, I invite you to explore this space, to engage with his work, and to be part of preserving and celebrating his legacy. Whether you knew him personally, collected his work, or are discovering him for the first time, this website is a place to honor a sculptor who, somewhere along the line, “without realizing, became one.”
There is no better time than this - Spring - to begin anew in sharing his work with the world.
Thank you for being here.
