Renowned Artist Paints Downtown Casper

Who's that artist in downtown Casper, Wyoming, happily painting away?

He's from Casper and lives here again.

His work is well known in the art community nationwide.

He even has a painting hanging in the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.

If you see him out there painting, just walk up and say hello. He loves to talk to people while he works.

Tom Loepp (born June 4, 1954) is an American figurative, landscape, and portrait painter. Following High School in lieu of going to University, he studied figure drawing from life for many years.

He started his career drawing portraits in public and eventually honed his portraiture skills at night on the streets of Greenwich Village, NYC in the late 1970s. He then also began painting plein air cityscapes of New York City.

Loepp's paintings are held in such collections as the Museum of the City of New York, Campbell's Soup, London, UK, the United States Supreme Court, Washington, DC, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Menlo Park, CA, Columbia Presbyterian's Babies Hospital, NYC, and Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA.

He has shown in numerous exhibitions including the Centennial Exhibition of the Bridge at the Brooklyn Museum, "Painting New York" at the Museum of the City of New York, "The Zen of Chaos": a one-person exhibit at the Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City, SD, and the "Big as Life" art exhibit at the Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT.

In 1988 during the renovation of the Brooklyn Bridge, Loepp painted from the top of the Bridge, paintings of the workers, and the renovation against the backdrop of New York City. Peter B. Kaplan took photos of him painting on top of the bridge, which were published.

Soon after that Tom Loepp spent two years painting views of New York City and New Jersey from the top of the World Trade Center.