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Item Ships From: Montana
The Perpetual Journey
By Michael Dickter
Located in Bozeman, MT
This bird painting by Michael Dickter features many different types of birds. A crane or heron flies as a purple silhouette, while a small bird is fully render with a pink stripe beh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Jenny Lake Overlook (With a Northern Harrier)
By Mike Piggott
Located in Bozeman, MT
Piggott finds resonance and beauty in the familiar. His subjects, anchored in the stuff of the every day, are quietly captured in a moment of time. Each composition speaks to the art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled (Clouds)
By Theodore Waddell
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil
Animal Painting 16-1363
By Les Thomas
Located in Bozeman, MT
A silhouetted bear is the figurative focus in the painting. The bear's inside form is composed of abstracted shapes, and colors. These shapes are a mix of navy blue patterns and brig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Greener Grass
Located in Bozeman, MT
Rene Gonzalez (b.1983, Montreal, Canada) grew up first in Canada as the son of political refugees, then in Costa Rica interacting with a new tropical set...
Category
2010s Surrealist Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
2 of Clubs
By Michael Dickter
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is a painting of an abstracted and re-imagined playing card with birds and textures writing. This card in particular is the 2 of clubs. The painting is mixed media on clayboard,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
South Winds
Located in Bozeman, MT
Daphne Sweet, artist working and living in Missoula, Mt. Using acrylic, oil, clay, and fabric.
Bouncing between classical references and personal allegory, the paintings and found ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mystery Rides The Horse Tiger
By Rocky Hawkins
Located in Bozeman, MT
Enthralled with the lore and spirituality of American Indian cultures, his work often depicts these traditional subjects in nontraditional ways. Hawkins captures the raw sense of ele...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Chase
Located in Bozeman, MT
Formalism collides with a punk rock, folk art sensibility in his pop culture mash-ups that explore the liminal space between the natural and built environment. The animal kingdom act...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Montana Flora and Fauna
Located in Bozeman, MT
Kirstyn Wright is a wildlife and Western artist focusing on Texas and Southwestern imagery. She grew up an hour northwest of Fort Worth in the ranching and rodeo community of Wise Co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blue Shaman
By Rocky Hawkins
Located in Bozeman, MT
Enthralled with the lore and spirituality of American Indian cultures, his work often depicts these traditional subjects in nontraditional ways. Hawkins captures the raw sense of ele...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Shine in Silence
By Rocky Hawkins
Located in Bozeman, MT
Enthralled with the lore and spirituality of American Indian cultures, his work often depicts these traditional subjects in nontraditional ways. Hawkins captures the raw sense of ele...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Leaping From the Box
By Gordon McConnell
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is a framed painting on paper.
Biography
Creating paintings inspired by western movies and by Remington and Russell, he is a native of the West, having been born and raised in rural Colorado. He studied art at Baylor University in Waco, Texas; at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, and at the University of Colorado, Boulder where he earned a Master's Degree in 1979.
For two decades he worked as curator at the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana, before leaving in 1999 to begin work as a full-time painter and independent curator.
His work is in the collections of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming; the Art Museum of Missoula; and the Yellowstone Art Museum; the Federal Reserve Bank in Helena, Montana; and the Deaconness Medical Center in Billings, Montana.
Artist Statement
For a long time, the images in my paintings have been identifiably, even iconically, western-stagecoaches and false-front main streets, poker games and gun battles, cowboys, Indians, cavalry troopers and horses, all suspended in a choreographed matrix of dancing paint. Distinct from the traditional western genre-which inventories the minutia of cowboy gear or tells sentimental stories of rangeland romance-my paintings embody something more elemental and timeless, animated and abstract. The images tend to be stark, graphic, and charged with painterly energy. Though they are derived from fugitive television images, the paintings, as paintings, are still, silent and non-ephemeral. They register the technological transfer of primal shadows onto the electroluminescent screens of our collective consciousness, a shimmering blur of perception and memory transposed in an interchange of gesture and description, painted marks simultaneously arresting and embodying movement. I've always liked what a painter friend, Marc Vischer, wrote in 1988 about an early group of my western paintings. Now, I'm fourteen years closer to actualizing my vision for this work, and his astute remarks seem more pertinent today than they did then. He wrote in part, "For McConnell, a searing light emanates from a new desert: that of television. And from that most desolate backdrop, he salvages fragments from a movie world that spoke of honor in a land that was lawless. In a romantic sense, McConnell's works are a visual seance. Figures, like specters distorted through intense heat waves, are captured from their eternity of 24 frames a second. Their shapes and shadows are brought back into a radically different world and given substance and texture. It is an impossible attempt to freeze them, to arrest the present's ceaseless molestation of the past, to close off the continuum. Sometimes this is done darkly and thickly as an emphatic gesture of permanence. In other works a few light strokes quickly applied suggest the ephemeral nature of film and perhaps the fleeting nature of our own lives."
I have been examining new imagery in my paintings, drawing subjects from Mexican graphic novelas, modern women and men of romance and mystery from the mid-20th century, motorcycles and airplanes. The end titles of movies, stated in several languages, have inspired me to begin a new series of cross-media translations in both acrylic and watercolor. My paintings have long begun where the movies have left off. The elements of water and light co-mingle in some pieces from this series and in others which take the viewpoint of a swimmer, watching other swimmers from the wet side of this aqueous membrane, looking up toward the light.
My arrival in Montana in 1982 brought me into intimate contact with some of the most storied places of the historic West and also gave me the opportunity to study the paintings of two of the most influential codifiers of western imagery, Frederic Remington and Charlie Russell...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Moonlit
By Kat Kinnick
Located in Bozeman, MT
Illustrating wildlife and the wilderness of the High Desert of New Mexico, Kat Kinnick works to inspire a culture of connectedness to nature. She's inspired by the magic and inexplic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Long Eared Marwari
By Rocky Hawkins
Located in Bozeman, MT
Enthralled with the lore and spirituality of American Indian cultures, his work often depicts these traditional subjects in nontraditional ways. Hawkins captures the raw sense of ele...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Before Time
Located in Bozeman, MT
John Hitchcock uses the print medium with its long history of social and political commentary to explore relationships of community, land, and culture. Hitchcock’s works on paper an...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Screen, Acrylic
Transformation No. 8
By Rocky Hawkins
Located in Bozeman, MT
Enthralled with the lore and spirituality of American Indian cultures, his work often depicts these traditional subjects in nontraditional ways. Hawkins captures the raw sense of ele...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
White Out
Located in Bozeman, MT
Formalism collides with a punk rock, folk art sensibility in his pop culture mash-ups that explore the liminal space between the natural and built environment. The animal kingdom act...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Bear Bath
By Travis Walker
Located in Bozeman, MT
For the last 10 years Travis Walker has made landscape paintings about Jackson Hole, a place that never ceases to inspire him to pick up his brushes. He works on location, capturing ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Shaman of the Park
Located in Bozeman, MT
Using a mix of inspirations, El Gato thrives in his world of 8th and 9th century storytelling full of ideas of alchemy, magic, occultism, folklore, and spiritualism and blends this w...
Category
2010s Surrealist Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Maybe Next Time
By Jenny Day
Located in Bozeman, MT
Jenny Day (b.1981) is a painter and sculptor who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Vinyl, Pen, Color Pencil
Deer as Water
By Jenny Day
Located in Bozeman, MT
Jenny Day (b.1981) is a painter and sculptor who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a BA in Environmental Studies from the University of California Santa Cruz. Her exhibition record most recently includes Arte Laguna in Venice, Italy, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Korea, Museum of Art Fort Collins, Mesa Arts Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, Blue Star Contemporary Museum in San Antonio, TX, Alabama Contemporary in Mobile, AL, and Elmhurst Museum in Chicago, IL. Day's work has been supported by an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, a Puffin Foundation Grant, a Contemporary Forum Artist Grant from the Phoenix Art Museum, a Barron Purchase Award and on going support from The Process Museum. Day has participated at Greenwich House...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Vinyl, Pen, Color Pencil
In the Beating Heart Cathedral of Mile Marker 27
Located in Bozeman, MT
Suzanne Kiggins is a self-taught artist who works primarily with acrylic and gouache on paper, wood panel, and canvas. She takes inspiration from every...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Wood Panel
Fire Down Below
By Robert McCauley
Located in Bozeman, MT
"As a human exercising what little political power I might have, I struggle to campaign for nature and to remind all humans of our responsibilities as stewards of this planet. Art be...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumn
Located in Bozeman, MT
Formalism collides with a punk rock, folk art sensibility in his pop culture mash-ups that explore the liminal space between the natural and built environment. The animal kingdom act...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
A Great Leap
By Travis Walker
Located in Bozeman, MT
For the last 10 years Travis Walker has made landscape paintings about Jackson Hole, a place that never ceases to inspire him to pick up his brushes. He works on location, capturing ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Blue Feet Shaman Dancer
By Rocky Hawkins
Located in Bozeman, MT
Enthralled with the lore and spirituality of American Indian cultures, his work often depicts these traditional subjects in nontraditional ways. Hawkins captures the raw sense of ele...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Texas Summer Nights
Located in Bozeman, MT
Kirstyn Wright is a wildlife and Western artist focusing on Texas and Southwestern imagery. She grew up an hour northwest of Fort Worth in the ranching and rodeo community of Wise Co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Up Above the Silos
Located in Bozeman, MT
Suzanne Kiggins is a self-taught artist who works primarily with acrylic and gouache on paper, wood panel, and canvas. She takes inspiration from every...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Wood Panel
Fox in Dappled on a Good Hearted Friend
By John Defeo
Located in Bozeman, MT
Johnny Defeo’s work belongs to the concept of souvenir, attempting to capture the experiences he has in the natural world, where he feels free and most at home. His paintings and rug...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
What Size Would You Like To Be?
By Jenny Day
Located in Bozeman, MT
Jenny Day (b.1981) is a painter and sculptor who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Vinyl, Pen, Color Pencil
She Could Barely See
Located in Bozeman, MT
John Hitchcock uses the print medium with its long history of social and political commentary to explore relationships of community, land, and cu...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Color Pencil, Screen
Vanish
By Rocky Hawkins
Located in Bozeman, MT
Enthralled with the lore and spirituality of American Indian cultures, his work often depicts these traditional subjects in nontraditional ways. Hawkins captures the raw sense of ele...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Eklund Roundup 12
By Theodore Waddell
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Encaustic, Oil
Electric Station
Located in Bozeman, MT
Electric Coffin is coded within art history and ideologies from archetypes of mysticism. We explore found truths from modernity and a personal historical perspective. A process-drive...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Epoxy Resin, Wood, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Peach Desert Horse
By Rocky Hawkins
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is a float framed original painting on panel. Rocky Hawkins was born in 1950 in Seattle, Washington and grew up in small towns near the Cascades Mountains. His interest in the m...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Wood Panel
Up in Blue
By Thomas Swanston
Located in Bozeman, MT
It is a tall, vertical painting. The mixed media is composed of oil paint and gold leaf with smaller silver leaf birds at the bottom of the composition. The bird silhouettes look lik...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Charlie
Located in Bozeman, MT
In 1993, a window of opportunity opened as a result of several different situations that were occurring. I was participating in an Artist-in-Residence program in Yellowstone Nationa...
Category
2010s Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Animal Painting #09-6577 (bear)
By Les Thomas
Located in Bozeman, MT
Les Thomas has long recognized painting as a language in its own right, and its diversity in terms of poetic and conceptual messages, exhibited by each individual picture.
Les Thoma...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil
The Affair
Located in Bozeman, MT
Formalism collides with a punk rock, folk art sensibility in his pop culture mash-ups that explore the liminal space between the natural and built environment. The animal kingdom acts as our proxy. His paintings are noticeably devoid of the human figure, replaced by a colorful bestiary cavorting in landscapes that echo speculative fiction...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Texas Horses Dr. #19
By Theodore Waddell
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper, Charcoal, Ink
A Visit from the Electric Ravens
Located in Bozeman, MT
Suzanne Kiggins is a self-taught artist who works primarily with acrylic and gouache on paper, wood panel, and canvas. She takes inspiration from every...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Runnin Fool
By Travis Walker
Located in Bozeman, MT
For the last 10 years Travis Walker has made landscape paintings about Jackson Hole, a place that never ceases to inspire him to pick up his brushes. He works on location, capturing ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
After Dark
Located in Bozeman, MT
Formalism collides with a punk rock, folk art sensibility in his pop culture mash-ups that explore the liminal space between the natural and built environment. The animal kingdom act...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Untitled II
By Robert McCauley
Located in Bozeman, MT
When I think of where McCauley fits into American art, as a contemporary painter, sculptor and naturalistic interpreter, I place him in the same philosophical tribe as Walton Ford, A...
Category
2010s American Modern Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel
Short Stirrup
By Rocky Hawkins
Located in Bozeman, MT
Enthralled with the lore and spirituality of American Indian cultures, his work often depicts these traditional subjects in nontraditional ways. Hawkins captures the raw sense of ele...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Cutie Pies, Autumn
By John Defeo
Located in Bozeman, MT
Johnny Defeo’s work belongs to the concept of souvenir, attempting to capture the experiences he has in the natural world, where he feels free and most at home. His paintings and rug...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Bird Song
Located in Bozeman, MT
Suzanne Kiggins is a self-taught artist who works primarily with acrylic and gouache on paper, wood panel, and canvas. She takes inspiration from every...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Wood Panel
Man with Dog
By Theodore Waddell
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Encaustic, Oil
Forest Lawn
Located in Bozeman, MT
Formalism collides with a punk rock, folk art sensibility in his pop culture mash-ups that explore the liminal space between the natural and built environment. The animal kingdom acts as our proxy. His paintings are noticeably devoid of the human figure, replaced by a colorful bestiary cavorting in landscapes that echo speculative fiction...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Fox Loves in the Redwoods
By John Defeo
Located in Bozeman, MT
Johnny Defeo’s work belongs to the concept of souvenir, attempting to capture the experiences he has in the natural world, where he feels free and most at home. His paintings and rug...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Accordion Sky
Located in Bozeman, MT
Suzanne Kiggins is a self-taught artist who works primarily with acrylic and gouache on paper, wood panel, and canvas. She takes inspiration from every...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Wood Panel
Dusk Wolf
By John Defeo
Located in Bozeman, MT
Johnny Defeo’s work belongs to the concept of souvenir, attempting to capture the experiences he has in the natural world, where he feels free and most at home. His paintings and rug...
Category
2010s Expressionist Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Owl
By Michael Dickter
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is an owl's portrait. The owl is sitting in the right hand side of composition. Behind the owl is a textured white and green background. This is a mixed media painting on claybo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
These Green Pastures
By Shelley Reed
Located in Bozeman, MT
This painting is oil on 7 canvas panels, each 7 feet high and is 30 feet wide TOTAL and is monochromatic black, after Desportes, Brascassat, Weenix, Hondecoeter, Oudry, Landseer, Snyders, van Huysum, Bellini, and van Es. The title references Psalm 23...
Category
2010s Realist Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Glacial Dawn
By Rocky Hawkins
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is a float framed original painting on panel. Rocky Hawkins was born in 1950 in Seattle, Washington and grew up in small towns near the Cascades Mountains. His interest in the m...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Cowboying
By Gordon McConnell
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is a framed original painting.
Biography
Creating paintings inspired by western movies and by Remington and Russell, he is a native of the West, having been born and raised in rural Colorado. He studied art at Baylor University in Waco, Texas; at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, and at the University of Colorado, Boulder where he earned a Master's Degree in 1979.
For two decades he worked as curator at the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana, before leaving in 1999 to begin work as a full-time painter and independent curator.
His work is in the collections of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming; the Art Museum of Missoula; and the Yellowstone Art Museum; the Federal Reserve Bank in Helena, Montana; and the Deaconness Medical Center in Billings, Montana.
Artist Statement
For a long time, the images in my paintings have been identifiably, even iconically, western-stagecoaches and false-front main streets, poker games and gun battles, cowboys, Indians, cavalry troopers and horses, all suspended in a choreographed matrix of dancing paint. Distinct from the traditional western genre-which inventories the minutia of cowboy gear or tells sentimental stories of rangeland romance-my paintings embody something more elemental and timeless, animated and abstract. The images tend to be stark, graphic, and charged with painterly energy. Though they are derived from fugitive television images, the paintings, as paintings, are still, silent and non-ephemeral. They register the technological transfer of primal shadows onto the electroluminescent screens of our collective consciousness, a shimmering blur of perception and memory transposed in an interchange of gesture and description, painted marks simultaneously arresting and embodying movement. I've always liked what a painter friend, Marc Vischer, wrote in 1988 about an early group of my western paintings. Now, I'm fourteen years closer to actualizing my vision for this work, and his astute remarks seem more pertinent today than they did then. He wrote in part, "For McConnell, a searing light emanates from a new desert: that of television. And from that most desolate backdrop, he salvages fragments from a movie world that spoke of honor in a land that was lawless. In a romantic sense, McConnell's works are a visual seance. Figures, like specters distorted through intense heat waves, are captured from their eternity of 24 frames a second. Their shapes and shadows are brought back into a radically different world and given substance and texture. It is an impossible attempt to freeze them, to arrest the present's ceaseless molestation of the past, to close off the continuum. Sometimes this is done darkly and thickly as an emphatic gesture of permanence. In other works a few light strokes quickly applied suggest the ephemeral nature of film and perhaps the fleeting nature of our own lives."
I have been examining new imagery in my paintings, drawing subjects from Mexican graphic novelas, modern women and men of romance and mystery from the mid-20th century, motorcycles and airplanes. The end titles of movies, stated in several languages, have inspired me to begin a new series of cross-media translations in both acrylic and watercolor. My paintings have long begun where the movies have left off. The elements of water and light co-mingle in some pieces from this series and in others which take the viewpoint of a swimmer, watching other swimmers from the wet side of this aqueous membrane, looking up toward the light.
My arrival in Montana in 1982 brought me into intimate contact with some of the most storied places of the historic West and also gave me the opportunity to study the paintings of two of the most influential codifiers of western imagery, Frederic Remington and Charlie Russell...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Bird Concert (after Earlom)
By Shelley Reed
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is an oil painting on canvas and is monochromatic black.
Reed's primary focus has been the rich vein of Northern European art from the mid-17th through 18th centuries, a period of enlightenment and profound interest in science, nature, and the animal world. Animals were assigned human traits (peacock:vanity; dog:fidelity), and nature itself was considered a symbol of God's providence - a commonly held belief within the stratified, gentry dominated social order of the time.
Reed (b. 1958, New York, NY) lives and works in Boston, MA. She is a recipient of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Maud Morgan...
Category
2010s Realist Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
