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Item Ships From: Montana
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

The Mystic
By Matt Flint
Located in Bozeman, MT
Matt Flint is a painter from the mountain town of Lander, Wyoming. He grew up surrounded by woods, animals, and family. As a boy, He spent endless days creating art and exploring the fields and woods around him. Now he spends time with his family, painting, and exploring the rugged Wind River...
Category

2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, 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

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

Class Action
By Robert McCauley
Located in Bozeman, MT
Robert McCauley was born and raised in Mt. Vernon, Washington. He graduated from Western Washington University in 1969, and received his Master of Fine Arts Degree from Washington St...
Category

2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

5 of Spades
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 5 of spades. The painting is mixed media on clayboard...
Category

2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Big Sky Bronco
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

Owl Snack
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

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

Swan
By Diana Tremaine
Located in Burlingame, CA
Tremaine’s oil paintings merge the personal and universal. In her Crosscurrents series, swans and seabirds move through layered abstract fields, suggesting emotional depth and natura...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sun, Sand and Sea
By Diana Tremaine
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Sun, Sand and Sea', 2024 - seagulls stand against an abstracted beach scene in this contemporary oil on canvas painting by artist Diana Tremaine, whose series of paintings that depi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Serengeti Zebras Dr. #1
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

Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil

Untitled
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

Generations Before Us
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, Acrylic, Screen

To Say I Love You, Even As We Fall
Located in Bozeman, MT
Jess Kellner is a multi disciplinary artist who’s work has a strong focus on exploring the human condition. It’s a theme that you see in his artwork as well as his filmmaking. While ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Sinclair
By Will Lee-Ashley
Located in Bozeman, MT
Artist Statement-"I work in mixed media, laying down layers of spray paint, pencil, and traditional oil wash on wood or canvas before bringing in photography or other elements that c...
Category

2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Board

Gordon and Duke
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

Nocturne 3
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

Animal Painting 020/1873
By Les Thomas
Located in Bozeman, MT
Les Thomas' animal paintings tend to play with the relationship between culture and nature. The special encaustic wax finish that he applies, he explains, "may very well pertain to m...
Category

2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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

Lela #4
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

Vals Zebra Dr. #2
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

Little Blue Dot
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

Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Bison 1
Located in Bozeman, MT
Lisa Bostwick has had pieces exhibited at the Legion of Honor, Napa Valley Museum, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art and the de Young Museum. Her North Am...
Category

2010s Expressionist Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

Balance of Things
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

Mixed Media, Acrylic

Down by the Pier
By Diana Tremaine
Located in Burlingame, CA
'The Wind Whipped Up and They Welcomed Its Offering' - seagulls stand against an abstracted beach scene in this contemporary oil on canvas painting, 'Contemplating Progress II', by artist Diana Tremaine, whose series of paintings that depict abstracted birds and natural elements is called "Navigating Crosscurrents". The 45 x 45 inch painting beautifully bridges abstraction with realism via a calming palette of warmth and layers of paint. Tremaine's dynamic, representational and nature-centric oil paintings reflect a search for truth and meaning. The artist develops brushstrokes and marks by adding and then obliterating some of the story in a free-association editorial process of discovering what is most important and lasting. The melancholy images echo her experiences in an autobiographical fashion, but they are also universal and touch upon and evoke our collective memories like ghosts of what was. Created with a limited palette, there is visual poetry in her surfaces, including the tension that exists when simultaneously holding on and letting go. Diana Tremaine's Artist Statement for this series, 'Navigating Crosscurrents': "I am often taken aback by the might shown by tiny little songbirds managing the winds and rains that at times surround them. In my “Navigating Crosscurrents” series, the birds stand as metaphors for the human experience while the abstraction around them represents the forces - both internal and external, natural and man-made - that act around and within each of us every day. Life is a balancing act – at times breezy and light, at others cacophonous and overwhelming. These images speak metaphorically to the delicate balance and fortitude required as we journey down our respective paths." The bicoastal New York City-born artist studied and taught in both Northern and Southern California. She later moved to Montana—in a search for spiritual space and room to breathe—where she works and lives with her family, dogs and horses. 'Down by the Pier...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Good Luck
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, Glass, Epoxy Resin, Wood, Mixed Media

Unexpected Sentiment
Located in Bozeman, MT
Jess Kellner is a multi disciplinary artist who’s work has a strong focus on exploring the human condition. It’s a theme that you see in his artwork as well as his filmmaking. While ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

The Honey Apprentice
By Judy Scammell
Located in Bozeman, MT
Adirondack artist Judy Scammell is well known for immersing her viewers in the personality and essence of her animal subjects. Her unique portraits capture the intelligence and supre...
Category

2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Kingfisher
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

High Prairie Ponies
Located in Bozeman, MT
Charlie-Anne Hopkins (b. 1984) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice engages with place, materiality, and ecological transformation. They hold an MFA in Sculpture from the Cra...
Category

2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink

Riparian
By Matt Flint
Located in Bozeman, MT
Matt Flint is a painter from the mountain town of Lander, Wyoming. He grew up surrounded by woods, animals, and family. As a boy, He spent endless days creating art and exploring the...
Category

2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Resin, Mixed Media, Panel

Little Bear
By Shelley Reed
Located in Bozeman, MT
Reed borrows visual fragments from predominantly seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Northern European art, citing the artists of these works like a dutiful scholar. She copies and r...
Category

2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil

Overlook
By Kat Kinnick
Located in Bozeman, MT
Paying attention to what's outside, beyond walls, fences and myths of the modern world, my painting process inspires me to become more aware, attuned and present. I get excited notic...
Category

2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Paint, Paper, Gouache

Lava Wolf
By Kat Kinnick
Located in Bozeman, MT
Paying attention to what's outside, beyond walls, fences and myths of the modern world, my painting process inspires me to become more aware, attuned and present. I get excited notic...
Category

2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Paint, Paper, Gouache

Dramatic Snack
By Kat Kinnick
Located in Bozeman, MT
Paying attention to what's outside, beyond walls, fences and myths of the modern world, my painting process inspires me to become more aware, attuned and present. I get excited notic...
Category

2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Paint, Paper, Gouache

House Wren
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

Easy Buffalo
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, Glass, Epoxy Resin, Wood, Mixed Media

Something You'll Never Know
Located in Bozeman, MT
Patrick Oates' work explores the intersection of landscape, identity, and family history. His experimental paintings delve into queer identity, trauma, and the unknown, weaving a com...
Category

2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Panacea Night Watch
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is an original painting made with oil and acrylic with diamond dust on wood, framed. Inspired by nature and his 60 pet birds, Hunt Slonem is renowned for his distinct neo expre...
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Renewed Calls
By Josie Morway
Located in Bozeman, MT
Josie Morway is a self-taught artist who has been painting most of her life. She is a painter and designer working in Providence, Rhode Island. She has shown her artwork widely, from...
Category

2010s Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Enamel

Stag
Located in Bozeman, MT
"Nature is my muse. Animals are losing their habitat and they are, at the very least, confronted by or threatened by all of our discards. Though the birds in my paintings are not vic...
Category

2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sheep Mountain Rainbow Deer
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

Deep Time
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, Acrylic

Montana Sandhill Crane
By Josie Morway
Located in Bozeman, MT
Josie Morway is a self-taught artist who has been painting most of her life. She is a painter and designer working in Providence, Rhode Island. She has shown her artwork widely, from the DeCordova Museum in Massachusetts to the streets of Juarez, Mexico and Los Angeles. Her paintings are fragmented narratives, inspired by everyday words and phrases that bombard us - old signage...
Category

2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Angus Drawing 001
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

Roadside Attraction
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

Ladee
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, Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Epoxy Resin

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

Forgiveness
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

Mixed Media, Acrylic

Elk with Red Antlers in My Yard at 2am
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

Duty Honor Service
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

Haven
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

Bronco
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

Equine Heart Chakra
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

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

Mirror Mirror #2
By Casey Vogt
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is a painting and collage on a panel. "By placing figures into fantastical landscapes, I allow the viewer a glimpse into what might be reality, or not. This practice allows me ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings

Materials

House Paint, Panel, Archival Paper, Resin

Good Night Moth
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

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

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

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