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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
Absoroka Sunrise
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
Animal Painting 15-1238
By Les Thomas
Located in Bozeman, MT
This animal painting is a realistically rendered bear upon a vibrant, green background. The bear is white, with a paw stepping forward in the foreground. An orange under-painting lay...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Songs in the Sky 2
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
Ready or Not
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
A Nap Under the Willow
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
A Lesson In Miracles
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
Abiquiu Sunset
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
Immortality
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
Change Agent
By Michael Dickter
Located in Bozeman, MT
My interest is in creating a permanent record of the impermanence of our world. In considering the exquisiteness of a moment shared, of a new connection, a new thought, an old memory...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Panel, Graphite
I Am Sunlight
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
Kindness
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
Transformation No. 6
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, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Tiger (after Jenssen and Landseer)
By Shelley Reed
Located in Bozeman, MT
This piece is composed of 12 framed pieces, which creates the total size of 90 x 88 inches.
Reed's primary focus has been the rich vein of Northern European art from the mid-17th t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
The Escape
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
When Spots Become Fire
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
Beneath the Balsamroot
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
Anniversary
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
Shamanka Sacred Green
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
Cultured Garden or Raging WIlderness (You Can't have it Both Ways)
By Adonna Khare
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
Compassion
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
Top Secret
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
Hibernating Bears
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
In the Cathedral of the Valley
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
Self Portrait
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, Oil, Canvas, Encaustic
Animal Painting 019/1758
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
Oil, Wood Panel
Pluck
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
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
Piper's Bird Dr. #10
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
Oil, Paper, Charcoal, Ink, Mixed Media
The Great Outdoors
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
Bison 3
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
Transformation No. 5
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, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Portrait (after Stubbs and Anon.)
By Shelley Reed
Located in Bozeman, MT
This Reed piece is of a horse painted on 6 separate sheets of oil paper. It is painted in the influence of the European artist Stubbs. This painting is oil on paper, and is monochrom...
Category
2010s Academic Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
Boba
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
See Beyond
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
Ken (Barbie)
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
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
$1,500
Counterpart
By Matt Flint
Located in Bozeman, MT
My paintings are of animals, plants, and landscapes seen through a moment of shifting focus. I paint the way I explore the rugged mountains by my house, always pushing to see what is over the next hill, searching for the unexpected.
I begin my paintings without a plan. No preliminary sketches are made; every thought is worked out directly on the canvas. Artifacts of the creative process can be seen in the rich textures, worked surfaces, and veiled light qualities created by working and reworking the piece. As one image comes into focus another is fading away, retaining a piece of the previous while hinting at what might come next.
The result of my search...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Board
By Chance
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
Turn To Follow
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
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
Beach Horse
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
Badland
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
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
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
Desire
By Michael Dickter
Located in Bozeman, MT
Artist Statement:
My interest is in creating a permanent record of the impermanence of our world. In considering the exquisiteness of a moment shared, of a new connection, a new tho...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Graphite
Animal Painting #11-0132 (Antelope)
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, Panel
Animal Painting 019/1639
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
Buffalo Gap
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
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
Mirror Mirror #3
By Casey Vogt
Located in Bozeman, MT
By placing figures into fantastical landscapes, I allow the viewer a glimpse into what might be reality, or not. This practice allows me to push the boundaries of what a past/present...
Category
2010s Pointillist Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Resin, House Paint, Panel, Archival Paper
Take A Moment to Look at the Moonlight, Even when Wolves Are Closing In
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
Lecturer
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 vict...
Category
2010s American Realist Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Big 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
Red Shamanka
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, Paper
Demolition Derby
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
Gentle Waters
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Orange Rush
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
She Stayed A While and Then Flew On
By Michael Dickter
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is an unframed original painting on wood panel with painted edges.
Artist Statement:
My interest is in creating a permanent record of the impermanence of our world. In consid...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Panel, Graphite, Oil
As You Like
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
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