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Item Ships From: Montana
Should Have Known It Was A One Horse Town
By David Rathman
Located in Denver, CO
David Rathman, born in 1958 in Choteau, MT, is known for his delicately rendered paintings of stereotypically male motifs from American history and contemporary culture. He focuses o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Three Figures
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is part of my private collection. It is limited in edition ,artist signed lower right and is in very good condition. Walter Becker was a German artist. Another impres...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
untitled impressionist lanscape Paris
Located in Belgrade, MT
This oil painting framed is part of my private collection. Lucien Durand was a French painter. I have several of his pieces.
HI art work has been offered at auction multiple times.
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
So Important to be Right
By David Rathman
Located in Denver, CO
David Rathman, born in 1958 in Choteau, MT, is known for his delicately rendered paintings of stereotypically male motifs from American history and contemporary culture. He focuses o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Delta Women Think the World of Me
By David Rathman
Located in Denver, CO
David Rathman, born in 1958 in Choteau, MT, is known for his delicately rendered paintings of stereotypically male motifs from American history and contemporary culture. He focuses o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
What I Tell People
By David Rathman
Located in Denver, CO
David Rathman, born in 1958 in Choteau, MT, is known for his delicately rendered paintings of stereotypically male motifs from American history and contemporary culture. He focuses o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ink
Feral Seer III
By Anne Siems
Located in Denver, CO
Anne Siems was born in Berlin, Germany. As a child, she lived for three years near Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her first extended stay in the US was as an exchange student. After finish...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Fall Light III
By Thomas Swanston
Located in Denver, CO
Thomas Swanston was born 1956 in Annapolis Md., Naval Hospital. He graduated from Hobart & William Smith Colleges 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts, with studi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Silver, Copper
Cranes at Dusk
By Thomas Swanston
Located in Denver, CO
This piece is a diptych.
Thomas Swanston was born 1956 in Annapolis Md., Naval Hospital. He graduated from Hobart & William Smith Colleges 1978 with a B...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold, Silver
Deep into Twilight
By Thomas Swanston
Located in Denver, CO
Thomas Swanston was born 1956 in Annapolis Md., Naval Hospital. He graduated from Hobart & William Smith Colleges 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts, with studi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold, Silver
portrait
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is from my private School of Paris collection of early, mid , late 20th Century artist. It is vibrant in color and a limited edition, hand signed. It is in very good ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Engraving, Lithograph
Calamity Jane
Located in Denver, CO
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 National Park. At the same time, I had recently been asked to show my artwork in nearby Livingston, Montana. All of these events resulted in a major lifestyle change. My love of the outdoors and of fly-fishing drew me to make the transition. So here I am. I live in a small town nestled in the Rocky Mountains where life is the opposite of what it was in Los Angeles. - Joe Fay
Category
2010s Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Blue Beaver
Located in Denver, CO
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 National Park. At the same time, I had recently been asked to show my artwork in nearby Livingston, Montana. All of these events resulted in a major lifestyle change. My love of the outdoors and of fly-fishing drew me to make the transition. So here I am. I live in a small town nestled in the Rocky Mountains where life is the opposite of what it was in Los Angeles. - Joe Fay
Category
2010s Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Bear Habitat
Located in Denver, CO
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 National Park. At the same time, I had recently been asked to show my artwork in nearby Livingston, Montana. All of these events resulted in a major lifestyle change. My love of the outdoors and of fly-fishing drew me to make the transition. So here I am. I live in a small town nestled in the Rocky Mountains where life is the opposite of what it was in Los Angeles. - Joe Fay
Category
2010s Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Bear Dance
Located in Denver, CO
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 National Park. At the same time, I had recently been asked to show my artwork in nearby Livingston, Montana. All of these events resulted in a major lifestyle change. My love of the outdoors and of fly-fishing drew me to make the transition. So here I am. I live in a small town nestled in the Rocky Mountains where life is the opposite of what it was in Los Angeles. - Joe Fay
Category
2010s Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Catch and Release
Located in Denver, CO
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 National Park. At the same time, I had recently been asked to show my artwork in nearby Livingston, Montana. All of these events resulted in a major lifestyle change. My love of the outdoors and of fly-fishing drew me to make the transition. So here I am. I live in a small town nestled in the Rocky Mountains where life is the opposite of what it was in Los Angeles. - Joe Fay
Category
2010s Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Lone Ranger and Bear
Located in Denver, CO
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 National Park. At the same time, I had recently been asked to show my artwork in nearby Livingston, Montana. All of these events resulted in a major lifestyle change. My love of the outdoors and of fly-fishing drew me to make the transition. So here I am. I live in a small town nestled in the Rocky Mountains where life is the opposite of what it was in Los Angeles. - Joe Fay
Category
2010s Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Bear Smile
Located in Denver, CO
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 National Park. At the same time, I had recently been asked to show my artwork in nearby Livingston, Montana. All of these events resulted in a major lifestyle change. My love of the outdoors and of fly-fishing drew me to make the transition. So here I am. I live in a small town nestled in the Rocky Mountains where life is the opposite of what it was in Los Angeles. - Joe Fay
Category
2010s Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Night Tanager
Located in Denver, CO
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 National Park. At the same time, I had recently been asked to show my artwork in nearby Livingston, Montana. All of these events resulted in a major lifestyle change. My love of the outdoors and of fly-fishing drew me to make the transition. So here I am. I live in a small town nestled in the Rocky Mountains where life is the opposite of what it was in Los Angeles. - Joe Fay
Category
2010s Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Bear Dance
Located in Denver, CO
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 National Park. At the same time, I had recently been asked to show my artwork in nearby Livingston, Montana. All of these events resulted in a major lifestyle change. My love of the outdoors and of fly-fishing drew me to make the transition. So here I am. I live in a small town nestled in the Rocky Mountains where life is the opposite of what it was in Los Angeles. - Joe Fay
Category
2010s Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Fly Fishing With Dog Missouri River Montana Western Landscape Original Oil
Located in Whitefish, MT
"Missouri River" by Madison Apple. Original Oil Painting on Canvas, 9" x 12", 16" x 19" framed. Depicting a fly fisherman and dog wading on the Missouri River in Montana on a colder ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Small War Party Original Kevin Red Star Native American Crow Indian Painting
By Kevin Red Star
Located in Whitefish, MT
"Small War Party - Study" by Kevin Red Star. These are Scouts that stay fairly close to camp watching over the people. Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas, 20" x 16", 23" x 19" (framed in a deep floater). Signed upper right. Comes ready to hang with wire.
Kevin Red Star’s art is honored throughout Native America for its authenticity. It presents a shining vision of centuries-old Crow...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Above the Oxbow
By Danielle Winger
Located in Denver, CO
"In my paintings I take on the role of poet-painter, creating sentimental and idealized landscapes that are devoid of any figures or formal devices traditionally used to tell a story...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Step from Star to Mountain
By Danielle Winger
Located in Denver, CO
"In my paintings I take on the role of poet-painter, creating sentimental and idealized landscapes that are devoid of any figures or formal devices traditionally used to tell a story...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Velvet Cry
By Danielle Winger
Located in Denver, CO
"In my paintings I take on the role of poet-painter, creating sentimental and idealized landscapes that are devoid of any figures or formal devices traditionally used to tell a story...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Shows Little on Parade Horse on the Red Road Kevin Red Star Original Acrylic
By Kevin Red Star
Located in Whitefish, MT
"Shows Little on Parade Horse on the Red Road" by Kevin Red Star. He is a Crow Elder that teaches the young ones to parade. Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas, 60" x 48", 63" x 51" (framed).
Kevin Red Star’s art is honored throughout Native America for its authenticity. It presents a shining vision of centuries-old Crow...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Tony Tony
Located in Denver, CO
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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Tiger King
Located in Denver, CO
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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Canvas, Wood
untitled woman in boudoir original lithograph
By Louis Berthomme Saint-Andre
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is part of my private collection and in very good condition. It is original, numbered and signed by the artist in the plate and on the print. Guilde de la Gravure.
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Lithograph
untitled abstract village with horses , original lithograph
Located in Belgrade, MT
This piece is from my private collection of 20th Century -21st Century artists, many of which are from the School of Paris era. Pelayo produced this lithograph in colors. The Latin A...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Lithograph
Scene Champretre, original lithograph, Epreuve d' Artiste
By Pierre-Eugène Clairin
Located in Belgrade, MT
This piece is part of my private collection of artist lithographs, etchings and engravings from the 20th Century. It is a limited edition Epreuve d' Artiste.
Pierre Eugene Clairin...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Illustration Board, Engraving, Lithograph
Unknown.... Woman at Market, original lithograph
By Dany Lartigue
Located in Belgrade, MT
This piece is part of my private collection, it is in very good condition . Limited edition signed by the artist.
It is brilliant in colors of yellows and browns.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
New Sun III
By Robert McCauley
Located in Denver, CO
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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel
Ode to John Franklin
By Robert McCauley
Located in Denver, CO
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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel
Encounters II
By Robert McCauley
Located in Denver, CO
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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel
Shellacked Cowboy XV
Located in Denver, CO
Like the Westerns I grew up with, my own work is camouflaged in a veil of nostalgia. The figures in my work are often portrayed against a stark background. This forces the viewer to recognize the myth before the critique exposes itself. I work from observation and my imagination using watercolor and traditional printmaking methods. The figurative images I create are heavily researched. By using the West, a subject that I am both familiar with and continue to question, I aim to engage with our inherent perceptions of the past and the myths embedded within. - Jed Webster Smith
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Wood Panel
Untitled II
By Robert McCauley
Located in Denver, CO
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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel
Shellacked Cowboy XIII
Located in Denver, CO
Like the Westerns I grew up with, my own work is camouflaged in a veil of nostalgia. The figures in my work are often portrayed against a stark background. This forces the viewer to recognize the myth before the critique exposes itself. I work from observation and my imagination using watercolor and traditional printmaking methods. The figurative images I create are heavily researched. By using the West, a subject that I am both familiar with and continue to question, I aim to engage with our inherent perceptions of the past and the myths embedded within. - Jed Webster Smith
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Wood Panel
Hunting Party Sam Jusics Original 20th Century Sporting Art Painting
Located in Whitefish, MT
Hunting Party Sam Jusics Original 20th Century Sporting Art Painting 30" x 40", 40" x 50" Framed.
Provenance: Purchased from gallery in Beaufort, SC in 2002.
An excellent representat...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shellacked Cowboy XIV
Located in Denver, CO
Like the Westerns I grew up with, my own work is camouflaged in a veil of nostalgia. The figures in my work are often portrayed against a stark background. This forces the viewer to recognize the myth before the critique exposes itself. I work from observation and my imagination using watercolor and traditional printmaking methods. The figurative images I create are heavily researched. By using the West, a subject that I am both familiar with and continue to question, I aim to engage with our inherent perceptions of the past and the myths embedded within. - Jed Webster Smith
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Wood Panel
Can You See 'Em, Cowboy on Horseback, Oil Painting on Canvas, Western Art
Located in Whitefish, MT
"Can You See 'Em" by Krystii Melaine
Oil on Canvas
12" x 12"
19" x 19" Framed
Krystii Melaine is a figurative and portrait artist on a journey of artistic exploration of the American West and beyond. Classically trained in the realist tradition of the old masters, she captures the essence of each personality or creature and provides us with a glimpse into their lives, using the richness and subtlety of oil paints on linen to tell their stories. In recent years she has expanded her repertoire to delve into the nuances of abstraction. Krystii Melaine’s paintings are regularly featured in museum exhibitions including Quest For The West at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, The Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, and Night of Artists at the Briscoe Western Art Museum. She has won many awards and her work has featured in numerous magazines and several books. She is a Master Signature Member of the American Women Artists...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Peche lithograph (woodcut)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Belgrade, MT
Raoul Dufy was an important multifaceted French artist who worked in a variety of media including painting, print making, mural design, theatre and costume design, upholstery, wall paper, ceramics, and fabric. In his paintings he often depicted the circus, equestrian scenes, Parisian cafe life, yachting scenes, colorful views of the French Riviera, and musical events in a distinctive style that combined the various artistic trends of the day, most notably Fauvism. Born in 1877 in Le Havre France, and after a year of military service in 1900, Dufy won a scholarship to the Ecole Nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts, in Paris, studying under Othon Friesz. He exhibited extensively throughout Paris and France at the various salons, including the Salon des Tuileries. For the 1937 Exposition Internationale in Paris, Dufy completed one of the largest paintings ever conceived, a 250...
Category
Early 20th Century Fauvist Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph, Woodcut
Not Just a Dreamer
By David Rathman
Located in Denver, CO
David Rathman, born in 1958 in Choteau, MT, is known for his delicately rendered paintings of stereotypically male motifs from American history and contemporary culture. He focuses o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Old Town Feelings
By David Rathman
Located in Denver, CO
David Rathman, born in 1958 in Choteau, MT, is known for his delicately rendered paintings of stereotypically male motifs from American history and contemporary culture. He focuses o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Fire Down Below
By Robert McCauley
Located in Denver, CO
"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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Alchemy of Belief
By Diana Tremaine
Located in Burlingame, CA
Diana Tremaine’s large-scale, dynamic, figurative oil paintings reflect a search for truth and meaning in the human experience. She develops brushstrokes and marks by adding and then...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rio Hondo, Cowboy Oil Painting on Canvas, Western Art
By Dennis Lyall
Located in Whitefish, MT
Rio Hondo by Dennis Lyall
Oil on Canvas
16" x 24"
21" x 30" (framed)
Dennis Lyall is an artist and illustrator with more than 40 years of experience in working with many of the bigg...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Across the Mancos Canyon
By Billy Schenck
Located in Denver, CO
One of the originators of the Western pop art movement, Billy Schenck incorporates techniques from photorealism with a pop art sensibility to both exalt and poke fun at images of the West. Schenck is known for utilizing cinematic imagery reproduced in a flattened, reductivist style, where colors are displayed side-by-side rather than blended or shadowed. In the August 2014 issue of SouthwestArt magazine, his work was described as “a stance … a pendulum between the romantic and the irreverent.”
Schenck’s artwork is now in 48 museum collections, including Smithsonian Institution, Denver Art Museum, The Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Booth Western Art Museum, Tucson Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum, the Mesa Southwest Museum, Museum of the Southwest, Midland TX...
Category
2010s Pop Art Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Cowboying
By Gordon McConnell
Located in Denver, CO
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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
High Plains Drifter
Located in Denver, CO
This is an unframed original painting on wood panel.
Micheal Ousley is a native of Appalachia, originally from the coalfields of Southeastern Kentucky. Having traveled all around the Western coal towns of Virginia, West Virginia and the Blue Ridge as well, he has formed a deep connection to the mountains. “My father was a coal miner and many of my uncles and cousins worked in mining or farming. I tend to view my paintings as ballads for the rough living and hardscrabble existence found in the Central Appalachian Coal region. The Media has always jumped at the opportunity to show poverty and decay in the coalfields of Kentucky. I view my work as being built around a pathos and understanding of the downtrodden and discarded; a poetry for the underdog."
Mike says, "I decided I wanted to take my painting back to the way I created images as a child, based on memory and simplified. My biggest inspiration is the visionary and Folk art of Kentucky and other Southern Folk artists. I spent a good deal of time in the Kentucky Folk...
Category
2010s Folk Art Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Ro-dee-o
By Gordon McConnell
Located in Denver, CO
This painting comes in a black wooden frame.
Biography
Creating paintings inspired by western movies and by Remington and Russell, he is a native of the West, having been born and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Add It Up
By David Rathman
Located in Denver, CO
David Rathman is known for his sensitively rendered paintings of stereotypically male motifs from American history and contemporary culture.
He was the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Arrangement #2
By June Glasson
Located in Denver, CO
This is a framed original painting. June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, and designer. She live in Laramie, WY. Her paintings have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
Half and Half 2
By June Glasson
Located in Denver, CO
This is an unframed original painting. June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, and designer. She live in Laramie, WY. Her paintings have been exhibited at the National Portrait Galle...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
Mr. Frontier
By June Glasson
Located in Denver, CO
This is an unframed original painting. June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, and designer. She live in Laramie, WY. Her paintings have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London, Nature Morte Gallery in Berlin, and various New York and stateside galleries and museums. They have also appeared in New American Paintings, the Paris Review, the Wall Street Journal, Guernica, Versal, Asymptote, People, Domino, June Glasson Herself, Sand Journal, and Diner Journal as well as the film “My Idiot Brother.” She has also designed and fabricated exhibitions and displays for the Center for Urban Pedagogy, Bergdorf Goodman, Bumble and Bumble, and Crumpler Bags. She is a co-founder of the Wyoming Art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
Mountains and Plains
By June Glasson
Located in Denver, CO
This is an unframed original painting. June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, and designer. She live in Laramie, WY. Her paintings have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London, Nature Morte Gallery in Berlin, and various New York and stateside galleries and museums. They have also appeared in New American Paintings, the Paris Review, the Wall Street Journal, Guernica, Versal, Asymptote, People, Domino, June Glasson Herself, Sand Journal, and Diner Journal as well as the film “My Idiot Brother.” She has also designed and fabricated exhibitions and displays for the Center for Urban Pedagogy, Bergdorf Goodman, Bumble and Bumble, and Crumpler Bags. She is a co-founder of the Wyoming Art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
Study for the Wrong Side of Paradise
By Billy Schenck
Located in Denver, CO
One of the originators of the Western pop art movement, Billy Schenck incorporates techniques from photorealism with a pop art sensibility to both exalt and poke fun at images of the West. Schenck is known for utilizing cinematic imagery reproduced in a flattened, reductivist style, where colors are displayed side-by-side rather than blended or shadowed. In the August 2014 issue of SouthwestArt magazine, his work was described as “a stance … a pendulum between the romantic and the irreverent.”
Schenck’s artwork is now in 48 museum collections, including Smithsonian Institution, Denver Art Museum, The Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Booth Western Art Museum, Tucson Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum, the Mesa Southwest Museum, Museum of the Southwest, Midland TX...
Category
2010s Pop Art Montana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
We Took Them for Soldiers
By Gordon McConnell
Located in Denver, CO
This is a framed painted.
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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
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