Montana - Paintings

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...

This mixed media painting revolves around flying saucers, pigeons, boats, horses, figures and other abstract forms. There is every kind of color on this piece, but non of these colors are very saturated. The composition has an overall "collage" feel. Please contact for more images. Casey McGlynn grew up in rural Ontario, where he would sit in front of the television and draw on old grocery bags and scrap paper tirelessly, creating self-taught surrealist pop art. McGlynn attended the Ontario College of Art and Design, however, he was not enrolled in the visual arts. McGlynn’s work contains reoccurring symbols such as animals from his upbringing, birds from his studio window sill and numbers that derive from when he memorized math tables in his early years. McGlynn’s work is as much about revealing the truth and expressing emotions as it is about documenting actual fact. His paintings reach into a wealth of historical influence and skill. Creating symphonic glyphs on rudimentary, raw quilt-like patterns, the works simultaneously evoke rural Southern quilts...

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...

A very nice painting by Patrick Webster of a woman laughing.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"Landscape provides Gregory Hardy with an inexhaustible source of mystery. His paintings are not representations of actual landscape as much as they are surrogates for the artist’s e...

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...

Nerhbass’ paintings focus on style as a sublime element of tension within beauty. Thematically they evoke modern dilemmas of what it means to see and be seen in a manner that is simu...

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 the essence of the seemingly mundane scenes around town: an old salon, a decaying house with a fence made of skis, a vintage trailer park. His work is influenced by the work of American regionalists Edward Hopper and Grant Wood, Japanese printmaking, and German Expressionism. Travis Walker is the founder and director of Teton Artlab, a nonprofit arts organization that provides studio space for artists. He was born in 1976 in Tokyo, Japan, and earned his BFA in Painting and Printmaking in 2000 from Virginia Commonwealth University. Recent group exhibitions include the 2012 Western Visions Show and Sale and the 2013 and 2012 Takin' It to the Streets Art Fair, among many others. Solo exhibitions include "American Dreams" in 2012 at Cowboy Coffee...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

This is an unframed original painting on paper. Rocky Hawkins was born in 1950 in Seattle, Washington and grew up in small towns near the Cascades Mountains. His interest in the myst...

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...

June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, and designer. She lives in New York. 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...

This is a painting and collage on a circular panel. "By placing figures into fantastical landscapes, I allow the viewer a glimpse into what might be reality, or not. This practice a...

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...

Bruce Lauritzen has been making art since he was old enough to scribble on walls. At eight years old he was introduced to adult figure drawing at the College of Marin ''barn'' under ...

Jeff Nachtigall is a Canadian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1970. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Mayberry Fine Art, Winnipe...

Crystal Latimer employs the method to create depth. Inspired by 16th centenary tapestry, she combines western iconography with the symmetrical design elements of medieval artisans. T...

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...

This is a very active and textured painting. There are figures outline in red while guitars fall in line with them. There are various animals (bears, birds, cats) littered across the canvas. Each subject matter is contained by its own box of color, as if claiming its real estate on the canvas. The background colors are mostly blue. To view more images, pelase send us a message. Casey McGlynn grew up in rural Ontario, where he would sit in front of the television and draw on old grocery bags and scrap paper tirelessly, creating self-taught surrealist pop art. McGlynn attended the Ontario College of Art and Design, however, he was not enrolled in the visual arts. McGlynn’s work contains reoccurring symbols such as animals from his upbringing, birds from his studio window sill and numbers that derive from when he memorized math tables in his early years. McGlynn’s work is as much about revealing the truth and expressing emotions as it is about documenting actual fact. His paintings reach into a wealth of historical influence and skill. Creating symphonic glyphs on rudimentary, raw quilt-like patterns, the works simultaneously evoke rural Southern quilts...

Sarah Winkler is a British born, American contemporary landscape painter who has lived most of her life abroad in countries such as Malawi, Africa and Brunei, Borneo. She has lived in the US since 1989 and has spent over two decades living and working in California and Colorado. She studied Art and Earth Science at William Paterson University and combines both subjects in her landscape and environmental artworks. The artist is best known for her monumentally scaled, color rich, luminous paintings that interpret the geological storied past and eventful present of the formation of the American wilderness landscape. She incorporates ground water, crushed rock and materials from the landscape in her paintings to create moments of connection, exploration and discovery. Winkler has exhibited in solo and group shows nationally in galleries, regional museums and art fairs since 2004. Her work was recently showcased at the LA Art Fair, Art Aspen and the Jackson Hole Art...

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...

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...

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...

Todd Horton lives and paints full time on Samish Island, Washington. His work involves landscape and wildlife with elements of chance that play between realism and abstraction. His work was recently featured in Seattles' Davidson Gallery "Exceptional" show and awarded a "Merit of Excellence" from a PONCHO Art Auction. Horton's paintings were also featured at the Museum of Northwest Art...

"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/presen...

This is an unframed original painting on paper. Rocky Hawkins was born in 1950 in Seattle, Washington and grew up in small towns near the Cascades Mountains. His interest in the myst...

"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...

This is a framed original painting. Bayard Hollins' work explores the link between abstraction and figurative representation. Although the lines back to classical realism can be trac...

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...

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...

This is a framed original painting. Bayard Hollins' work explores the link between abstraction and figurative representation. Although the lines back to classical realism can be trac...

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...

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...

"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...

Jennifer Nehrbass is a painter living and working in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She was born in West Bend, Wisconsin in 1970. She received her B.S. in Art and Textile Design from the U...

Jennifer Nehrbass is a painter living and working in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She was born in West Bend, Wisconsin in 1970. She received her B.S. in Art and Textile Design from the U...

Bayard Hollins' work explores the link between abstraction and figurative representation. Although the lines back to classical realism can be traced, Hollins' approach is absolutely ...

Bayard Hollins' work explores the link between abstraction and figurative representation. Although the lines back to classical realism can be traced, Hollins' approach is absolutely ...

"My work is about Place. There has always existed within me an urgency to define myself through place that stems from an upbringing full of uprooting and re homing. In the absence o...

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 B...

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...

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 the essence of the seemingly mundane scenes around town: an old salon, a decaying house with a fence made of skis, a vintage...

Acrylic paint on raw canvas.

Tracy Stuckey received his BFA in painting from Florida State University and his MFA from the University of New Mexico. He has exhibited his work extensively throughout the United St...

Allison McIntyre (b. 1999 West Virginia) pulls from animal imagery and digital aesthetics to respond to contemporary human-animal relations, wrestling with issues such as the climate...

June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, and designer. She lives in New York. 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...

June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, and designer. She lives in New York. 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...

June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, and designer. She lives in New York. 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...

Jeff Nachtigall is a Canadian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1970. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Mayberry Fine Art, Winnipe...

Electric Coffin is coded within art history and ideologies from archetypes of mysticism. We explore found truths from modernity and a personal historic...

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 B...