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She comes to dream herself the cosmos
By Todd Horton
Located in Bozeman, MT
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stag
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/presen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper
$2,650
Alert
By Rocky Hawkins
Located in Bozeman, MT
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Mapping the Edges
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
Glacial Dawn
By Rocky Hawkins
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is a float framed original painting on panel. Rocky Hawkins was born in 1950 in Seattle, Washington and grew up in small towns near the Cascades Mountains. His interest in the m...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Vapos #1
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, Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Stag III (After Landseer)
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
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
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
Free (After the Black Stallion)
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 the essence of the seemingly mundane scenes around town: an old salon, a decaying house with a fence made of skis, a vintage...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled (Deer Sketch)
Located in Bozeman, MT
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Mirror Mirror #3
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
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
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
Cougar
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/presen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper
$2,650
Buck
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
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
Bears Fighting in a Lightning Storm
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 Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
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
Bright Nights
Located in Bozeman, MT
Allison McIntyre (b. 1999 West Virginia) pulls from animal imagery and digital aesthetics to respond to contemporary human-animal relations, wrestling...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Cascade Bobcat
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, Oil
Eagles and Camoflage
By Mike Piggott
Located in Bozeman, MT
Mike Piggott was born in 1963, Charlottesville, VA. He received his BA at Virginia Commonwealth University and studied at the Winchester College of Art, Winchester England. Mike Pigg...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Resting Magpie
By John Defeo
Located in Bozeman, MT
Johnny Defeo’s work belongs to the concept of souvenir, attempting to capture the experiences he has in the natural world, where he feels free and most at home. His paintings and rug...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Antelope (After Desportes)
By Shelley Reed
Located in Bozeman, MT
Reed's primary focus has been the rich vein of Northern European art from the mid-17th through 18th centuries, a period of enlightenment and profound interest in science, nature, and the animal world. Animals were assigned human traits (peacock:vanity; dog:fidelity), and nature itself was considered a symbol of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Falcon (after Landseer)
By Shelley Reed
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is a framed painting. This painting is oil on paper, and is monochromatic black.
Reed's primary focus has been the rich vein of Northern European art from the mid-17th through 18th centuries, a period of enlightenment and profound interest in science, nature, and the animal world. Animals were assigned human traits (peacock:vanity; dog:fidelity), and nature itself was considered a symbol of God...
Category
2010s Realist Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
With Her Pups (after Oudry)
By Shelley Reed
Located in Bozeman, MT
This Reed piece is of a mother dog and her pups. It is painted in the influence of the European artist Oudry. This painting is oil on paper, and is monochromatic black.
Reed's prima...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
Meaning
Nothingness #3
By Casey Vogt
Located in Bozeman, MT
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
House Paint, Panel, Archival Paper
Meaning
Nothingness #8
By Casey Vogt
Located in Bozeman, MT
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
House Paint, Panel, Archival Paper
Shadows
Located in Bozeman, MT
Allison McIntyre (b. 1999 West Virginia) pulls from animal imagery and digital aesthetics to respond to contemporary human-animal relations, wrestling...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Meaning
Nothingness #1
By Casey Vogt
Located in Bozeman, MT
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
House Paint, Panel, Archival Paper
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
Meadowlark
Located in Bozeman, MT
With a striking palette and sharp, swirling textures, Meadowlark offers a modern reimagining of this elusive bird. The stylized rendering and explosive background patterns create a s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Lazuli Bunting
Located in Bozeman, MT
With a striking palette and sharp, swirling textures, Lazuli Bunting offers a modern reimagining of this elusive marshland bird. The stylized rendering and explosive background patte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
House Wren
Located in Bozeman, MT
Vibrant and playful, House Wren with saturated color and bold, swirling patterns. The bird’s vivid form—set against a flurry of energetic strokes—celebrates both the beauty of avian ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Flicker
Located in Bozeman, MT
Vibrant and chaotic, Flicker bursts with saturated color and bold, swirling patterns. The bird’s vivid form—set against a flurry of energetic strokes—celebrates both the beauty of av...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$2,000
Coyote
Located in Bozeman, MT
A sleek and dynamic painting, Coyote distills the essence of a timeless wilderness moment into a fluid silhouette. The piece captures the instant of connection between predator and p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$4,500
Brown Crested Flycatcher
Located in Bozeman, MT
With a striking palette and sharp, swirling textures, Brown Crested Flycatcher offers a modern reimagining of this elusive marshland bird. The stylized rendering and explosive backgr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
American Bittern
Located in Bozeman, MT
With a striking palette and sharp, swirling textures, American Bittern offers a modern reimagining of this elusive marshland bird. The stylized rendering and explosive background pat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Angry at the Sunrise or Maybe Because He Cannot Move the Mountain
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 Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Continental Drift
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 Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Panel
Jar of moonlight
By Todd Horton
Located in Bozeman, MT
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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A shadow roaming like a dream
By Todd Horton
Located in Bozeman, MT
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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ranging Far and Wide with the Moon as her Guide
By Todd Horton
Located in Bozeman, MT
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 w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Adventures of Mickey and Minnie
By Mike Piggott
Located in Bozeman, MT
Mike Piggott was born in 1963, Charlottesville, VA. He received his BA at Virginia Commonwealth University and studied at the Winchester College of Art, Winchester England. Mike Pi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
And She Thought of Warm Summer Days Gone By
By Todd Horton
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is an original painting featuring a rabbit seated next to a geometric, abstracted, frozen waterfall.
Todd Horton lives and paints full time on Samis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
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
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
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
Griz with Rocket
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
Black Crowned Night Heron
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
Western Meadowlark
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
Alden Fly Catcher
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
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
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
Maybe Next Time
By Jenny Day
Located in Bozeman, MT
Jenny Day (b.1981) is a painter and sculptor who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montana - Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Vinyl, Pen, Color Pencil
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
$3,000
Death Canyon (2)
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
Dutch Oven
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
Springtime Babes
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
