In September 1892, artist Henry Herman “H.H.” Cross set up a studio at Marcus Daly’s Montana Hotel in Anaconda. There, Cross spent six months creating paintings of Daly’s racehorses, and on January 16, 1893, The Salt Lake Tribune reported that the hotel was “the Mecca...
The Northern Rockies remain a treasure trove for artistic talent, with many new and emerging artists hitting their stride. Here are a few artists catching our attention. Amanda Markel Sculptor Amanda Markel takes the fluidity of paint and translates it to bronze. Through the idea of negative...
“I hardly know myself / and this has always been true,” says the speaker in the poem “Evening Song.” Former Montana Poet Laureate Tami Haaland’s new collection of poetry, If I Had Said Beauty (Lost Horse Press, $20), is a deep and thoughtful investigation into...
Museums, galleries, and curated art events celebrating the artists of the Northern Rockies offer an intimate glimpse at life in the American West. Here are some upcoming calendar highlights: Ongoing Through August 23 Bison-tennial: From Colonization to Rematriation National Museum of Wildlife Art | Jackson, WY | wildlifeart.org Coinciding with the...
Under a bluebird sky in early spring, Jim Dolan stands amid a grove of bright red “phone booths” outside his Belgrade, Montana sculpture studio. Over the coming months, he’s planting them throughout the state beside quiet country roads, in wheat fields, in places where they...
Studio Cohab, a design firm in Bozeman, focuses on creating innovative, sustainable spaces, including cohousing developments designed to encourage connection and community living. Their work is guided by the belief that housing plays a vital role in people’s well-being, and that thoughtful design can create...
Interior designer William Peace has left his mark on homes across the West. With a soulful and timeless approach, he creates spaces that tell a story and reflect a connection back to the land. The founder and principal of Peace Design based in Bozeman and...
After seven years of dedicated work and fundraising, Rudy Autio [1926–2007] is now remembered through a newly remade steel version of his 1966 sculpture known as Signal. The new piece stands at the entrance of the University of Montana’s Miller Hall in Missoula, where Autio,...
Life’s splendor is all around, from the luminous quality of light during a Rocky Mountain sunset, to the magnificent stance of a grizzly bear lumbering along a hillside, to the transcending moment of triumph when a wild trout hooks onto a fly. These are the...
They never knew their locomotive engine had hit a bear that night. Up in the cab, amid all the engine noise and random conversation, Slug and Dillon droned down the rails, in the dark, westbound on Burlington Northern freight number 766. They didn’t feel so...