50 Works for 50 Years: The Hockaday Collection
A Community-Curated Exhibition The Hockaday has developed a remarkable permanent collection over the last 50 years, including painting, sculptures, dr...
C.M. Russell Museum Announces 2019 Members of the Russell Skull Society of Artists
The C.M. Russell Museum is proud to welcome four new artists into the Russell Skull Society of Artists. Formed in 2013 to recognize a group of disting...
November is Members’ Month!
November is an exciting time to be a member of the Hockaday. The month kicks off with the opening of our Annual Exhibit, Members’ Salon, dedica...
Engel & Völkers Expands Its Northwest Presence With New Big Sky Shop
Engel & Völkers today announced its new real estate shop in the prime Big Sky resort market of Montana, strengthening its existing presence in th...
From the Editor: The Secret of Fall
Watching summer dwindle away is part of life in the Northern Rockies, because, as we all know, it’s fleeting. And it’s busy: Fly fishing, hiking, ...
Round Up: The Migratory Bird Treaty Act Turns 100
In 1918, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act was designed, according the the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to “make it illegal for anyone to take, posse...
Round Up: The recovering America’s Wildlife Act Moves ahead
A new bipartisan Senate bill that would authorize more than $1 billion every year to critical state-level fish and wildlife conservation work is drawi...
Round Up: Fall Festivals
The harvest season and end-of-summer sunshine is celebrated throughout the Northern Rockies with a variety of family-friendly events. McIntosh Apple D...
Round Up: A Bird Hunter’s Table: Tips for cooking game birds
Growing up in Sun Valley, Idaho, with a father who was passionate about bird hunting, Sarah Tilt learned how to use a shotgun at an early age. But it ...
Round Up: Spirits of the West: Ghost Towns
Vestiges of the lawless wilds of the Old West, the ghost towns of the Northern Rockies are the perfect backdrop to a fall weekend road trip. And with ...
Round Up: Fall Fishing Forecast
Fishing is a year-round endeavor, but the fall season is my favorite. Low, clear, and cold water makes for accessible fishing and hungry trout. This f...
Get Out of Town
THE PLAN WAS HATCHED LESS THAN 24 HOURS BEFORE DEPARTURE. It had been too long since we’d been out. Enough of town, traffic, chores, work, and deadl...
Books: Reading the West
Jim Williams’ fascinating new natural history book, Path of the Puma: The Remarkable Resilience of the Mountain Lion (Patagonia, $24.95), examines t...
A Profile of Obsession
ELLIOT GARFIELD IS A MAN OUT OF TIME. Not hourly time, though as a UPS delivery driver, he is in a perpetual dust cloud of a hurry on his route of gra...
Royal Tine Guide School
THE ALARM CHIMES AT 6 a.m. I hit snooze for half an hour before I’m finally roused from my cot by the sound of hooves. The metal roof of the classro...
Working Dogs: A Nose for Conservation
ON A COLD, CLOUD-HEAVY SPRING DAY in Southwest Montana’s Paradise Valley, a Belgian malinois named Pepin trots from one pile of elk scat to the next...
Sharptail
ALTHOUGH THE EVENTS TOOK PLACE NEARLY 50 YEARS AGO, I still remember them as vividly as yesterday. A warm September sun hung suspended in the endless ...
Roaming With Wild Horses
I’M STANDING ON THE CHUNK OF MADISON LIMESTONE in a meadow filled with grass and midsummer flowers. Asters, yarrow, buckwheat, prairie smoke with it...
Western Design: Town & Country
Whitefish Lake, northwest Montana’s spectacular high-altitude destination, has been drawing out-of-staters for generations. Seven miles long and onl...
Outside: One Missed Step
You don’t have to be crazy to hunt mountain goats, but being so doesn’t hurt your chances for success. Think about it: Goats spend most of their l...
Local Knowledge: Duckworth
A March wind blows over the Beaverhead Valley and piles dark clouds on the horizon, harbingers of the coming snow. Tucked into a fold of land outside ...
Images of the West: Alfred Mathews
When the Confederate army fired on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, Alfred Mathews — a man opposed to slavery and secession — found himself in a dis...
Dining Out: The Wassweiler Dinner House and Pub
If Marci Andersen was the bragging type, she might tell you that her restaurant serves the best steak in Montana. But she’s humble and smart; braggi...
Back 40: Siloed
As if not everything had rusted, dry wheat bent from seed. A split rail fence, its three crows panting. Each mountain division was lit up or about to ...
Artist of the West: John C. Gawne
In terms of career transitions, oil painter John C. Gawne has experienced perhaps one of the more drastic ones: from 20 years as an accountant and sto...
Sage Lodge Opens in Paradise Valley with a Locals’ Special
Situated on more than a mile of Yellowstone riverfront, Sage Lodge recently opened its doors as a year-round destination for fly fishermen, outdoor en...
Sculptor Tim Shinabarger’s New Works for Exclusive Show at Legacy Gallery
Unbounded in bronze, free within the sharp-angled landscape, deepened by a flight-or-fight instinct, Tim Shinabarger’s sculptures never slip the kno...
Six Experiences You Can Only Have in Cody Yellowstone
When fall comes to northwestern Wyoming’s Yellowstone Country, the rugged region transforms from a family vacation hot spot to an adventure-rich ad...
Bozeman Film Society Celebrates 40 Years of Bringing Independent Film
This fall, The Bozeman Film Society (BFS), originally known as the Bozeman Film Festival (BFF), celebrates its 40th anniversary with the launch of a l...
Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival Celebrates Cuisine and Wine
Named one of the West’s best fall festivals by Travel + Leisure, the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival is known for its popular artistic offerings cen...
Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation Celebrates Intern Graduation
On Monday, August 20 from 5-7 pm, the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation will host “Stories from the Bob: Youth Edition” at Casey’s in Whitefish...
My Indiana Muse: A Documentary on Artist Robert Townsend
For more than 20 years, artist Robert Townsend has given new life to the Americana landscapes. From matchbooks and candy wrappers, to buildings and au...
From the Editor: Creating a Sense of Place
“An individual is not too distinct from his place. He is his place.” — Gabriel Marcel If you think about it, much of the art we see is connected...
Round Up: Serving Up Art and Culture
Built 100 years ago and designed by Fred Willson — an architect who played a significant role in creating many of the historic structures in downtow...
Round Up: Tippet Rise Art Center
By Peter and Cathy Halstead | Princeton Architectural Press | $60 Tippet Rise Art Center is the first book about the Montana-based arts venue, Tippet ...
Round Up: Big Sky’s Public Art Installation: The One-and-Only Montana Butterfield
The Arts Council of Big Sky is launching the organization’s first major public art installation: a larger-than-life bronze horse by internationally ...
Round Up: Hands-On & How-To Arts
As we settle into the end of summer, a craft session is one way to ease the transition into the onset of autumn and the inevitable winter ahead. In th...
Round Up: Art Shows & Events
From design showcases and auctions to annual exhibits and festivals, here are some inspiring art events to catch in the coming months throughout the r...
Ones to Watch
THEY VARY IN THEIR STYLES, from narrative realism to impressionistic impasto, yet the artists featured here are united in their efforts to paint what ...
For the Love of Cold-Water Wilderness
OBSERVATION IS CRITICAL TO THE CREATIVE PRACTICE of artist, writer, and naturalist James Prosek. Observation, and what American biologist E.O. Wilson ...
Sculptor and Patineur
ANYONE WHO’S EVER STRUGGLED WITH RELATIONSHIPS would probably benefit from studying the dynamic between bronze sculptors and their patineurs. Be...
Travis Walker
THROUGH HIS DEPICTION OF SIMPLIFIED LANDSCAPES, painter Travis Walker speaks to a problematic perspective of the modern West. By reducing the intricac...
Horse Portraits
THEY’RE FAST, ELEGANT, SENSITIVE, AND STRONG, with wild manes and tails that touch the grass. At times they seem otherworldly, mythological, lik...
Julia Galloway: Montana’s Voice for Clay
THE PROBLEM WITH INTERVIEWING JULIA GALLOWAY is that she’d rather talk about anything other than herself. Anything, that is, having to do with cla...
Carrie Ballantyne
IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE AMBLING in the vicinity of Wyoming Blue Eyes, the painting by representational artist Carrie Ballantyne, prepare for a double take...
Books: Reading the West
David Quammen’s new book, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life (Simon & Schuster, $30), explores the world of contemporary molecular ...
Western Design: Radical Remodel on Rock Creek
The home, a modest three-bedroom cabin with a small wooden deck and brick fireplace, was built in the middle of the last century in the style of the t...
Outside: The Great Porcupine Mystery
Like most family photo albums, mine contains pictures of me as a child sitting next to roadkill. Now, before you dismiss this as just another small-bo...
Local Knowledge: Home is Where Montana is
Bruce Anfinson just might be the most “Montana” of all the Montanans knocking around Big Sky Country. He’s the kind of guy who can serve 60 peop...
Images of the West: Artful History
He was long-haired, full-bearded, and could have been a veteran of the 1960s. He’d been a champion of socialist causes, a chronicler of war yet an a...