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SPRING
EXHIBITIONS |
Band Series - New Gogas --
George Gogas; New Artists 2008;
Going To The Sun --
Children's Art Show; Ace of Diamonds by
Ace Powell;
Crown of the Continent: Glacier National Park Permanent
Exhibition;
John Fery; Hugh Hockaday;
Leonard Lopp;
Joseph Henry Sharp;
Earl E. Heikka; Winold Reiss; Nancy Cawdrey
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All K through 12 and Flathead Valley Community College students
admitted FREE in 2008
Thanks to a generous grant from Pacific Steel and Recycling
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Band 9 Acrylic on Canvas
48 x 48 inches |
Band
Series -- New Gogas
George Gogas
April 9 to June 7
Opening Reception
April 24
Gallery walk with Mr. Gogas at 6 PM
Members FREE, Non-Members $10
Bright, bold, large-scale works describe this modern master
from Missoula, Montana.
Best known for his Picasso and Charles M. Russell
Encounters series, Gogas has never shied away from
experimenting.
This exhibition will showcase the most recent work from his
fifty-year career. In this new series, Gogas has remained
loose, lucid, reflective, and intensely focused on the
painting that has sustained him.
The Hockaday gratefully acknowledges the generous
sponsorship of Miriam and Joseph Sample for this
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(L) People's
Choice: Running Horses by Lexy Rianda
(R) Curator's Choice: Symbolic Fruit
by Kenny Yarus |
New Artists
All-Area Student Show
April 10 to May 17
Area high schools showcase
their top art students in this engaging
annual exhibition -- a showcase for the next
generation of artists.
Two awards are given each year to
acknowledge outstanding work;
The People's Choice and the Curator's
Choice, the latter which comes with a $100
stipend for continued art education, and is
sponsored by the Guild of the Hockaday
Museum of Art.
This year the winners of both awards were
Flathead High School students, from the
classes of Susan Arthur Guthrie. |
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Going to the Sun
Children’s Art Show
April 10 to May 17
Venture into the creative minds of our
youngest artists, ranging in age from five to fifteen, as
they travel to Glacier National Park's famous Going to the
Sun Road with their imaginative visions rendered in mixed
mediums.
Besides the
member schools of the Flathead Valley, we
also have students from the Hockaday's own education programs in our annual children's art exhibition.
Read about our classes for Pre-School, Home School, After
School, and Family Fun HERE. |
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Buffalo Berry Pickers -- Oil on
Canvas |
Powell: Ace of Diamonds
Ongoing Exhibition
Asa Lynn Powell spent most of
his life in Montana. He was raised near
Glacier National Park and worked for the
Park as a wrangler early in his life. He
observed Charlie Russell at work, and was
inspired to make his own career -- painting
and sculpting traditional images such as
Cowboys, Indians, Western Landscapes,
Horses, Lodges, Cabins, and Wildlife.
He was extremely prolific, creating an
estimated 12,000 to 15,000 paintings and
sculptures in his lifetime.
Come by and see the Hockaday's new Ace
Powell donations from a formerly private
family collection! |
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Crown
of the Continent:
Glacier
National Park Exhibition
Ever-Changing, Rotating Displays
Capturing the nostalgia and grandeur of Glacier
National Park, the glory days of the Empire Builder Railroad, the Blackfeet Nation, and those who chose to settle in this
majestic part of
Montana.
Crown of the Continent features works by significant authors,
photographers, and painters as well as Park collectibles, including
vintage maps and hand-tinted photographs. While artists may change from
time to time, our west gallery always features the art and culture of Glacier
National Park.
The Hockaday Museum is proud to host this permanent
exhibition -- focused on preserving the artistic legacy of Montana and
Glacier National Park.
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Artists include Charlie Russell, Winold Reiss, Ralph Earl DeCamp, Joe Scheurle, Fred Kiser, T.J.
Hileman, Roland Reed, John Clarke,
O. C. Seltzer, Nancy Cawdrey, Nick Oberling, along
with artifacts from writer James Willard Schultz, and other luminaries. |
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NEW! Elk in
Glacier National Park by John Fery
Click HERE to see a
larger view
Oil on Canvas -- 29.5 x 13.5 in
Hockaday
Museum Art Acquisition Fund |
John Fery (1859 -
1934)
Johann Nepomuk Levy was born in Strasswalchen, Austria on March
25, 1859 and grew up in Pressburg. He enrolled at
the Vienna Academy of Art. When he moved
to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1883, Johann
legally changed his name to John Fery in
order to better adapt to his new
country.
He returned to Europe, where he married
Mary Rose Kraemer. After their first
child was born in 1885, he went back to
Milwaukee with his family. His work finally
caught the attention of Louis Hill of the
Great Northern Railway, who hired him for the "See America First" campaign.
From 1910 through 1913, Fery completed an amazing 347 major oil paintings. They decorated Glacier
National Park lodges, ticket agent offices, and depots
from St. Paul to Seattle. |
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Jackson Lake
by John Fery circa 1914
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larger view
Oil on Board -- 9 x 17.25 in
On loan
from the C.M. Russell Museum and gift of
Robert Scriver |
In 1914 Fery
was "loaned" to the Northern Pacific Railway to paint scenes
of Yellowstone National Park. The Hockaday is proudly showing the
painting Jackson Lake from this
series.
In 1925, Louis Hill again called on Fery.
The contract required Fery to produce four
to six large canvases monthly, and he spent
the next four summers painting in Glacier.
In 1929, the Ferys moved to Orcas Island, Washington to be
closer to their children. A new studio was built, but a fire
destroyed all the paintings John had finished for the Great Northern. |
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