Observations, Interpretations and Imaginings:
paintings by Jon Madsen & sculpture by Linda Raynolds
September 17 – October 30, 2011
- Light Reading, oil, 36″ x 24″
- Pas de Deux, bronze, 28″ x 28″ x 6″
A Sharper View of the West: paintings by Allan Mardon & knives by Ted Larsen (May 21-September 5, 2011) in the Main Gallery.
About Ted Larsen
About Allan Mardon
- Allan Mardon at work on “Custer Battle II”
- Aztec Pattern Carving Set
Allan Mardon, ” Pegasus”
Patio Room Gallery:
Marian Kline, Horses of Course (August 6 to September 5, 2011)
About the Artist
- Marian Kline, Flamenco (detail), Dancing Horses Series, oil on board, 48″ x 24″
Pastel Painting Demo by Gary Huber
Saturday, July 30, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday, July 31, noon to 3 p.m.
A Talk about the artist Fra Dana by Dennis Kern Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
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20th Annual Holiday Show
From Grasslands to Greenland
oils by Bridger Konkel
November 27 until December 19th, 2010
6th Brinton Biennial
Reception Gallery
September 18th – October 31st
Cowboys, Horses and Dust:
The Photography of Arthur A. “Pete” Dailey
Helen Brinton Gallery
July 24 until Labor Day, 2010
Arthur “Pete” Dailey (1893-1973) spent a lifetime capturing the lively, pure spirit of the West with his camera.
Over the years, because of his trigger sense of composition and split-second timing, more than one viewer has mistaken a Dailey photograph for an oil painting. This is because Arthur Dailey was a true artist who always believed in photography as a valid art form. He had an intimate knowledge of his subject, a strong feeling for light and shadow, and a code for simplicity. He travelled light – only one uncomplicated and aged Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta camera, with a Carl Zeiss 2.8 lens – and no light meter. All this, together with quiet determination, limitless patience and a fine sense of humor, brought Pete the photographic success he enjoyed during his life time.
Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he spent nearly sixty years (1912-1972) returning to Eatons’ Ranch in Wolf, Wyoming, where he held every job from waiter to wrangler and later was a seasoned dude. It was in the Bighorn Mountains that Dailey began shooting from the saddle.
As a teenager at Eatons’, Pete Dailey learned the love of horses and how to photograph them in action and at rest. Photography was only a hobby then. Upon graduating from the University of Illinois, Dailey joined Eastman Kodak Company as a copywriter. When his boss saw the photographs that Pete had taken, he transferred him to the photography department. It was there that Dailey learned and began to develop his extraordinary technique.
This training stood him in good stead when he travelled the world with his camera in the twenties. He sold his works to such publications as National Geographic, Saturday Evening Post and other magazines, newspapers and travel publications. During this period he also made a series of camping and trail riding photographs for Kodak’s advertising program. In the depression years he photographed a myriad of subjects – babies and children, Big Ten football teams in action, and fashion models.
In the late 30s Arthur Dailey took charge of the massive advertising program for the Santa Fe Railway system. The records reveal many national awards for his Santa Fe ads and billboards which were familiar throughout the country. Several years before he retired from the Santa Fe in 1963, Dailey began exhibiting his black and white photographs on all continents. His images won top awards – gold, silver and bronze medals and blue ribbons and trophies – at virtually every exhibition he entered.
It was only after retiring that Pete could devote full time to photography. In the late 60s he branched into color and used it to depict the Western story. He was most intrigued still, with the drama of horses churning up the dust as they ran freely in the hills and mountains and across the plains. In his search for perfection, Pete was known to return repeatedly week after week to a location until the light and action were just right for the image he sought. Unlike most photographers, he tripped his shutter only once for each composition, and almost every picture he took was a winner.
Quotes:
Horses have appeal, action and power. Photographing them means fast action. Dailey was interested in what he called “the effect or the mood – what stimulates the imagination. A good picture is what pleases people.”
His working day was as long as there were horses stirrin’ up dust – Jose Izuela, Arizona Highways.
Director’s Statement:
It is indeed a pleasure to exhibit the photography of Arthur A. Dailey. His photographic imagery has been familiar to me since I first came through the area in 1982. Even before that time his advertising for the Santa Fe Railroad was influencing my visual world as I grew up in NM during the 50s and 60s. More significantly, his life and career paralleled the time of Bradford Brinton, and Dailey’s photographs closely echo the tastes of the man after whom our institution was named and upon whose collection it is founded. Dailey and Bradford Brinton first visited this area of Wyoming within a two year period. Brinton arrived from his native state of Illinois in 1910 to hunt in the Bighorns as a guest of the Horton family at the HF Bar Ranch in Saddlestring, Wyoming. In 1912, Arthur A. Dailey came with a group of his fellow classmates from the University of Illinois to work as summer employees of Eaton’s Guest Ranch in Wolf, Wyoming. Another interesting parallel is that both men served in France during World War I with Dailey serving as an ambulance driver before the U.S. became an official combatant and Brinton serving as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U. S. Army’s Quartermaster Corps.
Take your time experiencing the photography of Arthur A. Dailey, from his images of WWI France to the arid Southwest and our own Bighorn Mountains, and see if you don’t come away with a sense that he and Bradford Brinton would have had a lot to talk about over an evening meal.
River Poems: Paintings of and around
Wyoming trout streams by David McDougall
Patio Room Gallery
July 31 – September 6, 2010
Dayton, Wyoming artist David McDougall’s paintings are predominantly landscapes or riverscape studies of Wyoming trout streams, as well as figurative studies of fishing associates enjoying their favorite haunts. “Working as a flyfishing guide provides me with the unique opportunity to access great fishing venues and places to paint. These places are magic to me – catching large trout in exceptionally beautiful locations. What could be better? As a plus, I get to meet fascinating people that provide me with great experiences to long remember. Rivers speak, and I listen. I am drawn to the land and surrounding waters and paint places often passed by unnoticed.”
McDougall incorporates unique local woods to hand-craft personal, semi-rustic, frames to house many of his original images. He holds an M.F.A. degree in painting from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and worked as a self-employed technical illustrator. Currently he lists as his hobbies flyfishing, painting, family, and dogs (not necessarily in that order).
Connie Robinson:
Afoot in the Big Horns
Patio Room Gallery
June 26 – July 30, 2010
Ranching on Tongue River: Photographs by Margot Liberty
Helen Brinton Gallery
May 29 – July 18, 2010
Margot Liberty’s ranching photographs celebrate the Tongue River country, ranching, and the American cowboy, and were taken during the filming of the award winning PBS documentary “On the Cowboy Trail” which aired nationally in 1981 and is based on her book “Ray Holmes: Recollections of a Working Cowboy.” The documentary as well as the photography exhibit are based on the yearly cycle of ranch work and according to Liberty follow the seasons: “Winter, when livestock is kept close by and fed hay; spring, when calves are born, and herds are moved after branding to higher pastures; summer, with haying, fencing, and “rawhiding” (supervision of cattle from horseback); and fall, when they are moved back again downcountry for sorting and shipping to market.” The photographs on display were chosen out of more than 5000 slides Dr. Liberty took over the course of two years accompanying Ray Holmes on horseback, and documenting life on the Diamond Cross, Four Mile and 4D ranches.
Pronghorn Passage: Photography, Adventure and Storytelling by Emilene Ostlind and Joe Riis
Thursday, June 24, 2010 7:30 p.m. in the Reception Gallery.
5th Big Horn Elementary School All-Student Art Show
April 15-18, 2010 (Thursday to Sunday)
Jim Jurosek, art instructor
funded in part by the BHE Home & School Association
19th Annual Holiday Show, 2009
featuring artwork by Gregory Packard in the Main Gallery
& works by Cynthia Mohseni in the Patio Room Gallery
Special Treasures of the Brinton
BIG HORN, WY – The Bradford Brinton Memorial & Museum will reopen for the 2009 season on Saturday, May 23. The museum is open to the public Mondays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. The Brinton Memorial will also introduce free admission on Sundays, when hours are from noon until 4 p.m. The BBM&M’s summer season ends on Monday, September 7.
This season’s featured exhibition in the Helen Brinton Gallery is Special Treasures of the Brinton. This show reveals the breadth of Bradford Brinton’s personal collection, which includes items such as an original Abraham Lincoln letter, sculptures and paintings by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell and original etchings by artists as diverse as Edward Borein and Pablo Picasso. As the Spirit Moves Me, an exhibit of art by Martha Gibbs of Buffalo, will be on display in the Patio Room Gallery through June 25. A wine and cheese reception in honor of Ms Gibbs is scheduled for the afternoon of Saturday, May 23 from 3 to 5 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public.
An example of Mr. Brinton’s treasures is The Cowboy and Lady Artist, a watercolor by Montana artist C. M. Russell.
2009 Fall Show: “Special Friends of the BBM&M”
The Bradford Brinton Memorial & Museum opens its doors for the 2009 Fall Show “Special Friends of the BBM&M” on Saturday, September 12, with an artists’ reception from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Museum’s Reception Gallery. The event is free and open to the public; refreshments will be served.
This year we are featuring more than 20 artists, who in many ways are truly special friends of the museum, in the Reception Gallery. The exhibition will be on view until October 10, with gallery hours 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday.
3rd Patio Gallery Show for the 2009 Season:
August 8 to September 7 New Works by Michael Barlow, Penni Pearson Beuf, Allan Mardon, Joel Ostlind, Greg Packard, Paul Waldum and Bill Yankee.
James F. Jackson: Manifest an Essential Aesthetic
an exhibition of works by James F. Jackson in the Brinton’s Patio Room Gallery on Saturday, June 27 from 3 – 5 p.m. on display until July 30.
Martha Gibbs:As the Spirit Moves Me
7th Annual Illustrator Show
Announcing the Bradford Brinton Memorial & Museum’s 7th Annual Illustrator Show: A Boy’s Summer – Original Illustrations by Tom Spence.
Are you ready for summer? The original illustrations of “A Boy’s Summer” will help get you started thinking about great summer activities, from kite flying, to raft launching; tree house building, to fishing (of course with your home made gear), and gardening—salads were never better! Summer is also for reflection and remembrance, for crafts, and whimsy. After all, while you are watching the North Star, it may be watching you; and when you release the butterfly you’ve caught poetry, may not be far behind. A basket woven of willow, a journal so you won’t forget, a dandelion necklace to celebrate a day of fishing on the stream—the best summers have room for it all! There’s even a chapter from one of the authors, possibly Wyoming’s most famous lawyer, on winning arguments: How to Make an Argument—for a Pup (or Something Else?).
Gerry Spence and his brother Tom collaborated on this book of short essays and pen, brush, and scratched drawings to inspire first of all fathers and sons to spend more time together “discovering themselves and the world around them.” Tom says: “My brother and I are our father’s sons. But, we had a sister, Barbara, who could run faster, climb higher, and was braver and funnier than either of us. This book is for all for whom summer is a celebration of what is possible–but not necessarily useful–fun, instructive, beautiful, and, sadly, all too transitory. This book and its illustrations are for grandparents and parents, children and teachers, summer pals and members of the secret summer society of worm diggers and willow pole designers.”
According to the artist, “a picture to accompany words is nice. It lightens the burden of the writer and it gives the eye a place to rest and consider. And, it makes for a handsome book. Trying to create a visual correlate to my brother’s words was a lot of fun, and having written many of the chapters in “A Boy’s Summer” myself, made those illustrations especially fun.”
Tom Spence, born in Sheridan, Wyoming, has led a peripatetic and multi-faceted life, from his youth spent in places like Wyoming, Colorado and Bolivia (South America), to art studies, leading to an M.A. degree from the University of Wyoming in 1964, to teaching art, working for the New York City Transit Authority, to building and operating Tom’s Diner in Buffalo, Wyoming. He retired from cooking in 2006. He now subjects his faithful hound, “Ray,” to those long rambling monologues. His wife, Vikki Chenette, is an art teacher in the Johnson County School District. In 2005 two of Tom’s watercolor landscapes were included in the Brinton’s 15th Annual Holiday Show.
• This exhibition is made possible by the continuing support of the Edwin T. Meredith Foundation and a grant by the Homer A. and Mildred S. Scott Foundation.
“This year’s [exhibition] will be quite a change. I can see all sorts of follow-up activities back in the classrooms: student illustrations of their summer activities (which could include writing, either prose or poetry), individual kite construction (this could result also in some very creative writing about flying kites), team raft building, etc.”
Lynn Mavrakis, Executive Director of the Homer A. & Mildred S. Scott Foundation.
18th Annual Holiday Show: Wildscapes and Landlife
presenting oils by Ellen Dudley and pastels by Dianne Wyatt
Anywhere But Here: Travel Sketches by Bob Barlow, Summer 2008
5th Brinton Biennial, Fall 2008
Ladies’ Choice, Fall 2007 Invitational
This show was co-curated by 19 talented artists, who each chose one artist to exhibit with, making it the ladies’ choice.
Click here for the Ladies’ Choice 2007 Galleries
17th Annual Holiday Show: Native American Image Series: Rendering Levels of Reality paintings by James F. Jackson
The Works of James F. Jackson
