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Living Legends: with a Special Tribute to Robert Bateman

October 31, 2020 - May 16, 2021
Robert Bateman (Canadian, b. 1930), Sheer Drop, 1980. Oil on board. 48 x 36 inches. JKM Collection®, National Museum of Wildlife Art. © Robert Bateman.

The third in a series of exhibitions that celebrates art from living artists represented in the Museum’s permanent collection, Living Legends with a Special Tribute to Robert Bateman, is dedicated to recognizing the strong tradition of contemporary wildlife art that continues to thrive today.

This third installment includes artists that have been added more recently to the Museum’s permanent collection, including Donna Howell Sickles, Mark Eberhard, and others. This exhibition celebrates the contributions of each artist and their interpretations of humanity’s ever-changing relationship with the natural world.

Donna Howell-Sickles (American, b. 1949), Legends, 1994. Oil on canvas. 58 x 70 inches. JKM Collection®, National Museum of Wildlife Art. © Donna Howell-Sickles.
Donna Howell-Sickles (American, b. 1949), Legends, 1994. Oil on canvas. 58 x 70 inches. JKM Collection®, National Museum of Wildlife Art. © Donna Howell-Sickles.
Robert Bateman (Canadian, b. 1930), Sheer Drop, 1980. Oil on board. 48 x 36 inches. JKM Collection®, National Museum of Wildlife Art. © Robert Bateman.
Robert Bateman (Canadian, b. 1930), Sheer Drop, 1980. Oil on board. 48 x 36 inches. JKM Collection®, National Museum of Wildlife Art. © Robert Bateman.
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Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya, Picasso, Warhol—while many of the works in this show may be small in size, they are created by some of the biggest names in the canon of art history.

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Tony Foster: Watercolour Diaries from the Green River

Through May 4, 2025

Artist Tony Foster became fascinated with the 50-million-year-old Green River fossilized fish when he first saw them in 1985. It was from these small special objects that he comprised the idea to make a group of artworks about the Green River. He began his project in 2018, creating a major painting of Steamboat Rock and the horseshoe bend from his vantage point up a 400 foot cliff. In the summer of 2019 he took a rafting trip from the Gates of Lodore to Split Rock, creating five smaller paintings en route. From these initial works he created this exhibition about, in Foster’s words: “this magnificent river.”

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