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CURRENT
EXHIBITIONS |
Losing a Legacy: A Photographic
Story of Disappearing Glaciers by Dan Fagre;
Ace of Diamonds by Ace Powell in the
Lower Gallery; Quiver -- David Secrest;
Crown of the Continent: Glacier National Park
Permanent Exhibition; Adolph Heinze; Hugh Hockaday;
Earl E. Heikka; Winold Reiss; O.C. Seltzer;
Ralph
Earl DeCamp;
Charles M. Russell; Mark Ogle; Nicholas Oberling;
Joe Scheuerle
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All K through 12 students admitted FREE in 2009
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Exhibition Gallery Guide
(PDF)
This photographic exhibition blends the science of
climate change research with the aesthetic of
landscape photography from Glacier National Park.
Losing a Legacy contrasts scanned images of
prominent glaciers in the Park from the 1920�s with
recent photographs of the same glaciers .
Dan Fagre is Research Ecologist and Climate Change
Research Coordinator for the Northern Rocky Mountain
Science Center of the U. S. Geological Survey. He is
stationed at Glacier National Park, Montana and is a
faculty affiliate at the University of Montana and
Montana State University.
Fagre has worked for the past 15 years with staff
and collaborators in the Northern Rocky Mountains to
understand how global-scale environmental changes
affect our mountain ecosystems.
He helped establish the Western Mountain Initiative,
a program to tie mountain science across different
areas.
This Exhibition is sponsored by the Glacier Fund,
U.S. Geological Survey, BNSF Railway, and the
Hockaday Museum of Art. |
Losing
a Legacy:
A Photographic Story of Disappearing Glaciers
Photos by Dan
Fagre
January 22 to April 10,
plus
May 19 to Sept. 6, 2009
Dan Fagre will speak at an encore reception
on April 2nd, 5 to 7pm
(L to R) Grinnell
Glacier 1923 and 2006 |
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Powell: Ace of Diamonds
Permanent Exhibition
Now Located on
our Lower Gallery!
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.
From large landscapes of Blackfeet on the
Great Plains to intimate miniatures of
horses, animals, and the toilers of the
Western lands, Powell recorded the beauty
surrounding the hardscrabble life of
pioneer-era Montana as railroads and
automobiles steadily brought modern times
and modern problems.
The Hockaday Museum's
Ace Powell originals are on public display in great part due to
the generosity of the Pat & Don McClarty and
Roger & Deane Claridge. |
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Mark Ogle was born in Helena,
Montana in 1952. Raised and educated in
Kalispell, his first venture into the art
business was to help the Ace Powell Bronze
Foundry. After three years of military
service in Germany, Mark committed himself
to a career as a painter. He studied art
with Joe Abbrescia, Robert Cavanaugh, Ace
Powell, and Bud Helbig. In 1982 Mark was the
first recipient of the Ace Powell Memorial
Award. From 1987 thru 1998 Mark was placed
four times in the Top 100 of the prestigious
Arts for the Parks competition. This
competition is sponsored by the National
Parks Academy of the Arts and is a national
competition. Mark is among only a handful of
American artists to receive this award four
times. Selected as a delegate to represent
Montana and the Arts by the Montana Chamber
of Commerce he traveled to Komoto, Japan as
an honored guest. |
New
Acquisitions
Where's Mama?
(Under Grinnell Glacier)
By Mark Ogle -- Oil on Canvas 47" x 29"
Thanks to
all contributors to the Hockaday Museum's
Art Acquisition Fund. |
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Crown
of the Continent:
Glacier
National Park Exhibition
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, Mark Ogle, Nick Oberling, John Fery, Adolph Heinze, Earl
E. Heikke, Diccon Swan, 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
Click HERE to see a
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 Fery had finished for the Great Northern. |
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Quiver
by David Secrest
On loan from the
Artist
The Hockaday is proud to display David Secrest's
Quiver on a continuing basis. We invite you to read the brochure
kept with it!
David Secrest has maintained a permanent and full-time metal sculpture
studio since 1978 in Somers, Montana.
From Secrest's Artist Statement:
I have grown to understand my work as having been a path from
intrigue to intimacy with the material and tools that I use. From this
has grown the understanding of form as it relates to structure -- and
texture as it relates to the perception of form.
My intimacy with and growing mastery of metalworking gives me a
foundation from which I can explore techniques and processes that have
not yet been explored or utilized in the field of creative arts...
My intention is to keep questions open.
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Quiver, looking along the Hockaday's north gallery windows.
See more about Secrest and
Quiver HERE |
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