My Resume

Born 1943, Great Falls, MT 

Selected Shows
2006
Cowgirl Up, Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg AZ
Painting Outside the Lines, Hockaday Museum of Art, Kalispell, MT
Crown of the Continent--Glacier National Park, Two Medicine Gallery, Whitefish, MT
2005 C.M.Russell Show & Auction, Great Falls, MT
American Women Artists, Texas Art Gallery, Dallas
Canyon de Chelly, Eric Firestone Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2005-87 Plein-Air Painters of America, Lake Tahoe & Avalon, CA 
2003 The Allure of Light,The Depot Steamboat Springs, CO 
Glories of the Sonoran Desert, Desert Caballeros Museum, Wickenburg, AZ 
C.M. Russell Museum Auction and Miniatures Show, Big Falls, MT 
American Women Artists, McClarry Fine Art, Santa Fe
"Buck Nekkid" Show, Augusta, MT 
Holter Museum Miniature Show, Helena, MT 
Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters, Loch Vale Art Gallery, Estes Park, CO 
Bigfork Cultural Center Show/Sale, MT 
2002 Rocky Mountain Paintout, Estes Park, CO
ANA Competition, Holter Museum, Helena, MT
Sutton West, Missoula, MT
Kneeland Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
2000 Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, MT Plein-Air Paintings from Italy, Kneeland Gallery, Sun Valley, ID 
American Women Artists, Nedra Matteucci Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM, and Sorrento, Italy 
Miniature Invitational, Holter Museum, Helena, MT 
Miniature Invitational, C.M. Russell Museum, Great Falls 
Trailside Americana, Jackson, WY and Scottsdale, AZ 
Third Canyon, Denver, CO Kneeland Gallery, Sun Valley 
Texas Art Gallery, Dallas, TX Wolfwalker Gallery, Sedona, AZ
Sutton West, MT Steele & Steele, MT 
Plein Air Festival, San Jose Museum, CA 
C.M. Russell Museum & Auction, Great Falls, MT 
Montana Governor's Mansion, Great Falls, MT 
Bigfork Cultural Center, Bigfork, MT 
Holter Museum, Helena , MT 
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY 

Honors & Awards 
1994 Four Penquin USA Book Cover for Montana author Ivan Doig 
1993 National Arts for the Parks Academy Grand Prize 
1992-90 Landscape Medallion of Merit and Top 100, National Arts for the Parks 
1991 Great Chief Award, Kalispell Chamber of Commerce
1987 Best Oil Painting, Scottsdale Artists School 
1985-84 Best of Show, Colorado Artists Association; Award of Merit, Evergreen Artists Association 

Teaching 
2003, 2001, 1998 PAPA Workshops, Wickenburg, AZ; Granby, CO; Steamboat Springs, CO 
2002 Hockaday Center for the Arts, Kalispell, MT 

Bibliography 
2005 Art-Talk, December
2004 Wolf Schneider, "My World, Southwest Art, November
1998 An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West (1840-1980), University of Texas Press, Austin 
1996 Big Sky Journal, Spring 
1994 "Go For the Jugular Approach to Oils," The Artist's Magazine, August 
1993 "Perseverance Pays Off," Art of the West, July 
Lively Times Great Falls Tribune Missoulian 
1992 "Artists Worth Watching," Art Talk, November 
U.S. Art, December Wildlife Art News, November/December 
1990 Jo-Ann Swanson, Profile, Southwest Art, September 

Instruction & Study 
1964-1969 Graduate-Famous Artists School of Fine Arts Painting, Correspondence, Westport, CT

1978-1988 Attended workshops taught by Del Gish, Sergei Bongart, Ned Jacob, Richard Schmid, Scottsdale Artists School

1983-1998 Studied museum exhibits of Joaquin Sorolla, William Merritt Chase, French and Californian Impressionists, Carl Runguis, Taos painters, Russian artists

1983-1998 Studied museum exhibits of Joaquin Sorolla, William Merritt Chase, French and Californian Impressionists, Carl Runguis, Taos painters, Russian artists

1987-1999 Painted on location in Italy, Portugal, Alaska, China, Canada, US

1995-1996 Designed and constructed studio in Somers, MT

1993-1999 Taught Plein Air workshops in Montana, California and Colorado

2000 On-location painting and Museum study Rome, Florence, Sorrento, Italy

On-location painting with Northwest Rendezvous Artists, Montana

2001 On location painting in Mexico

Selected Collections 
National Arts for the Parks, Washington, DC. C.M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, MT. Tucson Art Museum, AZ. McGraw Hill Publications, New York. 

National Affiliations
Signature Member, Plein-Air Painters of America. American Women Artists