'A Timeless Legacy' award winners announced

The Hockaday Museum of Art has announced five award-winners honored Friday and Saturday, Aug. 11 and 12, during the private sponsor event and premier art sale of “A Timeless Legacy — Women Artists of Glacier National Park.”

This exhibit showcases the nationally recognized talents of 28 artists and features a mix of landscape, wildlife, indigenous and historical subject matter in a range of sizes.

Stacey Peterson of Evergreen, Colorado, won the Lucile Van Slyck Best in Show Award for most outstanding presentation of three works of art. Her works, selected by a jury, included her signature piece, “Cascade,” which captures the energy of a rushing waterfall in Glacier National Park.

Julie Jeppsen from Victor, Montana, received the Van Kirke Nelson Hockaday Purchase Award for “Band of Brothers.” Her painting depicting regal bighorn sheep standing cliffside in Glacier was chosen by a jury and acquired for the Hockaday’s Permanent Collection.

Darcie Peet of Tucson, Arizona, took home the Elizabeth Davey Lochrie Best Miniature Award for her work, “Storm Break,” a light-filled landscape of Swiftcurrent Lake in the park’s Many Glacier region.

Carole Cooke of Pagosa Springs, Colorado, won the Kathryn Woodman Leighton Artists’ Choice Award for her signature piece, “Ridge Soaring,” a vivid cloudscape. Cooke is among the four original artists who participated in the inaugural “A Timeless Legacy” show in 2015.

Linda Glover Gooch of Mesa, Arizona, was honored with the Nellie Augusta Knopf Patrons’ Choice Award for her moody and expertly rendered signature piece “Fireweed and Fog.”

“A Timeless Legacy” remains on display through Sept. 23, with all available works offered for purchase. The annual exhibition and sale event, now in its third year, has become a major fundraiser supporting the museum’s community learning programs and exhibitions throughout the year.

The Hockaday Museum of Art is located in the cultural district of downtown Kalispell at 302 Second Ave. E. It is housed in a 1904 Carnegie Library building that appears on the National Register of Historic Places.

The museum is a private nonprofit organization, open year-round, Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The mission of the Hockaday is to enrich the cultural life of the community and region, and preserve the artistic legacy of Montana and Glacier National Park.

For more information, visit http://www.HockadayMuseum.org or call 406-755-5268.