Hockaday offers a Linda Tippetts retrospective
"Sinopah and Rising Wolf" c. 2000s, oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches; Tippetts collection
The Hockaday Museum of Art is hosting a preview reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 5, for a new exhibit by artist Linda Tippets titled “Roads Well Traveled — Some Were Gravel.”
This exhibition includes over 65 loaned paintings, and early sketches from Tippets’ from the past five decades as a celebrated Montana artist. Also featured are works painted during her international travels.
Tippetts is an original A Timeless Legacy artist from the Hockaday Museum of Art’s Women Artists of Glacier National Park exhibit, and is one of the most renowned Glacier Park artists in the country. She is a signature member of the Plein Air Painters of America. Among many awards highlighting her 30-year career is the 1992 National Arts for the Parks Academy Grand Prize.
Tippetts grew up near Great Falls, one of six kids, on the cattle feedlot built by her father. In 1960, she saw a painting of a willow tree that had grown from a stump, noting that the tree re-emerging from its felled remains was for her a story of “becoming beautiful against all odds” and catalyzed her desire to paint. In 1964, she was accepted to the Artist Correspondence School, which she completed in 1969 having worked through the curriculum while working the ranch and other jobs. During the mid-1970s she moved to the Flathead Valley and built a home and studio in Somers on the north end of Flathead Lake. Linda Tippetts currently lives in Augusta, Montana, continues to hike and paint in Glacier Park, and actively shows her work. Her paintings are currently carried by galleries in Montana and Canada.
The exhibit will run Aug. 6 to Oct. 2. Included in the exhibit are rarely seen paintings of the Blackfeet’s Beaver Bundle and Sundance ceremonies at Heart Butte, Montana, which the artist attended through a private invitation from tribal members.
Light refreshments will be served and there will be a brief introduction and comments by the curator, artist and other special guests. No RSVP is required. The event is free for museum members and $10 for non-members.