https://www.brucepierceart.com/about daily 0.75 2024-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/b1d202e5-a649-4b20-ae31-ce8f41d31565/IMG_1951_1.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/f0839163-0d46-4530-9068-395f05ef71e6/My+family_1.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/3801c1eb-bde4-4343-a3e0-036315630188/My+family+2_1.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/114fd923-0d20-412d-b519-6df42647dd53/2+painting+in+Canada.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/9c4ea5f1-a45c-4f28-ae95-197fcb78cb7b/IMG_3724+copy.jpg https://www.brucepierceart.com/framing-mounting daily 0.75 2023-02-27 https://www.brucepierceart.com/home daily 1.0 2024-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/44e50b3f-6b0a-425c-bb48-3540ecb7881b/Morning+Serenade.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1712105073718-2M86DH21UF8TZPOJA43V/Extravagant+neighborhood.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/31acdb86-534e-4c3b-a514-0a9615562dbe/Autumn+Song.jpg https://www.brucepierceart.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-04-13 https://www.brucepierceart.com/gallery daily 0.75 2024-04-03 https://www.brucepierceart.com/gallery-elk daily 0.75 2024-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1743462807516-YNNSWYISHJKMYWLTXCDJ/Gibbon%2BRiver%2BSunrise.jpg Wildlife "Gibbon River Sun Rise" oil on linen 16x20 Giclee prints available https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1677621207802-6T4Z3AAW6DQUVKH8N58D/On+Red+Alert+1.jpg Wildlife "On Red Alert" oil on linen, 20"x 30", Sold. Giclee prints available. This painting was a commissioned piece. I used the Taylor Peaks at the head of Taylor's Fork, in S.W. Montana for my background. With the rut in full swing, this bull is in a hyper aware state, trying to keep his cows from being harassed or stolen, by some interloper satellite bull...he is "on red alert". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/93ab4e44-719d-4bb5-9dce-fa3646e25110/Springhill+Sunset.jpg Wildlife "Springhill Sunset" oil on canvas, 12.5"x 20", sold. Giclee prints available. One 4th of July evening, we were invited to some friend's home to play some volleyball and to watch some fireworks. As the sun began to set, I left the party and with camera in hand headed across the road to get some photos of the real fireworks I was interested in! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/459b4ebb-50cf-4a6d-8d96-5c5565ed4693/Winner+Takes+All.jpg Wildlife "Winner Takes All" oil on linen 30"x 40" Available for sale, contact artist. Giclee prints available. This is a scene along the Gallatin River, where Sage Creek flows into the Gallatin. I had intended to paint on location, but the temperature dropped to below zero during the day as a cold front moved in, so I contented myself with taking photos, and saved the painting for the warmth of my studio. This bull is looking back to make sure that the bull he just thrashed, doesn't get any foolish ideas. The cows on the other hand, are not too worried, they've found their breeding bull! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/9532f9da-c88f-4635-8455-8fc458c181b2/Into+the+Lime+Light.jpg Wildlife "Into the Lime Light" oil on linen 20"x 30", Sold. Giclee prints available. Even from a distance, when a bull walks into evening light, he can be easily seen and distinguished... his tan, almost white sides, and antlers, flashing. It is quite a thrilling sight, and like this bull, a thrilling sound! After all the time I have spent every Fall, in close proximity to elk, with either a bow or a camera, I still never get tired of hearing a bull bugle, or cows and calves calling back and forth with meows and whines. They are such majestic animals! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/35ed5472-5d9b-488b-a1a6-06ac8cbc34da/Bedroom+Bugler.jpg Wildlife "Bedroom Bugler" oil on linen 30"x 24", Available for sale, contact artist. Giclee prints available. With the evening light filtering through the trees, this bull decides it is time to leave the lodge pole pine patch, that has been his bedroom for the day, and follow his cows out for an evening and night of feeding and fending off the competition! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/cb989b45-fa97-426e-b486-aa6b833d373e/Looking+for+Greener+Pastures.jpg Wildlife "Looking for Greener Pastures" oil on canvas 10"x 14" Available for sale, contact artist. A bench overlooking the Jefferson River valley, with the Highland Mountains in the distance. This buck has his sights set on an alfalfa field to the north, and is willing to travel quite a ways to get there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/0eec9c8b-7f17-4c6a-828b-0d5e981cdaa5/Crossing+Them+Over.jpg Wildlife "Crossing Them Over" oil on linen 36"x 48" Available for sale, contact artist. Giclee prints available. This bull I called the "Gibbon River bull...he kept his cows around the upper Gibbon Meadows in Yellowstone N.P.. He gave me more good photos over the course of several days than just about any other bull I have ever photographed. When he got tired of posing and modeling and putting on a show, he would just cross the cows over to the other side of the river, and disappear for a few hours in the shade of the trees. In the late afternoon he would be back, ready for another show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/b4fc03f5-5203-42bb-97cd-4f7b0d684fd5/Sage+Creek+Surprise.jpg Wildlife "Sage Creek Surprise" oil on linen 32"x 48" Available for sale, contact artist. Giclee prints available. This is the trail along Little Sage Creek in the Lee Metcalf Wilderness in S.W. Montana. This bull, we called "Freight Train" more for his bugle than his actions. He had a beautiful, long drawn out classic bugle that was very recognizable even from a distance. He inhabited this area in Sage Creek for several years, and was always the dominant herd bull. Even today we see the effect of his genetics on the herd in the area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/634d689a-bfc4-43ff-a305-dd3674f3eb99/When+the+Storm+Has+Passed.jpg Wildlife "When the Storm has Passed" oil on linen 28"x 36" Sold. Giclee prints available. This studio painting, was inspired by a little field study I painted standing in the frozen over creek bottom. The cabin is at the trail head of Porcupine Creek drainage. I love the affect of freshly fallen snow on a landscape, "when the storm has passed", the wildlife all come out to feed, the warm colored evening light washing over the quiet, hushed world. The cold high pressure air that settles in after the storm, causes ice crystals to form in the air, that sparkle in the setting sun! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/5b06a2f2-766c-42b4-ad1e-8b80589a819a/Room+to+Roam.jpg Wildlife "Room to Roam" oil on linen 32"x 48" Available of sale, contact artist. Giclee prints for sale. This -20 below zero morning, with the frost sparkling like diamonds on everything in the early morning light, was not at all suited for painting outdoors, and even the camera battery didn't last long in the cold, as I attempted to capture the beautiful light of the scene. The buffalo, on the other hand, seem to be built for this harsh climate, and go about their business as if it is just another normal day to roam across the vast, seemingly endless landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/eca85ffe-479e-45a7-ab87-cdbb8e83613a/Morning+Serenade.jpg Wildlife "Morning Serenade" oil on linen "30x 44", sold. Giclee prints available. This was my second version painting of the same setting in the Spanish Peaks area. The first painting was a 40x60 painting "Spanish Creek Bull" which was destroyed in the Montana Trails Gallery natural gas explosion, in March of 2009 which destroyed the gallery and half a city block in downtown Bozeman. In this painting, I added some Fall color quaking aspens, in the background, and then set the morning lit bull more against the cool colors of the shaded ridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/56402433-0f24-4487-9592-4f47a4f9bbe5/Spanish+Creek+Bull.jpg Wildlife "Spanish Creek Bull" oil on linen, 40"x 60". Giclee prints available. This was the first version I painted of this scene. It was destroyed in the Montana Trails Gallery gas explosion in 2009. Originally, I hiked up to this spot, in the dark and set up my painting gear, and then started painting fast and furious, as the sun came up and started bathing everything in beautiful morning light. I was only able to get about half the field study done before the light had changed too much to be able to continue. But even half done, the field study had enough vital information to be able to start the studio version. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/92b6edf4-6d85-4ff6-ad51-6cf626076f25/Something+in+the+wind.jpg Wildlife "Something in the Wind" oil on linen, 16"x 22", Sold. Giclee prints available. This is a view from Wapiti Ridge, with Sage Peak in the background, all of this country being in the Lee Metcalf Wilderness area. When we first discovered this beautiful area, in 1989, it was an elk paradise. After the reintroduction of wolves in "95" little by little the elk have pretty much disappeared from this landscape. With a predator like the wolf, the elk just could not survive in this country they obviously preferred. One by one the elk were being picked off, being in smaller groups in terrine where they could not see the wolves coming. Now the elk congregate the first part of Sept. in large herds out in the wide open private ranches in the Madison Valley, where they have a better chance of survival against the wolves. It is heart breaking now, to go back to this beautiful elk country, and then to hardly see a single elk or hear a single bugle! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/9206ce3a-37a1-4438-90b9-78fda50fe847/Three+of+a+Kind.jpg Wildlife "Three of a Kind" oil on linen, 24"x 36", Sold. Giclee prints available. This was a commissioned painting. A surprise gift for an avid bowhunter husband, who specialized in scouting out and going after "freak antler" bulls. These were 3 of the bulls that he had harvested that qualified as freak antlered. The background is Fan Mountain of the Madison Range, above Ennis, Montana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/8820f901-b1b1-4812-a3ac-5d52d6b6ff86/Out+of+the+Shadows.jpg Wildlife "Out of the Shadows" oil on canvas, 16"x 22", Sold. Giclee prints available. I went out and started this painting on location. It is near Waterloo, MT along the Jefferson River, with the Tobacco Root Mountains in the background, being lit up by the setting sun. Though this buck did not pose for me, there was plenty of sign that he was in the shadows somewhere close by. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/ef7795fc-a882-4c56-93ca-f512240c1d12/Looking+for+Trouble.jpg Wildlife "Looking for Trouble" oil on canvas, 16"x 20", Sold. Giclee prints available. I painted this scene completely on location. I went on a two week painting trip to Banff, AB living out of my Ford Explorer. With the barest of necessities, I ate, drank, slept, and painted, which is to say, it was an artist's dream trip! I came home with some of the best field study paintings I had ever done. On this painting, I started the painting in the early morn light and when the light had changed too much, I packed up and went to another painting site....then returned and finished this painting the following morning. I added the elk when I got home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/3e16e5ab-36b6-43c1-a8fa-0cda8f6fabf2/Firehole+Sunrise.jpg Wildlife "Firehole Sunrise" oil on linen, 20"x 30", Sold. Giclee prints available. Staying on location for several days, really is a huge advantage. We camped in Yellowstone for most of a week, and so when finding the perfect spot, it was possible to return the next day when the light was also perfect, which was before sunrise in this scene! Being in Yellowstone after most of the hordes of tourists have gone away, is also a huge advantage, but now that too is becoming a rare occasion! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/9f01bf2f-22d1-48fc-93bc-f9c72353543f/Playing+Second+Fiddle.jpg Wildlife "Playing Second Fiddle" oil on linen 36"x 22" Original available, giclee prints available. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/52d84cdb-263d-4185-92b4-e8ac4fa87543/Spanish+Peaks+Bugle+Corps.jpg Wildlife "Spanish Peaks Bugle Corps" oil on canvas, 5"x 7" https://www.brucepierceart.com/gallery-native daily 0.75 2024-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1678210763905-NWKA5F0KX6M1JY15O2ZA/Boarder+Patrol+in+Paradise.jpg Gallery native "Border Patrol in Paradise" oil on linen, 42"x 58". Available for sale, contact artist. Giclee prints available. One of my favorite scenes along the Gallatin River, with the Spanish Peaks in the distance. This big painting was also inspired by a little 9x12 field study that I painted on this location one evening. Once again, these "braves" didn't accommodate me by being there, but it was not hard to imagine them having been there in ages gone by! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1677624077144-2FOTBSQ49G7UF5UT1LSU/Disappering+Act+1.jpg Gallery native "Disappearing Act" oil on linen, 32"x44" Giclee prints available. Driving to my studio one Fall afternoon, these big beautiful clouds drifting over the Horseshoe Hills, stopped me in my tracks, I had to get some photos! The freeway and the town of Manhattan in the foreground of the photos, didn't seem to fit into the idea of the painting too well, so a more suitable sage brush, juniper, and chamissa scene was transpainted in! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1677620490468-IFAKR5QNSE27RLF29JTB/Indian+Summer+1.jpg Gallery native "Indian Summer" oil on linen, 26"x 42". Sold. Giclee prints available. This beautiful native dancer, in her traditional dance regalia, was one of my favorites in the whole "Powwow" cultural gathering. I wanted the background or setting to accentuate the idea of being a part of, and in harmony with the natural world in which they live. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1711853148099-YNGHMHSVEFAKAAJPEXAR/Moon%2Bof%2Bthe%2BPainted%2BLeaves%2B2.jpg Gallery native "Moon of the Painted Leaves" oil on linen, 26"x 42", Sold. Giclee prints available. Another beautiful, proud, and graceful traditional dancer, that inspired me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/31acdb86-534e-4c3b-a514-0a9615562dbe/Autumn+Song.jpg Gallery native "Autumn Song" oil on linen, 18.5"x 30", Sold. Giclee prints available. Sometimes, a subject matter is so inspiring, it demands multiple paintings to explore the idea, and discover the beauty! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1711853211198-T68I8I9XUJ6OTOK3G1I4/Nike%2Bgeneration%2B2.jpg Gallery native "The Nike Generation" oil on linen, 33.5"x 18". Available for sale, contact artist. I was struck by the contrast of these native people all so proudly dressed in their traditional costumes, so beautifully decorated in such a personal, individual way....and then the children dressed in the convenient, generic Walmart clothes of a modern society where the individual artistic touches of culture and pride were completely gone! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/e85ee51d-3bb5-47e7-9f64-277969535292/Going+to+the+Sun.jpg Gallery native "Going to the Sun" oil on linen, 18"x 38", Sold Giclee prints available. This painting started out as a landscape, but the buyer requested that I add the native traveler to give it more historic feel! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/f33e37a4-2cfe-494b-b2d9-9438347df174/Jingle+Dancer.jpg Gallery native "Jingle Dancer" oil on board, 16"x 12", Sold. Giclee prints available. All of these native dancers, in their varied costumes, give me a chance to do "figurative" work, which is still about my favorite type of subject matter! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/79c6b4a9-eb6b-4e71-be1a-bc2ff89368dd/Sadie.jpg Gallery native "Sadie" oil on linen, 28"x 24" This was a commissioned portrait of a young Northern Cheyenne girl, in her "jiggle dance" dress. Sadie is even more of a bright, joyous, and lovable young lady than what I was able to capture...but that was the high mark for which I was aiming! I wanted to put her in a setting that reflects her deep Montana prairie/mountain Norther Cheyenne heritage. I love the beautiful soft colors that appear when the sun is just setting and the full moon is rising, the earth's shadow just beginning to show on the eastern horizon, but yet the sun is still giving a warm glow to Sadie's face and the middle distance. Her dance regalia is made up of some of the same beautiful purples and blue-greens, and golds of the surrounding breath taking hues of Mother Nature! https://www.brucepierceart.com/gallery-western daily 0.75 2024-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/5a894698-23e6-455c-9938-3fa14dec6d25/Taking+the+scenic+route+home.jpg Gallery Western "Taking the Scenic Route Home" oil on linen, 22"x 34"( Sold) Giclee prints available. Usually when painting a landscape, or a scene, the bottom of the painting is the view out in front of you 40 or 50 feet or more. In this painting I decided to tackle the challenge of trying to paint the water right at my feet...had I known how difficult it would turnout to be, I might have chosen differently! But I was pleased with the end result! This is the beautiful Gallatin River again. "Cord" Haythorn is the cowboy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/fcf507a7-08e0-42b4-88f2-ef55a39871bf/Sunset+Crossing.jpg Gallery Western "Sunset Crossing" oil on linen, 22"x 28", Sold. Giclee prints available. Another Gallatin River crossing. This is the same part of the river as the "Border Patrol in Paradise" painting, with the Spanish Peaks in the distance. Craig Haythorn is the cowboy....a proud 3rd or 4th generation steward of the historic Haythorn Ranch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/b5ee25c8-9198-494c-bde8-6945922f1cb7/Colorful+Commute.jpg Gallery Western "Colorful Commute" oil on linen 30x25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/9b8f6dab-6010-4b0b-9185-e2bff4ecd53e/Charlie%27s+Inspiration+Point.jpg Gallery Western "Charlie's Inspiration Point" oil on linen, 22"x 36". Sold. Giclee prints available. Many times I have stood overlooking a scene, and though the animals, or riders are not there, it is easy to envision them being there, and thus a painting idea is born. In Charlie Russell's masterpiece, "When the Land Belonged to God" I envisioned him standing there above the Missouri River looking over this scene, and though the buffalo were long gone into the pages of history books, he could see them filling this scene as far as the eye could see. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/f2e75b64-98b2-40cc-8226-73aefe27c4ac/Extravagant+Neighborhood.jpg Gallery Western "Extravagant Neighborhood" oil on linen, 24"x 36", Sold. Giclee prints available. A good friend and neighbor, approached me about doing a little drawing or "something" for him of this little cabin. He had an old curled up black and white photo of the scene. He had grown up going to this cabin with his family, for hunting trips, summer outings etc. but a few years later, the cabin and the whole surrounding area had burned in a forest fire. When I saw the photo, I knew what it could become, and I also knew my friend had no clue of what I could do with the information on the little photo! I really didn't want to "waste" the good reference material and opportunity, on just a drawing, so I decided to "go for it" and do the painting I knew it should be! I turned it into a sunset lighting with the colorful clouds, and added the pack string, and the inviting light in the window and smoke coming out of the stovepipe. Because his stated budget for the project was for a drawing, I decided to have a couple giclee prints made of the painting, one for him and one for his sister, which was about price of what a drawing would have been. When he came to pick up his "drawing", he was so blown away, that big "tough guy" Mike was on the verge of tears! Then he blew me away, when he told me he didn't want the print, he wanted the original! When I told him how much the painting would be, he just said, "I don't care, I want the original"! When he gave his sister the giclee print, she did begin crying...she and her husband had spent their honeymoon in that cabin! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1711573585855-KNFEMKAN4CY5TGEIB6PJ/Moving+the+Horses.jpg Gallery Western "Moving the Horses" oil on canvas, 11"x 17", Sold. giclee prints available. With some artistic license, I moved this Gallatin farmstead, across some fields, so that it could have the Spanish Peaks as a backdrop! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1711573625758-6E57BFYCVY0P6D1SXLAD/Perks+of+the+Job.jpg Gallery Western "Perks of the Job" oil on linen, 18"x 24", Sold. Giclee Prints available. Being a cowboy maybe doesn't pay that great, but the "perks of the job" help make up the difference! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1e8242ea-bd2d-4ac6-8265-ed8295b392fd/sunrise+run.jpg Gallery Western "Sunrise Run" oil on linen, 22"x 28" sold giclee prints available. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1677799155799-CEAOX61R6XS00HZO7X8Y/Golden+Days+1.jpg Gallery Western "Golden Days" oil on linen, 18"x 24", Sold. Giclee Prints available. Another Gallatin River crossing, this one with back lighting, which was fun to do! I did this painting for the "Out West Art Show" quick finish event and auction. Once again, Craig Haythorn is my cowboy model! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1677795754810-JW0WILUP4BI3RA8JKQMH/Ridge+Runners+1.jpg Gallery Western "Ridge Runners" oil on linen, 30"x 48". Available for sale, contact artist. This scene is going up Wapiti ridge up Taylor's Fork Creek, with the Hilgard Peaks of the Madison range in the background. These are Haythorn cowboys and horses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/e3116f6a-e051-4cfd-a11e-04b151fb87cd/Trying+to+Broker+a+Truce.jpg Gallery Western "Trying to Broker a Truce" oil on linen, 30"x 42", Sold. Giclee prints available. About 14 of us artists, were able to go to the historic Haythorn Ranch in the sand hills of Nebraska for a photo shoot. We took photos of them doing their different cowboy related jobs, rounding up the horses, roping the horses from the rope corral, saddling the horses, branding the calves, meals at the chuck wagon and cowboy camp, as well as many other activities. I came home with about 15,000 photos, of the most beautiful horses I had ever seen and the most authentic cowboys and girls! It was a treasure trove of painting ideas! Most of the photos, end up being transposed into Montana settings! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1677622822789-P550RN5YBU92NEKAMRHG/Rainbow+Rider+2.jpg Gallery Western "Rainbow Rider" oil on linen, 36"x 30", Sold. Giclee prints available. At the local rodeo, we watched this "buckaroo" ride this bronc to a standstill, it was quite a performance on the part of both, but the rider got the upper hand this time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1711572994508-KLQXAIGYHFOJ1LKZ3WQE/Setting+the+Hook.jpg Gallery Western "Setting the Hook" watercolor, 11"x 11", Sold. Kelley Haythorn, showing that she knew her way around a horse and a rope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/b185b64e-8aea-4ea0-8e57-6351c870420b/Just+About+At+the+End+of+His+Rope.jpg Gallery Western "Just About At the End of His Rope" oil on linen, 24"x 38", Sold. Giclee prints available. Kelley Haythorn again, getting the job done! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1711573283685-JX4DJTL0DJENOCP67LPB/Directing+Traffic.jpg Gallery Western "Directing Traffic" watercolor, 9"x 12" Watching the riders and the horses working together a one unit, was poetry in motion! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1677622425700-9SZ3K2N4EHILZ9W3KQ5Z/Cowgirls+and+Their+Diamonds+1.jpg Gallery Western "Cowgirls and Their Diamonds" oil on linen, 24"x 38", Sold. Giclee prints available. These two cowgirls packed us in and out of our bowhunting camp in the wilderness. They were rightfully proud of their "diamond hitches" and packing skills! They had no idea that I was intending to do a painting of them doing their job, but when I finished the painting, I sent them both digital files of the painting...I think they were both quite well pleased! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1677798573569-AHSEPP65OZ4CALRIMYLF/Sage+Creek+Surprise+1.jpg Gallery Western "Sage Creek Surprise" oil on linen, 32"x 48". Available to buy, contact artist. Giclee prints available. This bull elk, is our old friend "Freight Train". We had a fair number of encounters with him, some at pretty close quarters, but even after several years of our trying for a different outcome, he always left us empty handed, but with a great deal of respect and an understanding of how a few bulls live to be old herd bulls! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1677621540232-GW8FCFWJOZWTFWMECGRU/About+To+Ruin+a+Hunting+Trip+1.jpg Gallery Western "Just About to Ruin a Moose Hunt" oil on linen, 30"x 42", Sold. Giclee prints available. After years of applying for a coveted moose permit, they finally draw one. Then after weeks of planning, of scouting, of packing, the anticipation growing...the day finally arrives! They leave before the crack of dawn, to canoe into the wilderness to set up their camp and get situated for the two week adventure. Arriving to the camp spot just before sunset, the unthinkable happens! The adrenaline kicks in, bull fever empties the brain of any rational or logical thoughts, and with the pull of the trigger the moose hunt is over. The thrill of a life time, the high fives, the whooping and hollering soon give way to the reality of their situation. Exhausted from canoeing all day, they now get to spend half the night or all of it, trying to reduce a huge bull moose into pieces they can actually move from the water into the tangled willows, and that's all while trying to hold a flash light that seems to be getting dimmer by the minute. Finally at dawn's early light, they stumble into what was suppose to be camp, and climb into their bedrolls on top of the tent canvas that will now not need to be set up. After a few hours sleep they will get to start shuttling meat out of the wilderness before the grizzlies discover the carcass. After a few weeks when the aches and pains have been forgotten, and the memories have been sufficiently adjusted to remember only the thrill, they will start talking excitedly about the next hunt, when the other guy draws his tag! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1677618052739-JDQJCJD9JHBM6ZXOA58R/Bow+River+Camp+2500px.jpg Gallery Western "Bow River Camp" oil on linen, 22"x 28", Sold. Giclee prints available. Two evenings in a row, I set up my easel on the banks of the Bow River in Banff, to try and capture this scene of the setting sun shining on the peaks, and reflecting on the water. The field study resulted in this studio painting of some moose hunters' camp. Artist Philip R. Goodwin's paintings of wilderness camps, and canoes, and moose hunters, have always been favorites of mine, and inspired this painting idea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/41e51840-33f6-45e7-a980-9f687a4dcd71/A+Front+Row+Seat.jpg Gallery Western "A Front Row Seat" oil on linen, 30"x 24" January 20 2026 there were northern lights in our area that inspired this painting. A packer, after a successful hunt, has a front row seat on his trip out of the back country. https://www.brucepierceart.com/gallery-figurative daily 0.75 2024-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/df5d3460-cd0f-40ca-8777-52d38ee2f0ee/Wild+Flowers.jpg Gallery Figurative "Wild Flowers" oil on linen, 32"x 32". Available for sale, contact artist. I'm thankful I grew up in a world, where there was still an "age of innocence" and reality was not virtual, and the simple pleasures of life, were more natural and not man made! These two sisters made the perfect models for an afternoon-evening photo shoot out in the woods. With my wife and their mother along, we made it a family outing, and I was able to come away with many ideas for future paintings. By the time we finished up, the air had cooled off considerably and their noses and cheeks and toes were noticeable rosy and red...but they gamely humored me to the last ray of sunset! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/bc73ce6d-910d-4092-bb58-f1e0b5b6e36a/Girl+at+the+Fountain.jpg Gallery Figurative "Girl at the Fountain" watercolor, 22"x 18", Sold. giclee prints available. From the beginning of time, the source of water was central to life and living. In Italy, fountains are still central in every town and city, as reminders of days gone by, when daily trips to the fountain where required to maintain life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1711573764430-UBBGN5AYZKO7ZP62Y0ES/Tuckered+Out.jpg Gallery Figurative "Tuckered Out" oil on linen, 36"x 24", Sold. Giclee prints available. In the hyperactivity of the day, parents can sometimes doubt, "from whence came this child?", but at the end of the day as the child falls asleep in their arms, the parent is again reassured of them being the gift from above that they are! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1711573096804-BDPBL3FMSL1T5803S93E/Bedtime+Stories.jpg Gallery Figurative "Bed Time Stories" oil on linen, 24"x 30", Sold. giclee prints available. My wife and "little angels" finishing the day with the bedtime ritual of reading books. After I had taken photos of them reading together, my son decided to put on the "angel wings" and as we all laughed hilariously, he proceeded to jump on the bed in a very non-angelic way! That too I suppose should become a painting someday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1711573185995-ALLKGWPNNV3QIL0PKLS9/cabin+builders.jpg Gallery Figurative "Cabin Builders, Home Makers, Nation builders" oil on linen, 36"x 30", Sold Giclee prints available. In building my log studio, our two kids would come out and try to build their own cabin, giving me the idea for this painting. Homesteaders, like my great-grandparents, who with great hope, toiled and labored with blood, sweat and tears, to carve out a home and a future from the raw materials of the land. This painting should have been a family portrait, but with my wife working nights and sleeping days at the time, I used the "baby sitter" and a doll as the fill in for the mother figure and her new born. Now I wished I would have waited for my wife to model! In this painting, my daughter is imitating the mother with her little dolly, and my son, like his dad is building a cabin to protect the family from the elements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1677795132164-MMOXW99R5TA9LSIPZU62/Maypoll+dance+1.jpg Gallery Figurative "Maypole Dancer" oil on board, 12"x 9". Available for sale, contact artist. At a Renaissance Fair, I watched with great interest and fascination, as a local dance school performed this old time Maypole dance. Later this young woman agreed to model for some of my Italian painting ideas, and though she was not Italian, she definitely looked the part! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1711573007516-IJVFFQBQN7Z142UCTAB1/Laura.jpg Gallery Figurative "Laura" oil on canvas, 20"x 14", Sold. Giclee prints available. Our beautiful exchange student from Spain,( she was beautiful within and without) who enriched our lives with the year she spent with us! After years of schooling and hard work, Laura is now, like both of her parents, an Architect in Madrid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/f531373f-9d72-4755-8912-762a7748b475/Red+White+and+Blue.jpg Gallery Figurative "Red, White and Blue" oil on linen panel, 20"x 16" This beautiful young woman with her gorgeous red hair, pale complexion and color reflecting white blouse, set against this striking blue-green background, made for a very inspiring and enjoyable portrait painting exercise! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/79c6b4a9-eb6b-4e71-be1a-bc2ff89368dd/Sadie.jpg Gallery Figurative "Sadie" oil on linen, 28"x 24" This was a commissioned portrait, of a young Northern Cheyenne girl in her "jingle dance" dress. Sadie, is even more of a bright, joyous, and lovable young lady than what I was able to capture...but that was the high mark for which I was aiming! I wanted to put her in a setting that reflects her deep Montana prairie/mountain Northern Cheyenne heritage. I love the beautiful soft colors that appear when the sun is just setting and the full moon is just rising, the earths shadow just beginning to show on the eastern horizon , but yet the sun still giving a warm glow to Sadie's face and the middle distance. Her dance regalia is made up of some of the same beautiful purples and blue-greens, and golds of the surrounding, breath taking hues of Mother Nature! https://www.brucepierceart.com/gallery-italy daily 0.75 2024-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/29c064c9-ccee-4525-9164-d531f6e79b2b/Giovenazzo+Italy.jpg Gallery Italy "Giovinazzo, Italy" Watercolor, 22"x 16". Sold Giclee prints available. In Italy, everywhere you go, everywhere you look, there is a scene begging to be painted! Whether in the hills and mountains of Tuscany, the medieval hilltop towns of Umbria, or the fishing villages of southern Italy, it is an artist's paradise! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/b60445c6-080f-48a4-9d1e-76afb501d68f/Afternoon+Rest.jpg Gallery Italy "Afternoon Rest" Giovinazzo, Italy watercolor, 12"x 16", Sold. Giclee prints available. I lived in this little fishing village on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, for several months, and never got tired of wandering the streets and "lungo mare" along the sea, day or night! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/52abbd28-ffe0-4fd8-9ca6-7982cef99bfc/Mending+the+Nets.jpg Gallery Italy "Mending the Nets" Giovinazzo, Italy watercolor, 12"x 16", Sold. Giclee prints available. The fishing was done mostly in the evening and night, with the "catch" coming in in time for the morning market, but then during the day, the nets and boats had to be prepared for another night of fishing! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/bc73ce6d-910d-4092-bb58-f1e0b5b6e36a/Girl+at+the+Fountain.jpg Gallery Italy "Una Ragazza alla Fontana" watercolor, 22"x 18", Sold. giclee prints available. I came upon this picturesque fountain, in an "off the beaten path" corner of Venice. A monument of a bygone era, when trips to the fountain were a daily necessity of life. The young woman was not there of course, but my artist's mind had no trouble imagining her being there! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1711573019038-IKWVGI26LDC5LIU5J2YN/Venice+Afternoon.jpg Gallery Italy "Venice Afternoon" oil on linen, 20"x 16", Sold. Giclee prints available. As I have said, everywhere a person looks in Italy, there is a painting waiting to be painted. For good reason, Venice has been an artist magnet for centuries, with some of the most famous artists of all time having been drawn to its' unique character and beauty. https://www.brucepierceart.com/art-landscape-field-studies daily 0.75 2024-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/9826d0d0-f9d1-4c00-bdfd-f7a036cd25d6/Gallatin+Shadows.jpg Art Landscape- field studies "Gallatin Evening Shadows" oil on canvas, 14"x 20", Sold. Giclee prints available. Not far from home, I find myself every Fall, wandering the river bottom of the Gallatin River with my camera and paint box. The lengthening shadows of the cottonwoods on this pasture kept me from even getting to the river this day! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1711573664071-K7B76Z5VZLCWMBJZDCRW/Porcupine+Creek+Cabin.jpg Art Landscape- field studies "Porcupine Creek Cabin" field study oil on canvas, 12"x 9" , Sold. I have been wanting to paint a picture of this little cabin for years, so this beautiful "Fall" day, I set up my easel right in the frozen creek bottom, and mostly finished the painting on site! This painting was the inspiration for my studio painting, "When the Storm has Passed". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1677796932856-QMZ011AOWMSK16CLSVHH/Jefferson+River+Overlook+1.jpg Art Landscape- field studies "Jefferson River Overlook" oil on canvas, 11"x 14", Sold. Giclee prints available. 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This bull is patterned after the "Fred Mercer" bull, which was the Montana State record bull from 1958-2016 ("Typical" classification). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1712093703160-QMWIWXAGT73UCVEIJ64O/perks+of+the+job.jpg New Artwork - My Most Recent Work "Perks of the Job" (Cowboy Living) oil on linen, 18"x 24". Sold at the "Out West Art Show" 2024. A cowboy or girl, like an artist, aren't necessarily "in it" for the money, it is the "perks of the job" that can't be reckoned by monetary value, that make up the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1712083901677-FX0ZKYKFYHDJVBWTLI1Y/bedroombugler.jpg New Artwork - My Most Recent Work "Bedroom Bugler" oil on linen, 30"x 24" (Available for sale). Sometimes a person gets lucky, and come upon a bull still in his bedroom, announcing to the world, that he is headed out for a night of action, and keeping his harem in line. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1712093792341-RKOAZFMB9TP1U7BB3HCO/into+the+limelight.jpg New Artwork - My Most Recent Work "Into the Limelight" oil on linen, 20"x 30" (Sold at "The Russell" art auction 2024). I hiked up to this ridge top in the Spanish Peaks area to watch the sun set and get some reference photos for this painting. When the sun had set, and I was enjoying the beautiful afterglow, I suddenly realized, that I had forgotten to bring any light source for my return trip down the mountain! I literally had to run down the trail, with my camera bouncing, to make it out before it got totally dark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/634d689a-bfc4-43ff-a305-dd3674f3eb99/When+the+Storm+Has+Passed.jpg New Artwork - My Most Recent Work "When the Storm has Passed" oil on linen, 28"x 36" (Sold at "The Russell" auction 2023). I love the magical world, after the storm has passed, when there is a beautiful coating of fresh snow on everything...when the wildlife venture out to feed after being holed up for the duration of the storm. I set up and painted a little field study after such a storm, of this little cabin at the Porcupine Creek trail head. That led to this studio painting...enlarging upon the idea of the field study. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/df5d3460-cd0f-40ca-8777-52d38ee2f0ee/Wild+Flowers.jpg New Artwork - My Most Recent Work "Wild Flowers" oil on linen, 32"x 32" (Available for sale). I especially enjoy doing figurative paintings, but it seems that I always end up having to put the paintings aside, to work on a "western" piece for some deadline for a show that is approaching. This time, I decided to just keep painting and was able to actually finish this figurative painting! Some of my best memories of my growing up days and years, are of our family outings to the "great outdoors" to the nearby mountains, for fishing or firewood cutting, or hunting. I am so thankful that I grew up in a time when there was still an "age of innocence"! A time before computers and the internet, and personal cell phones derailed the simplicity of outdoor living, and youthful adventures actually based in reality and not virtual! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1e8242ea-bd2d-4ac6-8265-ed8295b392fd/sunrise+run.jpg New Artwork - My Most Recent Work "Sunrise Run" oil on linen, 22x28, sold giclee prints available https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/1743462807516-YNNSWYISHJKMYWLTXCDJ/Gibbon%2BRiver%2BSunrise.jpg New Artwork - My Most Recent Work "Gibbon River Sunrise" oil on linen, 16x20,sold giclee prints available https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63bc937c80e14c2fe27f97b6/6222cb00-4eef-4c7e-903c-6135b5bf9216/Colorful+Commute.jpg New Artwork - My Most Recent Work "Colorful Commute" oil on linen, 30x25