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The mission of the Yellowstone Art Museum is to serve as a leader in the collection, documentation, exhibition, interpretation, and preservation of works of contemporary and historic art, with an emphasis on the region, for education, inspiration, and enjoyment of the broadest possible audience.
Contemporary and historic art from nationally and internationally acclaimed artists dominate rotating exhibits at the largest and most comprehensive art museum in Montana. The Yellowstone Art Museum’s Permanent Collection is a concentrated program of over 3000 pieces celebrating regional artists like Rudy Autio, Deborah Butterfield, John Buck, Russell Chatham, and Theodore Waddell. It is a living artistic heritage that no other regional institution addresses with such consistency and commitment. The largest public collection of Will James’ artwork is also housed in the Yellowstone Art Museum. A first-class Museum Store, Espresso Bar, and Café all add to the Museum experience.

• Painted Essays: William Keith’s Landscapes of the West
  June 8, 2003 – July 27, 2003
  This exhibition epitomizes Keith’s reputation as a painter of grand panoramic landscapes, often of the High Sierra or other western mountain ranges.
  
  
• Lewis & Clark’s West: Early Views of the Missouri and the Yellowstone River Country
  July 11, 2003 – October 5, 2003
  Celebrating the important early art and artists who gave us the carefully detailed aspects of the landscape, animals, and people that Lewis and Clark experienced.
  
  
  
• A Western Icon: The Stories and Illustrations of Will James
  July 11, 2003 – June 30, 2004
  One of the most important American cowboy artists, James helped create and define the image of the mythic American cowboy in literature and in later Hollywood films.
  
  
• Deborah Butterfield
  August 15, 2003 – January 5, 2004
  Deborah Butterfield is an enormously popular and significant American sculptor. Horses have been the single, sustained focus of her work for over 20 years. This exhibition offers a full overview of the artist’s remarkable career with the majority of the works coming from her private collection; works that have rarely been seen before.
  
  
• Batman: Art of the Dark Knight
  October 23, 2003 – January 5, 2004
  An in-depth survey of the more than 60-year history of the famous comic book figure, from the earliest drawings by the series creator, Bob Kane, right up to the newest Batman novels, illustrated by Montana artist Brian Ashmore. The exhibit focuses on animation and film depictions and features memorabilia, costumes, and the Bat-Mobile.
  
  
• Space, Silence, Spirit: Maynard Dixon’s West
  March 26, 2004 – June 7, 2004
  An exceptionally insightful exhibition that affords viewers a rare view into the creative processes of a man many art historians consider the West’s greatest, most innovative landscape painter.
  
  
• Andy Warhol: The Screenprints
  March 26, 2004 – June 27, 2004
  Through his art, Andy Warhol’s dissection of American commerce and everyday life, and his reverence for and playful exploitation of American commercial culture, is an exciting and compelling vehicle for examing the “state of our being.” This exhibition will include over 70 works including complete suites of Campbell’s SoupI and II, Mao, Marilyn, Cowboys and Indians, Myths, Ten Portraits of the Jews of the Twentieth Century, Shadows, and Camouflage.
  
  
  
  
  

  Directions and/or Additional Information:
  The Yellowstone Art Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10-5 pm. Thursdays until 8 pm, and it is closed Mondays and all major holidays. Admission is $7 adults, $5 seniors and students, $3 for children, members free.
  
  
  

  Major Events for 2003/2004

  
  
  • Summerfair
    Annual Arts and Crafts Festival
    July12-13, 2003
    Billings’ North Park
    
    
  • Beaux Arts Ball
    Annual Masquerade Fundraiser
    October 25, 2003
    
    
  • PARTy & AUCTION
    Annual Art Auction Benefit
    March 6, 2004
    Yellowstone Art Museum