Gordon McConnell
Creating paintings inspired by western movies and by Remington and Russell, he is a native of the West, having been born and raised in rural Colorado. He studied art at Baylor University in Waco, Texas; at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, and at the University of Colorado, Boulder where he earned a Master’s Degree in 1979.
For two decades he worked as curator at the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana, before leaving in 1999 to begin work as a full-time painter and independent curator.
His work is in the collections of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming; the Art Museum of Missoula; and the Yellowstone Art Museum; the Federal Reserve Bank in Helena, Montana; and the Deaconness Medical Center in Billings, Montana.
Cloudsplitter
30” x 30” Acrylic on Deep Edged Panel
Spanning the Pass
18” x 24” Acrylic on Canvas
Bugle
30” x 30” Acrylic on Deep Edged Panel
Bighorn Horses
7.5” x 22.5” Acrylic on Paper
Runaway
16” x 20” Acrylic on Canvas
Silhouetted Horses
20” x 60” Acrylic on Canvas
