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Edward Borein in Brush and Ink

THE BRINTON MUSEUM presents the exhibit Edward Borein in Brush & Ink, opening in the S. K. Johnston, Jr. Family Gallery on June 24. This superb exhibition showcasing one of the foremost artists of the American West is comprised of more than fifty works of…

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The Geography of a Life: Dan Powell’s Photographs in the American West

Internationally known, award-winning American photographer Dan Powell taught at the University of Oregon from 1988 until his retirement in 2015. He has had prestigious solo and group shows around the world and his work is found in numerous museums and private collections. In 2021, Mr.…

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Birds of the Rocky Mountain Region

THE BRINTON MUSEUM (Big Horn, WY) in partnership with Bighorn Audubon Society presents Birds of the Rocky Mountain Region, a national juried art competition opening on May 4. Ninety-four artists from throughout the United States submitted up to three entries each in 2-d media and…

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The Gift

Developed by the Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies (CAIRNS). This exhibit is based on a traditional Lakotan narrative about when White Buffalo Woman, an emissary from the Pte Oyate (Buffalo Nation), gave a sacred pipe (White Buffalo Calf pipe) to the Itazipco…

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18th Illustrator Show

The Brinton Museum’s 18th Illustrator Show features twenty-eight of Waddell’s original illustrations from four of his children’s books including works from his popular Tucker the Bernese Mountain Dog series, as well as a selection of illustrations from his 2015 book Memories of Childhood. Writer Lynn…

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Father Peter J. Powell

With heavy hearts we share the sad news that Father Peter J. Powell passed away peacefully on December 15, 2022 at his home in Chicago surrounded by his family. A long-time friend of the museum and an original Board Member since its inception as The…

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Northern Cheyenne Dull Knife Fight (1876) Buffalo Robe

THE BRINTON MUSEUM (Big Horn, WY) in collaboration with the Northern Cheyenne Tribe presents a commemoration ceremony on the day of the 146th anniversary of the Dull Knife Fight celebrating the return of the Dull Knife Painted Buffalo Robe. The observance takes place in the…

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The Brinton Museum board of directors looks to the future and sustainability of the institution as they promote Kendra Heimbuck to Executive Director and concentrate Ken Schuster’s time on recording the history of The Brinton Museum and curatorial functions. This transition in leadership is part…

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Museum Store Sunday

On Sunday, November 27, 2022, the Museum Store at The Brinton Museum is thrilled to participate in Museum Store Sunday, an annual holiday shopping day supporting cultural institutions and their stores. This year, more than 1,800 museum stores representing all 50 states and the District…

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The Brinton 101” small works show

THE BRINTON MUSEUM (Big Horn, WY) hosts the The Brinton 101 small works show exhibit opening in the S. K. Johnston, Jr. Family Gallery and the Jacomien Mars Reception Gallery on November 5. The small works show features nearly 100 talented artists from throughout the…

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New Exhibits at The Brinton Museum

The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) presents three new exhibits opening in September featuring works by three Lakota artists and five national artists in this year’s Artists in Residence group show. Last of the Lakota Dream Catchers represents the first two-person exhibit at The Brinton…

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Bighorn Rendezvous at The Brinton Museum

The Brinton Museum presents Bighorn Rendezvous Exhibit opening on July 9 and continuing through August 27. This show features thirteen award-winning artists from Wyoming, Montana, Colorado and Washington, presenting paintings and bronzes in a display of their work preceding the museum’s Bighorn Rendezvous Quickdraw & Art…

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Articles of a Treaty, an educational art exhibit about the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty

The Brinton Museum presents Articles of a Treaty, an educational art exhibit about the historic 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, developed by the Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies (CAIRNS), an Indian-controlled nonprofit research and education center located at Wingsprings in the Lacreek District…

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Master Leather Carving from North American and Japan: Design and Cultural Influences

The Brinton Museum in Big Horn, Wyoming, presents Master Leather Carving from North American and Japan: Design and Cultural Influences, on exhibit in the Forrest E. Mars, Jr. Building’s Jacomien Mars Reception Gallery, beginning May 12. This cross-cultural, outstanding exhibition includes the best of the…

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The Artwork of Ludmila Dranchak

The Brinton Museum presents The Artwork of Ludmila Dranchak exhibit, opening in the Jacomien Mars Reception Gallery on March 7. This represents the first time a retrospective from this intriguing artist’s fascinating portfolio is on display at this Museum. The Brinton Museum’s exhibit comprises more…

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All-Schools 5th Grade Student Art Show & 17th Illustrator Show

The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) starts its 2022 season with two creative exhibits showcasing art by talented 5th Grade Students from Sheridan County, and beyond, and original art by award-winning artist Greg Newbold featured in the 17th Illustrator Show. The Museum’s All-Schools 5th Grade…

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Kent McCain – Classical Realism and The Graveyard Shift

Kent McCain – Classical Realism and The Graveyard Shift, on display in the S. K. Johnston, Jr. Family Gallery and the Jacomien Mars Reception Gallery, beginning October 23. The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) features two new exhibits, Kent McCain – Classical Realism and The…

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“Artists in Residence” Show

THE BRINTON MUSEUM (Big Horn, WY) presents an exhibit of art by five award-winning women artists from the region, and beyond. Each was invited by The Brinton for a residency in 2020 to create art for a feature exhibit presented at The Brinton Museum in…

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Bighorn Rendezvous Quickdraw at The Brinton Museum

THE BRINTON MUSEUM (Big Horn, WY) presents Bighorn Rendezvous Quickdraw on the beautiful Quarter Circle Ă Ranch grounds, Saturday, August 21, from 9 AM to 1 PM. The public is encouraged to stroll The Brinton property and meet and interact with twelve award-winning, highly talented…

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The Art of Robert Martinez

THE BRINTON MUSEUM (Big Horn, WY) presents an exhibition of contemporary art by the award-winning Northern Arapaho artist and 2019 Governor’s Arts Award recipient Robert Martinez from Riverton, Wyoming. Featured in a one-person show of his paintings and drawings, Martinez was born on the Wind…

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“Bravery, Beauty & Sacred Power”, an Educational Symposium

The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) presents an educational symposium, Bravery, Beauty & Sacred Power, on the American photographer Edward S. Curtis’ photogravure portraits from his North American Indian folios. This program will be held on Saturday, June 12, beginning at 9:30 a.m. in The…

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“T. Allen Lawson: Recollections and Reflections”

THE BRINTON MUSEUM (Big Horn, WY) presents an exhibit of paintings by the award-winning Wyoming artist T. Allen Lawson, on display in the S. K. Johnston, Jr. Family Gallery beginning May 15th, and continuing through Labor Day. If it was merely a show of Western…

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“Bravery, Beauty & Sacred Power: The Cheyenne, Crow, Lakota & Blackfeet Portraits of Edward S. Curtis”

The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) presents the exhibit “Bravery, Beauty & Sacred Power: The Cheyenne, Crow, Lakota & Blackfeet Portraits of Edward S. Curtis” comprised of 75 photogravures from The North American Indian folios on loan from the Foundation for the Preservation of American…

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“Small Expressions”, Fiber Arts Show

THE BRINTON MUSEUM (Big Horn, WY), in partnership with Sheridan Creative Fiber Guild, presents “Small Expressions”, an annual juried exhibition showcasing 31 contemporary small-scale, mixed-media works using different fiber or textile techniques in a variety of media. This marvelous exhibit is originated by the Handweavers…

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The 16th Illustrator Show – A Look Back at the First 15 Years!

THE BRINTON MUSEUM (Big Horn, WY) presents its 16th Illustrator Show, featuring art from the first 15 years, 2003 through 2020. This exhibit will be on display in the S. K. Johnston, Jr. Family Gallery beginning February 14th and continues through March 7th. Featured are…

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“The Brinton 101” small works show at The Brinton Museum

THE BRINTON MUSEUM (Big Horn, WY) again presents “The Brinton 101”, its well-liked small works show featuring more than 100 talented artists from throughout the U.S.  Artwork in a variety of media and genres will be on display in the S. K. Johnston, Jr. Family…

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FINE ART BY LOCAL AND REGIONAL ARTISTS ON DISPLAY AT WELCOME MARKET HALL IN SHERIDAN

The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) in concert with Welcome Market Hall currently features a selection of paintings by local and regional artists in the Grand Room and adjoining customer areas of the recently opened fabulous Welcome Market Hall food court and bar in Sheridan.…

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Artists in Residence

The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) presents the exhibit “Artists in Residence”, a group show featuring ten artists who were invited by The Brinton Museum for art residencies in 2019 for an exhibition of their art on display in the Jacomein Mars Reception Gallery in…

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New England Artists Paint in Big Horn

The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) presents the exhibit New England Artists Paint in Big Horn, a plein air artists group show featuring eight artists from the greater New England area who visited Big Horn three years ago in the summer of 2018 to paint…

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Hunt for the Horned Toad

The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) presents The Hunt for the Horned Toad, an interactive scavenger hunt around the property of the Quarter Circle A Ranch. Ten bronze sculptures of a Horned Toad by artist Tony Hochstetler comprise the scavenger hunt. Nine of the Toad…

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The Art of Edward Borein & E. W. “Bill” Gollings

The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) presents The Art of Edward Borein & E. W. “Bill” Gollings on exhibit in the Jacomien Mars Reception Gallery beginning July 4th. Highlighting prints, drawings and paintings by Edward Borein (1872-1945) and Bill Gollings (1878-1932) from The Brinton Museum’s…

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Print Show Awards!

2020 Print Show Awards The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) presents its inaugural juried print invitational “Printmaking in the Rockies and on the Great Plains” currently on exhibit in the Jacomien Mars Reception Gallery, available to visitors through July 1, 2020. This show was juried…

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2020 Spring Exhibits

“15th Illustrator Show – Theodore Waddell”   The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) presents two new exhibits opening in March. This year’s Illustrator Show features original art by the award-winning, nationally-known painter and printmaker Theodore Waddell from Hailey, Idaho. Waddell studied art at the Brooklyn…

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The Brinton 101

The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) (August 26, 2019) The Brinton Museum’s 2019 small works show, The Brinton 101, opens in the Jacomien Mars Reception Gallery and the S. K. Johnston, Jr. Family Gallery in October with a reception to meet the artists on Sunday,…

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Brinton Artists in Residence

The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) (August 1) presents the first in a series of exciting, new exhibitions, Brinton Artists in Residence, beginning this September. The 2019 Brinton Artists in Residence show features six diverse, nationally recognized artists who were invited for two-weeks residencies in…

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Cowboy Ethics – A Life Well Lived

The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) (July 25) presents the exhibition, Cowboy Ethics – A Live Well Lived, featuring 10 mural paintings along with a selection of drawings and sketches by nationally known Wyoming artist and illustrator Zachary Pullen. This exhibit opens in the S.…

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“The Spiritual Nature of Earth, Hide and Metal”

The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) presents The Spiritual Nature of Earth, Hide and Metal, a collaborative invitational exhibition showcasing nationally and internationally known artists Jody Folwell, Susan Folwell, James F. Jackson and JhonDuane Goes In Center, working in the mediums of clay, leather and…

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“Linework to Linen: The Prints and Paintings of Joel Ostlind”

The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) presents Linework to Linen: The Prints and Paintings of Joel Ostlind, an exhibit of intaglios and oil paintings by Wyoming artist Joel Ostlind, opening in the S. K. Johnston, Jr. Family Gallery on June 15th.  Born in Casper (WY)…

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Brinton Artists in Residence

The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) (June 19) presents the first in a series of exciting, new exhibitions, Brinton Artists in Residence, beginning this September. The 2019 Brinton Artists in Residence show features six diverse, nationally recognized artists who were invited for two-weeks residencies in…

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Cowboy Ethics – A Life Well Lived

The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) (June 18) presents the exhibition, Cowboy Ethics – A Live Well Lived, featuring 10 mural paintings along with a selection of drawings and sketches by nationally known Wyoming artist and illustrator Zachary Pullen. This exhibit opens in the S.…

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“Ergo Sum: A Crow a Day”, featuring artist Karen Bondarchuk

The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) presents Ergo Sum: A Crow a Day, an exhibit featuring 365 original works of art by artist Karen Bondarchuk. Ergo Sum: A Crow a Day is originated by the Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin, and focuses on the…

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“Connecting the Past to the Future” St. Labre Indian Catholic Academy Student Art Exhibit

The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) presents an exhibit of American Indian art by students from St. Labre Indian Catholic Academy in Ashland, Montana, representing the first time The Brinton and St. Labre have collaborated on an American Indian student art show. “Connecting the Past…

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14th Illustrator Show, “Lakota Emergence” Art Exhibit

Lakota Emergence focuses entirely on the short Lakota emergence narrative titled, “How the Lakota Came Upon the World,” written down by James Walker sometime between 1896, when he first arrived at Pine Ridge to serve as the agency’s physician, and 1917 when it was published…

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All Schools 5th Grade Student Art Show

Participants in this year’s show include nearly one hundred fifty 5th grade students from the greater Sheridan county as well as St. Labre Indian Catholic Academy and Wyola Public School in Montana. The Brinton’s student art show presented annually in February is one of the…

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The 2018 BRINTON 101

BIG HORN, Wyo (November 1, 2018) The Brinton Museum will again present The Brinton 101 exhibit, featuring nearly 300 works of art by 101 talented, diverse artists from throughout the U.S. Included are paintings, watercolors, drawings, sculptures and mixed-media pieces of varying genre by local,…

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Bighorn Rendezvous Art Show & Sale

opening date: July 22, event dates: August 3 & 4, 2018 BIG HORN, Wyo (July 7, 2018) The Brinton Museum will again present Bighorn Rendezvous Art Show & Sale, featuring nearly 180 works of art by 33 members of the Northwest Rendezvous Group of Artists…

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Paul Waldum – WY & MT Landscapes

Wyoming and Montana artist Paul Waldum will be featured in a one-person show of his pastel paintings in the exhibition Paul Waldum – Wyoming and Montana Landscapes, presented at The Brinton Museum in Big Horn, Wyoming, in June and July, 2018.  Originally from Livingston, Montana,…

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Carrie Ballantyne COMES HOME

Wyoming artist Carrie Ballantyne will be featured in a retrospective exhibition of her portrait art at The Brinton Museum in Big Horn (WY) in June and July 2018. Carrie Ballantyne Comes Home includes works in oil, colored pencil and graphite, conté and charcoal, from the…

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The 2018 Brinton Leather Show

The Brinton Leather Show, on display in the Jacomien Mars Reception Gallery, April 29 to June 8, 2018 The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) presents The Brinton Leather Show, an international exhibition featuring eight master artisans of the prestigious Traditional Cowboy Arts Association (TCAA) and…

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13th Illustrator Show – Gennady Spirin

13th Illustrator Show Features Award-winning Russian Artist Gennady Spirin at The Brinton Museum, opening in the Jacomien Mars Reception Gallery, March 15 The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) presents the 13th Illustrator Show, featuring Russian born artist and internationally known children’s storybook illustrator, Gennady Spirin.…

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150th Anniversary – Treaty of Fort Laramie

The Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY) will present the 150th Anniversary – Treaty of Fort Laramie exhibition, featuring rare, historically important photographs by the celebrated nineteenth century American photographer Alexander Gardner, a Scottish-born immigrant who is known for his emotionally moving photographs of Indian Delegations…

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The BRINTON 101

BIG HORN, Wyo (October 24, 2017) The Brinton Museum presents The Brinton 101, a holiday invitational exhibit featuring nearly 300 works of art in varying media by 101 artists from across the country, including local artists from the area. Formerly, the Small Works Show, The…

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The Brinton Museum Joins Smithsonian Magazine’s 13th Annual Museum Day Live!

Big Horn, WY (September 13, 2017)— The Brinton Museum will open its doors free of charge on Saturday September 23, 2017, as part of Smithsonian magazine’s thirteenth annual Museum Day Live!, an initiative in which participating museums across the United States emulate the spirit of…

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Gary Erbe

BIG HORN, Wyo (September 11, 2017) The Brinton Museum presents the exhibit Gary Erbe: 50 Year Retrospective, featuring thirty-four vibrant works created in the contemporary style of modern trompe l’oeil. Internationally known, Gary Erbe’s iconic images of Americana comprise a wide-range of subjects familiar to…

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Wyoming Point of View

The Brinton Museum presents the exhibit Wyoming Point of View, featuring more than thirty paintings by five talented Western landscape artists, on display in the Jacomien Mars Reception Gallery, beginning September 10th. A selection of sketches in graphite, watercolor and pastel on display in the…

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A One-Day Seminar on “BUFFALO CULTURE”

BIG HORN, Wyo (August 9, 2017) The Brinton Museum will host an enlightening, one-day seminar on Buffalo Culture, presented by Linwood Tallbull of the Northern Cheyenne, in the Jacomien Mars Reception Gallery on Sunday, August 27, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Linwood Tallbull, a…

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Whence I Come

BIG HORN, Wyo (August 7, 2017) The Brinton Museum presents the exhibit Whence I Come, featuring works in fused glass and ceramics by internationally-known artist Marianne Vinich from Lander. Marianne is an artist and an educator of incredible versatility who creates works in glass, ceramics,…

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Splendor of the Elements: The Hidden Beauty of American Indian Dance

BIG HORN, Wyo (June 26, 2017) The Brinton Museum presents the exhibit, Splendor of the Elements: The Hidden Beauty of American Indian Dance, featuring vibrant, colorful photographs on high-gloss metal by Wyoming artist Paula A. Wilcox. Self-taught as a photographer, Paula’s fascination with Indian costume…

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Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio

BIG HORN, Wyo (June 13, 2017) The Brinton Museum presents the exhibit, Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio: Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America, featuring twenty-five original, first issue, first edition, hand-colored lithographed plates from George Catlin’s nineteenth century work,…

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Sentinel Dedication

Big Horn, WY (June 20, 2017) The official dedication of the “Sentinel of the Plains” sculpture by Gerald Anthony Shippen, commissioned by Forrest and Jacomien Mars, is scheduled for Saturday, July 1 at 1:30 p.m. at The Brinton Museum. The monumental-size piece was installed last…

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12th Illustrator Show

BIG HORN, Wyo (March 2, 2017) The Brinton Museum presents its 12th Illustrator Show – The Art of John Potter, featuring works by award-winning artist and illustrator John Potter of Red Lodge, Montana. The Illustrator Show opens on March 15th in the Jacomien Mars Reception…

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Joel Ostlind Demo

Big Horn, Wyo (March 6, 2017) The Brinton Museum will host a printmaking demonstration on intaglio by Wyoming artist Joel Ostlind in the Jacomien Mars Reception Gallery on Saturday, March 18 at 1 p.m. Ostlind will demonstrate the intaglio process by doing a printing demonstration…

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David Plowden Photography Exhibit

BIG HORN, Wyo (April 13, 2017) The Brinton Museum presents David Plowden’s High Plains: Sixty Years of Photographs, an exhibit of black-and-white documentary photographs of small town main streets, churches, grain elevators, steam trains, sweeping panoramas of farmland and endless skies, and the ‘salt of…

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TCAA Spring Roundup

BIG HORN, Wyo (May 8, 2017) The Brinton Museum presents Spring Roundup with the Traditional Cowboy Arts Association, an international exhibition featuring fourteen master artisans of the prestigious TCAA. A nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the standard of time-honored craftsmanship in the cowboy arts, the…

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Gollings & Kleiber: In the Classroom

BIG HORN, Wyo (March 2, 2017) The Brinton Museum presents Gollings & Kleiber: In the Classroom, featuring outstanding paintings and fine intaglios by two of Wyoming’s celebrated artists who lived and worked in Sheridan County. This show opens in the S. K. Johnston, Jr. Family…

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Free Admission to The Brinton Museum on Sept. 24, Smithsonian Museum Day Live!

BIG HORN, Wyo. (Sept. 19, 2016) — The Brinton Museum will join museums across the nation to celebrate Smithsonian magazine’s 12th annual Museum Day Live! by offering free admission all day on Saturday, Sept. 24.

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Fourth Annual Small Works Show at the Brinton Museum to Feature More Than 150 Artists From Across the U.S.

BIG HORN, Wyo (August 25, 2016) The Brinton Museum presents its 4th annual Small Works Show this September, featuring more than 300 works of art by 152 artists from 26 states across the U.S. This exhibit is an all-media invitational that includes affordable, exceptional paintings,…

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The Brinton Musemm Announces Bighorn Rendezvous Art Show & Sale Awards

BIG HORN, Wyo. (August 18, 2016) – This past weekend The Brinton Museum hosted its first Bighorn Rendezvous Art Show & Sale on the Quarter Circle A Ranch, featuring 46 artists, 168 works for sale, plus a quick draw and auction.

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The Brinton Museum Presents Canyons & Crescendos: Music of The American West on August 25

  BIG HORN, Wyo. (July 11, 2016) – This summer The Brinton Museum presents Canyons & Crescendos: Music of the American West, an evening exploring the fascinating history of popular cowboy songs. From the open range era through the classic Westerns of the 1960s to the…

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Northwest Rendezvous Group of Artists to Reunite for Bighorn Rendezvous Art Show & Sale August 5 – 6

Big Horn, Wyo. (June 15, 2016) — This summer the Northwest Rendezvous Group of Artists moves to The Brinton Museum for the very first Bighorn Rendezvous Art Show & Sale – the museum’s most anticipated event of 2016. Thirty-seven painters and sculptors plus nine special guest artists…

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The Brinton Museum to Host Clyde Aspevig in Landscape & Beyond from June 5—July 31

  BIG HORN, Wyo (June 1, 2016) – The Brinton Museum will feature nationally acclaimed American landscape painter Clyde Aspevig for his solo exhibit, Clyde Aspevig: Landscape & Beyond, from June 5 through July 31 in the Forrest E. Mars, Jr. Building’s Jacomien Mars Reception…

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The Brinton Welcomes Top U.S. Portraitist & Western Pulp Fiction Artist, May 1 – July 4

Big Horn, Wyo. (April 13, 2016) — This May The Brinton Museum will welcome the nation’s foremost portrait artist Everett Raymond Kinstler and his exhibition, Journeys West And Beyond. Kinstler has painted more than 1,500 portraits, including 60 U.S. cabinet officials, seven presidents, two first…

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Brinton Museum Opens March 15, Announces 2016 Exhibition Schedule

  BIG HORN, Wyo. (March 15, 2016) —The Brinton Museum’s 2016 line-up of exhibitions and educational events will take full advantage of the new $15M, 24,000 square-foot Forrest E. Mars, Jr. Building. This year features highlights like Journeys West And Beyond by popular culture and…

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25th Annual Holiday Show, “Hanson and Oriet, On and Off the Wall”, Open Nov. 29-Dec. 20

BIG HORN, WYO. (November 23, 2015) — The Brinton Museum’s 25th Annual Holiday Show, Hanson & Oriet, On and Off the Wall, will feature more than 70 original works by two Wyoming artists, Ann Hanson of Shell and Julie Oriet of Cody. Their work will…

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Sheridan College and The Brinton Museum Introduce Spear-O at the Brinton

  Big Horn, Wyo. – (Sept. 29, 2015) This July nine artists spent a week on retreat collecting ideas, sketching and painting at Spear-O-Wigwam, Northern Wyoming Community College’s Mountain Campus. Each day they ventured into the Bighorns, a full 8,300 feet above sea level, to…

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Things that Go Bump in the Night at The Brinton Museum

  BIG HORN, Wyo. (Sept. 29, 2015) Things That Go Bump in the Night, a Halloween extravaganza for children of all ages will be held at The Brinton Museum on Saturday, October 24, from 2 – 4 p.m., rain or shine.

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Brinton’s 3rd Annual Small Works Show Open Sept. 13 – Oct. 18

BIG HORN, Wyo. (Sept. 10, 2015) — The Brinton Museum will host its 2015 Small Works Show from Sept. 13 through Oct. 18 on the second and third floors of the new Forrest E. Mars Jr., Building, in the Jacomien Mars Reception Gallery. Members will…

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The Brinton Museum joins Smithsonian’s 11th Annual Museum Day Live!

BIG HORN, Wyo. (Sept. 8, 2015) — The Brinton Museum will join institutions across the nation to celebrate Smithsonian Magazine’s 11th annual Museum Day Live!, by offering free admission to patrons with Museum Day Live! tickets on Saturday, Sept. 26. Participating museums open their doors to…

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Meet The Artist Series Launches This Fall with Wyoming Poet Laureate Rose Hill

BIG HORN, Wyo. (September 3, 2015) – This September The Brinton Museum will present its new Meet The Artist series, an educational program introducing patrons of all ages to a wide variety of artists, poets, writers, artisans, scientists and other professionals. “This series will take…

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The Brinton Hosts Lecture by Father Peter J. Powell Aug. 13

BIG HORN, Wyo. (July 31, 2015) – The Brinton Museum will host a lecture by Father Peter J. Powell, distinguished guest speaker and associate curator of the “To Honor The Plains Nations” exhibit. The lecture occurs at 7 p.m. on August 13 in the new…

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The Brinton Museum Launches Signature Lecture Series for 2015-16

BIG HORN, Wyo. (July 9, 2015) – The Brinton Museum and Sheridan College are co-hosting an educational Signature Lecture Series presented by historian Tyson Emborg, an American Government teacher at Sheridan High School with a passion for local history and family roots in the Little Goose…

BIG HORN, Wyo. (June 10, 2015) — The Brinton Museum opened its new state-of-the-art Forrest E. Mars, Jr. Building June 15, according to Ken Schuster, chief curator and executive director of the museum. Located on the 620-acre historic Quarter Circle A Ranch in Big Horn, 12…