Museum of the Rockies at Montana State University is pleased to announce the opening of two new exhibits on Saturday, September 20, 2014, by world-recognized artists Clyde Butcher and Lynda Lanker.

America the Beautiful: The Monumental Art of Clyde Butcher brilliantly portrays the American landscape in stunning black & white photographs. Each work, emphasized by its epic presentation size, provides a stirring look at America in all of its majesty. Butcher continues the tradition of the nineteenth-century Hudson River school painters, composing his works at strikingly beautiful and untarnished locations across the United States.

Tough by Nature: Portraits of Cowgirls and Ranch Women of the American West is an inspiring exhibit by Lynda Lanker that reveals the strength and invincible spirit of ranch women and cowgirls in paintings, works on paper and prints. Lanker's compositions document a vanishing way of life that affirmed the role of women in the economy and ecology of the West, each work offering a captivating look at these iconic women who gain their sustenance and livelihood from the land.

The two new exhibits will fill the Museum's front and back halls of the main gallery and run through February 15, 2015. Geckos - Tails to Toepads, MOR's hugely popular live-animal exhibit, will close Monday, September 8, 2014.

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