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 Welcome! We hope you enjoy your virtual tour of one of the most active art museums in the northwest. Whether it's the incredibly diverse contemporary art scene or the work of groundbreaking artists from the past, our mission is ART! We are Montana's premier art museum, presenting Montana's most forward-looking artists and bringing here to Montana historic and world art significant for our region.
As you travel through our web site, you'll find information about our collections and programs, and discover ways that you can help us continue to build on our past and present successes. Join us and be where the art is!
Robyn G. Peterson, Executive Director
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 Auction, Saturday, March 6, 2010
The artwork featured in the exhibition showcases the eclectic and pleasing mix of styles that has come to characterize the culture of Montana. Artwork ranges from "cutting edge" contemporary to traditional landscape to Western and includes painting, sculpture, ceramics, furniture, and jewelry. All of the proceeds from Art Auction 42 help to fund the Museum's exhibitions and education programs.
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On view in the Murdock Gallery until April 2010
 Private collector William I. Koch shares 11 choice selections from his private collection with Montana audiences. Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) was one of the French Fauves ("Wild Beasts"), painters whose exuberant works introduced a new freedom in form and color.
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January 15 - June 20, 2010
 For more than thirty years Montana artist Deborah Butterfield has interpreted her equine muse in a plethora of materials, scales, postures, and moods. This exhibition highlights three sculptures by Butterfield from the YAM's permanent collection, and invites the viewer to experience three different constructivist approaches to her subject. Brown Horse Thought, the largest work in the exhibition, is an unusual, full-scale double portrait that is a recent gift from the artist.
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 March 19 - June 27, 2010
This small exhibition is a tribute to Frances Senska, an important Montana artist and educator. Senska died at her home in Bozeman on Christmas day. She was 95.
Senska was championed for her lifelong devotion to the ceramic arts, for her prolific career, and for nurturing several of the twentieth century's leading ceramists. She was elected an Honorary Member of the National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts in 1979 and Fellow of the American Craft Council in 1988.
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