ART OF THE WEST RECEPTION
January 30, 2018 from 6 - 8 p.m.
Halleck Bar Gallery
Our annual Art of the West reception highlights the artist that is featured in the Halleck Bar Gallery during the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. This year, we are honored to exhibit Billy Schenck, a well-known contemporary artist who specializes in western landscape and cowboy pop art. Join us for hors d’oeuvres and cocktails at the Halleck Bar, and mingle with our artist. Every year, the Northeastern Nevada Museum purchases one work of art from the Art of the West show. If you are a member of the Great Basin Western Art Foundation, you have the opportunity to vote on which piece will be added to the museum collection. Visit www.museumelko.org to learn how you can become a part of the Great Basin Western Art Foundation.
The Northeastern Nevada Museum’s Barrick Gallery
will feature select works and new works by emerging
local artist, Myles Crouch during this year’s Art of the
West Show. Crouch is a gifted bead and ledger artist.
He has shown his work at local galleries and has
exhibited in New Mexico and Montana as early as the
age of 14. He grew up watching his mother paint,
spending many hours immersed in the art world with his
family traveling to different art shows. His love for
drawing is expressed in the form of storytelling in
Native American Ledger Art. Crouch’s work is vibrant
and full of multicolored suns and playful ceremonial
dancers.
Miles Crouch
Billy Schenck, Sand Hills, Oil on Canvas
