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o one over the last quarter century has conveyed our special ineffable bond
with big natural landscapes — and the sense of common guardianship we feel
for them in our bones — more sensuously than Missoula painter Monte Dolack.
Dolack, a native son, has reproductions of his
work hanging prolifically in homes and offices from
coast to coast. His lithographs celebrating iconic
wildlife, high plains scenes that make the heart
sigh, winding blue ribbon rivers (reflecting Dolack's
own passion for angling), and the jagged peaks that
give Montana its name — these are his best-known
visual signatures.
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Today, Dolack the Baby Boomer is enjoying
perhaps the most satisfying, impactful stretch
of his career. Demand for original paintings has
never been greater, rivaling even those of Charlie Russell. Later this year, an ambitious one-man
exhibition, "Altered State," is slated to open at the
Holter Museum of Art in Helena. And, Dolack just
received word that a number of prominent national
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