Latest Piece!
Ear 'em Down
Acrylic on Metal
Ear ‘em Down
will be at
The Legends West Art Show
At Shonkin Event Center
Great Falls, Montana
I also have a piece of art in the
First Strike Friday Night Auction at
The Russell
A Western Art Experience
March 19-21, 2026
Great Falls Montana
Evelyn Cameron, 1868 - 1928 was a photographer and diarist of the American West, who documented her life as a pioneer in Eastern, Montana from the late 1890s onward. She captured this image of an unnamed Elliot Outfit cowboy in 1908, holding the left ear to safely mount a horse that perhaps two weeks prior had been untouched by human hands. Earing Down a horse is an old-fashioned handling technique where a cowboy grabs, twists and sometimes bites a horse's ear. This action momentarily helps control difficult, or untamed, horses.
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Dan Abernathy: an artist and purveyor of words. Dan is well known for his art, and also as a writer. His voice, be it in his words or his art, is a collection of oddities, fascinations, and obsessions – a road map of sorts, tracking the life of a man that can’t and won’t fit in.
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