Montana Plains Tipi
- 1892
Pen & Ink on Antique Map

Montana The Big Sky State
Montana has 97 mountain ranges, over 3,000 pristine lakes and numerous beautiful rivers, including the Yellowstone, the longest undammed river in the continental U.S. Montana has no official nickname, but unofficially “Big Sky” has become one. The “Big Sky'' in reference to Montana, was first coined by Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. B. Guthrie in his 1947 novel, The Big Sky. It epitomized the realistic depiction of untamed landscape. Since then, the image of Big Sky has been successfully branded into the mystic of Montana.
       I have combined antique maps with my version of stippling and watercolors into my own creative perspectives. The background for this drawing of a Plains Indian Tipi is on an original map of Montana, showing the reservations of the time, was published in 1892, in a Geo. F. Cram Mast, Atlas.