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Collection The Holter Museum of Art's collection of 1,500 works focuses on modern and contemporary paintings, ceramics, sculpture, and works on paper by regional artists, particularly those who live or have lived in Montana. The collection includes work by the internationally renowned ceramic artists Rudy Autio and Peter Voulkos, as well as many artists who have worked at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, by pre-modernist Elizabeth Lochrie, by Montana’s first modernists—Robert DeWeese, Gennie DeWeese, Frances Senska, Jessie Wilber, and Lela Autio, by nationally known photographers who document the West—Richard Buswell, Barbara Van Cleve, Louise Serpa, and Joanne Berghold, and by many other important national and regional artists including Anne Appleby, Kate Hunt, John Buck, Clarice Dreyer, David Shaner, Kurt Weiser, Richard Notkin, and Ted Waddell. The Holter Museum of Art presents an on-going exhibition of work from the collection at all times and has published four catalogs about works in the collection: Rudy Autio: The Infinite Figure; Peter Koch: Nature Morte; Frances Senska: A Life in Art; and Robert DeWeese: A Look Ahead. The primary mission of the collection is the preservation of significant aspects of Montana's contemporary cultural and artistic heritage, beginning with the birth of Montana's Modernism. The collection seeks to embrace the highest quality works by regional artists. The collection augments the museum’s ability for advocacy of the arts by providing a record of modernist and contemporary artistic endeavor and making these works accessible to the public. The Holter Museum seeks to add to the scholarship of this region through use of the collection for research and publication as well as the formulation of traveling exhibitions. The Holter Museum of Art strives to preserve and protect this collection by providing the best facilities and resources for its maintenance, adhering to accepted professional standards of storage, handling and exhibition, and providing quality professional conservation to ensure the continuity of the collection. |
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