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The mineral extraction industry, including oil and gas, is the main driver of the Wyoming economy, accounting for more than three-fifths of the state's revenues. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Travel and tourism is the second-largest sector in the state, providing $3.3 billion to the state's economy, with $170 million in tax revenues in 2015, along with 32,000 ...
Founded in 1981 by Raymond Plank, [2] Ucross is located on a 20,000-acre working cattle ranch in northeastern Wyoming. The Big Red Ranch Complex, which includes the Foundation’s main offices and a renovated barn that houses a public art gallery, was built in 1882 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [3]
Schwiering became a painter in Jackson Hole, Wyoming in 1947, [2] and he opened a gallery in the Wort Hotel the following year. [3] One of his mentors was Clifford Hansen, who subsequently served as the governor of Wyoming. [1] Schwiering did paintings of Wyoming landscapes, including the Tetons.
Liquitex is a US company that supplies art materials, focusing exclusively on the development, manufacture and distribution of acrylic paints. Founded by Henry Levison as "Permanent Pigments" in 1955, the company created the first water-based acrylic gesso. That same year, Levison decided to reorganize the company under the name "Liquitex".
The slogan, "Powder River — Let 'er Buck" and was taken into the trenches as a password and counter-password by troops from that unit in Europe. Descendants of those soldiers were still serving with the Wyoming National Guard in 2014. [3] The silhouette of the horse and rider is still in use today on uniforms of the Wyoming National Guard ...
James Elliott Bama (April 28, 1926 – April 24, 2022) was an American artist known for his realistic paintings and etchings of Western subjects. Life in Wyoming led to his comment, "Here an artist can trace the beginnings of Western history, see the first buildings, the oldest wagons, saddles and guns, and be up close to the remnants of Indian culture ...
Bierstadt commented on the Shoshone people he saw in a letter from July 10, 1859, which The Crayon, an art magazine, published in September 1859. [15] "The manners and customs of the Indians are still as they were hundreds of years ago, and now is the time to paint them, for they are rapidly passing away, and soon will be known only in history.
Benson's daughter Sylvia owned the painting before it was bequeathed to the National Gallery of Art in 1977. [4] SIRIS Collection Number 08600941 [3] Girl in a Red Shawl: oil on canvas: 1890: 32.3 in x 32.3 in (82 cm x 82 cm) The painting is a portrait of girl seated facing left with right hand clasping red shawl at her chest.