GREAT FALLS — There's still a few days to check out the "O.C. Seltzer's West" exhibit at the CMR Museum in Great Falls.
Western artist Olaf Carl "O.C." Seltzer was best known for his water coloring painting and was also good friends with iconic artist Charlie Russell. The two would meet up and trade and critique each other’s art.
The CMR museum hopes that visitors learn a few things from the current Seltzer exhibit.
“Just an appreciation for OC Seltzer if they hadn’t already known so much about him. I think we are unique in Great Falls having two successful well-known western artists that both lived here in Great Falls and work together," said Brenda Kornick, the Director of Collections Exhibitions
There are more than 60 items in the collection. The exhibit runs through Sunday, January 5th.
The CMR Museum is located at 400 13th Street North. Click here to visit the website, which includes this overview:
In 1892 at the age of 14, Olaf Carl (O.C.) Seltzer (1877–1957) emigrated with his mother from Scandinavia to Giant Springs, Montana near Great Falls. Embracing the American West, Seltzer became passionate about documenting western culture through his prolific painting. It is this pursuit that ties him most closely to cowboy artist Charles Russell who likewise was inspired to paint the West that had passed. Russell had lived as a cowboy twenty years prior, and both he and Seltzer were driven to bring the West to life through their art. On display at the C. M. Russell Museum, O.C. Seltzer’s West examines Seltzer’s early life, and experiences explore his maturation as an artist on the Northern Plains of Montana and his friendship with Russell and celebrate a number of his major works that now reside in private and public collections.
