known poster artist "— produced the cover of the book , Wings to the Orient : Pan American Clipper Planes , 1935 – 1945 : A Pictorial History . In 1989 , Monte ' s painting " Fast Forward " was featured in the show " Looking Forward " that exhibited emerging important artists , sponsored by the American Institute of Graphic Artists in Los Angeles . In 1990 , Dolack donated a watercolor depicting wolves looking over a plain of geysers and hot mud springs to the conservation group Defenders of Wildlife , with sales of the poster going to a fund to compensate local ranchers for the loss of livestock incurred due to the reintroduction of grey wolves into Yellowstone National Park . Although the fund also received donations from other foundations and proceeds from a benefit concert by rock artist James Taylor , the majority of the fund ' s proceeds came from sales of Monte ' s art . The National Park Service in April 1990 banned the sale of the posters in Yellowstone and Glacier National Park . By 1993 , his work had been shown in " hundreds of galleries , including some in Japan , Germany and France ". That same year , he moved to a new , larger gallery at 139 W . Front Street . In 1998 , Monte donated his popular 1986 watercolor , " Blackfoot River ," to the Blackfoot Legacy foundation for use as a fundraiser to oppose construction of a gold mine near Lincoln , Montana . The following year , the Idaho Rivers United foundation commissioned him to create a new work depicting a breached dam and the reintroduction of salmon and steelhead trout to the Snake River . The California clothing company Patagonia sold copies of the print through its stores and catalogs .
Home on the Reef by Monte Dolack
In 1999 , Monte ' s poster of a blue heron flying down a Montana city street at night was included in the poetic collection Vagrant Grace . In 2000 , Monte created an acrylic painting , " A History Lesson ," which depicted a full-grown American bison standing in a schoolroom which is decorated with pictures , symbols , blackboard writing , and other images important to Montana history . The work hung in the C . M . Russell Museum , one of the nation ' s premier Western art museums , before being donated to Great Falls High School . That same year , his painting " Streamside ," was featured on the cover of the academic work The Evolutionary Imagination in Late-Victorian Novels : An Entangled Bank , The same year , Farcountry Press published a retrospective book , Monte Dolack , The Works , featuring his work .
In December 2001 , Monte created , " Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery at the White Cliffs of the Missouri ," and donated it to the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center near Black Eagle Dam on the Great Falls of the Missouri River . Posters of the work were used to raise money for the center , but it was sold for an undisclosed sum to First Interstate Bank System three months later .
In 2003 , the University of Montana ' s Montana World Trade Center arranged for several exhibits of Monte ' s work in Ireland as part of a trade mission . The showings were so popular and gained such notice in the worldwide art community that showing of his work in New Zealand were also arranged in 2004 .
In 2006 Monte was once again given a chance to design his high school ' s yearbook . For the yearbook ' s 100th edition , he created a bison in a field of dry grass with the Square Butte in the background . That same year , " Mirage " ( a painting of rainbow trout leaping through a field of wheat as if it were water ) appeared on the cover of the book Cowboy Trout : Western Fly Fishing As If It Matters . Two years later , his 2000 work , " A History Lesson " ( now retitled " Montana History Lesson ") was used on the front cover of the history book Montana : Stories of the Land , published by the Montana Historical Society .
In 2010 , Monte ' s " Upper Missouri River Suite ," three hand-drawn lithographs , was added to the art collection hanging at the new Missouri River Federal Courthouse in Great Falls .
In 2011 , in celebration of the International Year of Forests , the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations planted 70 living trees in the Palais des Nations building in Geneva , Switzerland . In front of the temporary forest , the two organizations exhibited a large number of Monte ' s works which featured forests .
Dolack ’ s style is all his own . His working style is to sketch out ideas on a small piece of paper which he then pins to his
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