Collection: Brent Cotton

Brent Cotton

Brent Cotton is an award-winning, nationally recognized artist based in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana. Working primarily in the tonalist and luminist traditions popularized in the late nineteenth century, he seeks to create paintings that convey mood, atmosphere, and a sense of timelessness.

An avid outdoorsman, Cotton can often be found on the region’s renowned rivers—fly rod in hand or guiding a drift boat. The Bitterroot Valley’s proximity to exceptional blue-ribbon trout streams is one of the many reasons he and his family have chosen to make it their home. His passion for the outdoors and fly-fishing has naturally led him to focus on sporting art within his broader body of work.

Cotton is the recipient of the 2018 Wilson Hurley Award for Best Landscape at the Prix de West Invitational at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, as well as the 2019 Victor Higgins Award for Best Body of Work at Quest for the West at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis.

His paintings are held in numerous private and corporate collections across the United States.

Cotton is represented by Trailside Gallery, Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Huey’s Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Mockingbird Gallery, Bend, Oregon; and Samarah Fine Art, Whitefish, Montana.