Collection: Cotton, Brent

Brent Cotton is an award-winning, nationally recognized artist who lives in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana. He prefers to paint in the tonalist/luminist style made popular in the late 1800s, seeking to create works that evoke a mood and have a timeless quality.

An avid outdoorsman, Cotton can often be found standing in one of the local rivers with a fly rod in his hand or at the oars of his drift boat. The close proximity to some amazing blue-ribbon trout streams is one of the many reasons he and his family make their home in the Bitterroot Valley. This passion has led Cotton to focus on sporting art, particularly fly-fishing, in his work.

He is the recipient of the 2018 Wilson Hurley Award for Best Landscape at Prix de West Invitational at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City and 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 work can be found in many private and corporate collections throughout the country.

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.