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Monte A. Dolack (born May 23, 1950)〔''Who's Who in America'', 2010.〕 is an American graphic artist who lives in Missoula, Montana, in the United States. ''Frommer's'' called him "one of the best-known artists in Montana."〔Peterson, p. 99.〕 He works primarily in watercolor, acrylic paint, poster art, and lithographs.〔George and George, p. 123.〕 Dolack's work often features whimsical animals in both a natural and artificial setting (such as a suburban living room), and has a worldwide following.〔McRae and Jewell, p. 41.〕 Dolack is considered a key figure in the visual arts of the American West.〔Livingston, et al., p. 189.〕 Widely known in his home state of Montana,〔〔 Dolack has had his work exhibited worldwide.〔 Some of his work is highly collectible.〔 ==Life and career== Dolack was born in May 1950 to Michael George and Mary (Miller) D. Dolack.〔 His father had two sons from a previous marriage (Bob and Bill), while Mary gave birth to Monte and his sister, Marlene.〔"Obituaries." ''Great Falls Tribune.'' December 24, 2002.〕 He graduated from Great Falls High School in 1968.〔Madison, Erin. "Dolack's Second Yearbook Cover 'Graduates' From '68 Psychedelic to Famous Style for '07." ''Great Falls Tribune.'' December 15, 2006.〕 In his senior year, Dolack was chosen to design the cover of the GFHS yearbook, ''The Roundup''. His design was a then-fashionable contemporary art work (similar to a Jackson Pollock image) which a teacher in 2006 later described as "flat-out ugly".〔 He attended Montana State University in Bozeman from 1969 to 1970 and the University of Montana in Missoula from 1970 to 1974,〔 graduating with a bachelor's degree from the latter institution. While an undergraduate (in the days before Microsoft PowerPoint), Dolack often drew charts and graphs for the University of Montana Bureau of Business and Economic Research, which turned his work into photographic slides.〔"The Edge: More Boozers?" ''Great Falls Tribune.'' January 29, 2011.〕 Dolack married Linda LaFond in 1970, but they divorced in 1972.〔 After graduation, Dolack was employed by the Anaconda Copper Company and was a member of "Out of Sight" (a rock band).〔 He is generally considered to have begun his professional artistic career in 1974.〔 Dolack gained local notice for designing posters for the Crystal Theater, an art film theater in Missoula.〔Merriam, Ginny. "Tam and Joel Take Theater Nonprofit." ''The Missoulian.'' May 18, 1997.〕 By 1997, original Crystal Theater posters were collectors' items.〔 Dolack also created posters which he sold as artwork. Among his most important early works is "Yahoo," which depicts a cowgirl on a horse and an anti-nuclear power symbol at the bottom.〔Tilney, Victoria. "Poster Children: Retracing Missoula's Past Through Its Poster Art." ''Missoula Independent.'' June 13, 2002.〕 Dolack created the poster to commemorate the day the Missoula City Council voted to ban nuclear facilities within the city limits. Beginning in 1978, Dolack had a studio located at 132 W. Front Street in Missoula.〔Syvertson, Donna. "Taking It to the Street ... Monte Dolack's New Studio Is in on the Ground Floor." ''The Missoulian.'' August 4, 1993.〕 A 48-page color collection of his poster art, ''Catalog of Posters & Prints: Crystal Theatre'', was published in 1982. Dolack married artist Mary Beth Percival on May 11, 1984.〔 The same year, he began a series of works known as the "Invader series." The works feature animals "invading" human habitat, such as ducks swimming in a bathtub or a bear lying on the couch in a den in a house.〔 The following year, Dolack—who was already "a nationally known poster artist"—produced the cover of the book, ''Wings to the Orient: Pan American Clipper Planes, 1935–1945: A Pictorial History''.〔Cohen, p. ii.〕 Dolack's father, Michael, died the same year.〔 In 1989, Dolack'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.〔Flocken, Corrine. "Fast Forward: The Future Is Now at Museum Center in Fullerton, Where Young Optimist, Aging Cynicism Give Alternative Visions." ''Los Angeles Times.'' July 20, 1989.〕 In 1990, Dolack donated a watercolor ("Restoring the Wolf to Yellowstone") 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.〔Meagher, p. 80.〕 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 Dolack's art.〔"Defenders Reaches $100,000 Goal for Wolf Compensation Fund." Press release. Defenders of Wildlife. November 6, 1990.〕 The National Park Service in April 1990 banned the sale of the posters in Yellowstone and Glacier National Park.〔Gerhardt, Gary. "Yellowstone, Glacier Ban Sales of Pro-Wolf Poster." ''Rocky Mountain News.'' May 5, 1990; ("Park Bans Sale of Wolf Poster, Saying It Backs Predator's Return." ''Associated Press.'' April 25, 1990 ), accessed August 13, 2011.〕 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, Dolack 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 Dolack to create a new work (later titled "Resurrection") depicting a breached dam and the reintroduction of salmon and steelhead trout to the Snake River.〔Landers, Rich. "Pitched Battle for the Breach." ''The Spokesman-Review''. March 7, 1999.〕 The California clothing company Patagonia sold copies of the print through its stores and catalogs.〔Hansen, Dan. "Dams Catch Nation's Attention." ''The Spokesman Review.'' February 10, 1999.〕 The next year, Dolack's "Heron Blues" (a poster primarily in blue hues depicting a blue heron flying down a Montana city street at night) was included in the poetic collection ''Vagrant Grace''.〔Bottoms, p. 93.〕 In 2000, Dolack painted a acrylic work, "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.〔Johnson, Peter. "Dolack Donates Art to GFH." ''Great Falls Tribune.'' April 19, 1999.〕 The work hung in the C.M. Russell Museum, one of the nation's premier Western art museums,〔Yost, Mark. "A Home Where the Buffalo Roam." ''The Wall Street Journal.'' February 26, 2009.〕 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'.'〔Glendening, jacket flap.〕 The same year, Farcountry Press published a retrospective book, ''Monte Dolack, The Works'', featuring his work.〔Downey, Mark. "Decades of Dolack." ''Great Falls Tribune.'' October 29, 2000.〕 In December 2001, Dolack created a new work, the "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.〔"Bank Buys Dolack Print." ''Great Falls Tribune.'' February 26, 2002.〕 Posters of the work were used to raise money for the center, but it was sold for an undisclosed sum to First Interstate BancSystem three months later.〔 Dolack's mother, Mary, died in 2002.〔 In 2003, the University of Montana's Montana World Trade Center arranged for several exhibits of Dolack's work in Ireland as part of a trade mission.〔McDonald, Colin. "Trade Center Takes Local Business Wares to Ireland." ''The Missoulian.'' July 15, 2003.〕 The showings were so popular and gained such notice in the worldwide art community that showing of Dolack's work in New Zealand were also arranged in 2004.〔"Art Exhibited to Increase Montana's International Recognition." ''Associated Press.'' January 19, 2004.〕 Dolack was given a second chance to design his high school's yearbook in 2006. For the yearbook's 100th edition, Dolack contributed his recently completed "Montana Power"—which depicts a bison in a field of dry grass, with Square Butte in the background.〔 That same year, Dolack's "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.''〔Schullery, rear jacket.〕 Two years later, Dolack's 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.〔"New Textbook Makes Montana History Lively." ''Great Falls Tribune.'' September 21, 2008.〕 On April 6, 2009, Dolack suffered a serious heart attack.〔"Montana Artist Dolack Recovering From Heart Attack." ''Associated Press.'' April 18, 2009.〕 Taken to St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center, Dolack underwent open-heart surgery, and a stent implanted in an artery to improve blood supply to his heart.〔 The next year, Dolack's "Upper Missouri River Suite," which consists of three hand-drawn lithographs, was added to the art collection hanging at the new Missouri River Federal Courthouse in Great Falls.〔Johnson, Peter. "Missouri River Federal Courthouse: Building in Need of Works of Art." ''Great Falls Tribune.'' March 17, 2010.〕 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 Dolack works which featured forests.〔"To Celebrate the International Year of Forests, UNECE and FAO Set Up "Temporary Forest" Inside the Palais des Nations Building in Geneva." Press release. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. February 14, 2011.〕 The exhibition, "The Art of Trees—A Forest Gallery", also includes displays of innovative wood products and artwork made of wood.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Monte Dolack」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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