Monte was chosen by Wilderness50 and Wilderness Watch to create the official national poster celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act. For more about the Wilderness Act, visit Wilderness Watch's website. A poster was reproduced from this painting and is available here. The poster is no longer available signed.

Wilderness Paintings thoughts
"I worked through several ideas for this commissioned painting thinking about the important individuals who contributed to the idea of preserving Wild places. It is diverse and many people made this happen. I decided instead to focus on a rather formal portrait of some of the animals of our wild places with a backdrop of some of the wilderness areas across the United States. This painting for the 50th anniversary of the American Wilderness Act is about the interconnectedness of life and richness of landscape. All of our wilderness areas, though separated from each other physically are non-the-less connected, as is everything on this small planet spinning in space. The idea of the Peaceable Kingdom of Wilderness springs from Edwards Hicks’ 1820 Peaceable Kingdom which is folkloric in nature.

It is one of the best ideas we as a nation have ever had."

Monte Dolack  
5/23/14

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