Landscapes | Connie Herberg

• As Night Descends

  Glass, Linen, 11 x 14 x .125

• Coat of Many Colors

  Oil, Linen, 11 x 14 x .125. Autumn paints a muted palette across the prairie, Where sage tucks soft notes of dusty blue, gray-green, and subtle purple Amid the sway of golden grasses. Juniper and sumac weave brighter th…

• Beartooth Icon

  Oil, Panel, 16 x 20 x .125

• The Quiet Bloom of Dawn

  Oil, Linen, 11 x 14 x .125

• Across the Wide Missouri

  Oil, Linen, 16 x 20 x .125. Wide and wonderful, the river bends, Curling, winding, stretching far— Long and lazy, a sojourner, Winding through farmland, towns, and cities, Leaving richness in its wake. Once a beast of b…

• On High

  Oil, Linen, 11 x 14 x .125

• After the First Cutting

  Oil, Linen, 24 x 30 x .125

• Limelight

  Oil, Linen, 11 x 14 x .125

• Puttin' on the Paint

  Oil, Linen, 12 x 24 x 1.5

• Cloud Dance

  Oil, Paper, 6 x 6 x .125

• Lamar River

  Oil, Linen, 11 x 14 x .125. Entering Yelllowstone National Park from the East entrance, a short drive takes you to the Lamar Valley. Here, a clean clear Lamar River flows. The river is teaming with trout and provides an…

• Sunset Abstract

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 8 x .125

• Winter Sunset

  Oil, Paper, 6 x 6 x .125

• Juniper and Rimrocks

  Oil, Linen, 11 x 14 x .125

• Rabbitbrush Bloom

  Oil, Canvas, 36 x 36 x 1.5. A prairie trail, through the blue green sage, is edged with the golden blooms of rabbitbrush as fall announces its arrival. This little dirt road beckons me to follow it into the mountains of…

• Rabbitbrush study

  Oil, Linen, 11 x 14 x .125. A prairie trail, through the blue green sage, is edged with the golden blooms of rabbitbrush as fall announces its arrival. This little dirt road beckons me to follow it into the mountains of…

• Sunny Peak

  Oil, Canvas, 36 x 36 x 1.5. The warming sun melts the lower elevation snow, so the green of spring vegetation begins to peak through and highlights the late spring snow on a high peak of the Beartooths in the Rocky Moun…

• Hanging Bough

  Oil, Linen, 14 x 11 x .125. A shaft of sunlight illuminates the hanging bough on a ponderosa pine setting it in stark contrast to the dark stand of pines behind.

• Still Standing

  Oil, Linen, 24 x 18 x .125

• Thunderstruck

  Oil, Canvas, 36 x 36 x 1.5

• Where the Mountains Meet the Sky

  Oil, Linen, 11 x 14 x .125

• Passage

  Oil, Linen, 11 x 14 x .125. I have taken the liberty of partially reconstructing this old barn, as the rock foundation was beginning to crumble. I am not certain as to its age, but the construction suggests that it was…

• One

  Oil, Linen, 14 x 11 x .125. The aspen may be the largest living organism on earth. Each tree is an extension of a single root system, a part of one single plant.

• Lamar Morning Mist

  Oil, Linen, 11 x 14 x .125. An early morning mist rises up from the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone National Park.

• Approaching Giant web

  Oil, Canvas, 36 x 36 x 1.5. A giant thunderstorm moves across the Montana prairie and feeds the wetlands, which are so vital to life on the plains.

• Sandstone and Sage

  Oil, Linen, 18 x 24 x .125. Montana landscapes stretch across sage covered plains to sandstone rims carved by the Yellowstone river as it snakes across the prairie.

• High Desert Drama

  Oil, Linen, 18 x 24 x .125. Montana is a diverse landscape that includes forests, mountains, rivers, and waving grain fields to high desert dry plains within this enormous state.

• On Solid Rock

  Oil, Canvas, 30 x 24 x 1.5

• Mammoth

  Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24 x 1.5

• Mullein, Rabbitbrush, and Sage

  Oil, Canvas, 16 x 12 x 1.5

• Quiet Passage

  Oil, Canvas, 36 x 36 x 1.5. Sometimes, in the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, the day goes out with a quiet sigh instead of a regal show. Each day is unique in its presentation.

• A Kiss Goodnight

  Oil, Canvas, 20 x 20 x 1.5

• Verdant Pastoral

  Oil, Panel, 11 x 14 x .125

• Transitions

  Oil, Panel, 11 x 14 x .125

• Sage Hill Spring

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. In the early Montana spring, dog and I took a short hike, through the Ah Nei BLM land, to photograph the billowing spring clouds rising above a blue sage landscape. The air was invigorating, with e…

• Rush

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16

• Tundra Melt at Top of the World

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 36. High in the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, at approximately 11000 ft, where the cold and wind beat the trees and grasses, and snow often visits 12 months of the year, is a tundra ecosystem. The pl…

• Summer Cascade

  Oil, Canvas, 8 x 8. I hear music in this summer stream, as it cascades over boulders rounded by eons of snow melt. In the Rockies, there are many such channels of runoff that transport the melting high mountain snows to…

• The Maple Tap

  Oil, Canvas, 36 x 48. In the winter of 2014, the snow piled high as storm after storm pummeled the Eastern Seaboard. West of Boston just a few miles is the town of Natick, MA and in that town, purchased and preserved by…

• Riding off into the Sunset

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 12. In the grain fields of NW North Dakota, the endless stretch of horizon paints a long lasting sunset. This is a view from the family farm yard. A view that is a nostalgic reminder for me, of horseba…

• Red Sky at night

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 12. A magnificent sunset show over the Bozeman landscape.

• Over the Top

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. Even in the bleakness of winter, when the world feels void of color, the prairie comes alive with the peach sky of sundown. Sage glow golden against the blue of distant hills and the deepening shad…

• Moss Rocks

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. Near Anaconda, MT there is a quiet, wooded area known as Lost Creek State Park. Here, a small stream dances through the trees. In spring there is a fair volume of water that runs through. But, in l…

• Kersey Falls

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14

• Fall on Rock Creek

  Oil, Canvas, 16 x 20. The foliage around Rock Creek dons stunning colors for the fall in Montana which is enhanced by the brilliant blue of the sky reflection in the water.

• As Summer Wanes

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30

• Reaching New Heights

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16 x .125. Donated to Christikon Auction 2023

• Winter Range

  Oil, Canvas, 48" x 48". Late fall, livestock are moved to pastures in vast areas of open grazing for winter range. Here they find meager grazing among the sage and as the snow accumulates, ranchers will supplement with…

• A Rainy June on the Southfork

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. The Southfork drainage of the Shoshone River in Wyoming, during a rainy June, spreads its banks and forms new side channels.

• Alpine High

  Oil, Canvas, 36 x 24. Traveling up the Beartooth Highway, as you near the top elevations, the timber becomes sparse and the landscape opens to beautiful carpets of wildflowers. At elevations of 11,000 ft you experience…

• After Spring Snow

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. A spring snow has graced the juniper wooded hillside with pure white, brilliant in the sunshine and contrasted against the sapphire stream of melt that flows down the slope.

• A Fork in the River

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 36

• A Patch of Snow

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. At nearly 11000 ft of altitude, summer comes slowly to the high tundra and jagged outcrops in the Rocky Mountains. The last bits of winter snow often remain until the first new snow of the next fal…

• All the Gold

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 36. The Yellowstone River, as the name denotes, is named for the yellow stones that were originally found in the river (not gold). But, there is no lack of gold when the cottonwoods turn on their fall…

• Tumbling Waters

  Oil, Canvas, -24 x 20. The melting snows of the high Rocky Mountains bring life giving water to the farms and ranches on the plains. Rivers swell when spring warms and summer blossoms. As water tumbles down the mountain…