Dale Livezey was born in 1957. His parents were Ohio fruit farmers. He started painting in oils at the age of ten, and made his lifelong commitment to his art when he moved to Montana in 1978. Since then he has lived and worked on the margin of the Rocky Mountain Front Range and the Great Western prairies.

Livezey's paintings have appeared on several book covers, including A.B. Guthrie's The Big Sky (Houghton Mifflin); Writing Montana, edited by Rick Newby and Suzanne Hunger, The Tall Uncut by Pete Fromm (Lyons Press); and in 2003 On Sarpy Creek by Ira S. Nelson (Bedrock Editions and Riverbend Publishing, Helena).

Livezey's paintings are in numerous private collections, as well as the Holter Museum of Art (Helena) and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has participated in group shows at the Holter Museum of Art (Helena), Missoula Museum of Art, Sutton West Gallery (Missoula), Hockaday Center for the Arts (Kalispell), and Kneeland Gallery (Sun Valley). In 2002, Livezey has been featured at the Holter Museum of Art in "Open Country: A Twenty-Year Retrospective, Paintings by Dale Livezey."

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Articles/Reviews

2003

• McMillion, Scott. "A Sense of Place: Dale Livezey concentrates on Montana's hurry-up country." Big Sky Journal, Spring 2003.

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Grants Awarded

1986

• Four Seasons of Light, a landscape painting project funding by the Grants to Artists Program, Friends of the Helena Film Society, Helena, MT

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Education

• Self-directed study, 1967 to present.

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Residency

• Participant, Helena National Forest Artist-in-Residence program
  N-Bar Ranch, Tom Elliot, owner. Grass Range, MT; full and part-time studio work, February 1990 to September 1991.

Photograph by Amy Brakeman Livezey