October 2003

Missoula artist releases
new UM print
Artist Monte Dolack on Homecoming weekend released a revised version of his popular print that features Main Hall on The University of Montana campus.

Dolack, who studied art at UM, originally released the Main Hall print in 1983. It featured Main Hall with Mount Sentinel and the M in the background. The original poster of Main Hall is no longer in print.

“People come into the gallery asking for the poster all the time,” Dolack said. “We don’t have it anymore, so I felt like there was a place for a new version.”

The new print features four paintings of the Main Hall Tower — one for each season of the year. The winter view, for example, depicts UM’s signature building flanked by barren trees with a snow-covered Mount Sentinel in the background.

Dolack said he simplified the new print, eliminating the bird, hang glider and squirrel that were in the first version.

“This one just focuses on the tower, mountain, trees and weather,” Dolack said.
He got the idea for the revised version by looking back at the original sketches he drew more than 20 years ago.

“I remembered I had done something with the four seasons,” he said. “It was an old idea, but even though it’s 20 years later, it looks like a new idea.”

From the old sketches, Dolack painted four seasonal pictures of Main Hall, which he used as a starting point for the print.

The new print is available in two different versions — a larger vertical grouping of the four seasonal views and a smaller horizontal variation.

The print is available at Missoula’s Monte Dolack Gallery, 139 W. Front St., and the Bookstore at UM. It also is available through Dolack’s Web site at www.dolack.com.

A percentage from the sale of every print will be donated to UM.

University Relations | Cary Shimek, Editor
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