Richard S. Buswell

Biography from Richard Buswell, 5/2018:

I have been photographing artifacts of the Montana frontier for 47 years. I have had 47 solo, museum-level exhibitions of my photography, including the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington; Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts; Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, Florida and the International Photography Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (now in St. Louis, Missouri). I have also had my work included in 327 museum-level group exhibitions, including group exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, High Museum of Art, Tacoma Art Museum, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University and a forthcoming exhibition at Yale University's Beinecke Library.

229 museums have acquired my work for their permanent collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Corcoran Gallery of Art; the George Eastman House (International Museum of Photography and Film); Library of Congress; Detroit Institute of Arts; and High Museum of Art, Atlanta among others including the recent purchase of 349 of my photographs for The Collection of Western Americana at Yale University’s Beinecke Library.

Since 1996, five books of my photography have been published by The Museum of Fine Arts of the University of Montana and Archival Press The Montana Museum of Art and Culture of the University of Montana (2002 & 2007) and the University of New Mexico Press (2013 & 2017).

I was chosen as a Treasured Montana Artist by Linda McCulloch, Montana Secretary of State, in September, 2011