Bighorn Mountains

The Brinton Museum

The Brinton Museum is built into a hillside outside Sheridan, Wyoming, and overlooks the Bighorn Mountains. The entrance feels like a portal to some interior place—or maybe an extension of that interior place as it tries to emerge from the earth.

Inside is a striking collection of indigenous and Western art, including: recollections and paintings of The Battle of the Greasy Grass / Little Bighorn; Winold Reiss’s Montana Blackfeet portraits, each with their own story to tell; and Jim Jackson’s paintings on carved leather.

A sculpture of cattle and cowboys, painted with bright colors.
Detail from “Cosmos,” Harry Jackson, 1996
Twelve framed portraits of Blackfeet tribe members
Blackfeet portraits, Winold Reiss, 1920
A koi fish swims beneath a lily pad.
Detail from “Koi Theater,” Jim Jackson, 2023
A woman with short, wavy hair faces the viewer.
Detail from “Categorical Imperative,” Jim Jackson, 1985