Teton Plein Air Painters: Honoring Tradition

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The Art Association of Jackson Hole is excited to announce their annual exhibition and celebration of TPAP participants’ creativity. This year’s theme is Honoring Tradition.

The exhibit is on display August 7th – September 30th, 2025 in the Art Association Gallery.

Plein air painting has a long history beginning in Europe in the early 1800s (though there are records of Italian painters working directly from nature as early as the 1500s). Plein air work has been instrumental in the development of the Western American landscape tradition, with artists like Thomas Moran, Charlie Russell, Frank Tenney Johnson, and Carl Rungius. Today’s plein air painters carry on that tradition and push its definition in new directions.