About the Artist

Eleanor Joan Guerrero was born in northern New Jersey. Guerrero absorbed the art scene while quite young, hopping the bus to major NYC museums. She painted her first oil painting at 8, carrying books on Michelangelo and Vermeer home from public libraries. She studied art methods in oils, watercolor and sculpting at Penn State University earning a B.A. in cultural anthropology.  She was soon selling her large oils at metropolitan area shows and taking commissions. Her goal is to create beauty in this world and inspire others to share the joy of the natural world-it is all about balance. Her dramatic captures put you at the scene whether a majestic northern Rockies landscape, at the side of an approaching grizzly or participating in a Native ceremony. 

She visited many American historic locales and Native reservations, even participating in a Hopi Ceremony. Her paintings adorn corporate offices in New York City and Florida. She traveled the world studying art and culture from Italy to India. Drawn to vast vistas and Native cultures, in 1995, she moved out West in 1995 to CO. Planning to move to Montana,  she came home one day to find a ring of bear teeth laid out on top of a gopher's mound outside her front door. When asking where in Montana was favorable, a friend told her-go to the Beartooths!  She finally settled in Red Lodge, at the foot of the Beartooths, in the Northern Rockies, where she exhibits nationally and throughout Montana.  Her large work, Spirit Grizzly, is in permanent exhibit at the Montana State Capitol building in the Governor’s office, Native American Conference Room. She won the 2022 Montana Art Council/MSU Competition. Another of her grizzlies is on permanent display in the MSU Life Sciences Building in Billings. She founded the Native American Children's Association with her sister, which for 19 years has provided children with food, new coats and art.  

Guerrero paints historic and current Western Tribal members striving to portray their dignity and respect for their sacred traditions. Contact: [email protected]/406-446-9102.

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See her newest works as soon as they happen on Instagram: eleanorguerrero475.