oil paintings

Dawn Senior-Trask, of Moonhorse Art Studio, has worked in a wide variety of media including charcoal, oil paintings, woodcuts, gouaches, claybords™ and scratchboards. Her artwork, especially her oil paintings, are a unique way of looking at the memories and culture of the West -- memories and reflections of the lifestyles this western artist has experienced during the many years she has lived in a log cabin near Saratoga, Wyoming.

As evidenced in her oil paintings, Dawn is greatly influenced by Native American art. She lived among the Navaho and Hopi on the Arizona deserts for five years as a teenager, and has also spent time on the Rosebud and Wind River Reservations with the Lakota, and Arapaho tribes. Native American legends and Native American myth are a great inspiration on her artwork, especially her oil paintings.

oil paintings featuring landscape oil paintings, quilt paintings, Native American-inspired oil paintings and horse paintings

Elk Mountain Sunrise
Landscape oil painting by Dawn-Senior Trask

Dawn and her husband Juel are often out at sunrise, walking to gather the horses for the day's riding. Dawn usually has to walk for several miles to find the horses as they graze among the Cedar Breaks.

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Size: 6' x 3'
Price: $2400

Original oil painting available

All My Relatives
Oil painting by Dawn-Senior Trask

This large oil was inspired by a dream—a cosmic dance in which Dawn became all of the creatures by turn—a coyote, an eagle, an egret, a buffalo, a snake—all the history of earth and humanity is a part of us all.

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Size: 36" x 50"
Price: $2,250 framed. Print available.

Wyoming Quilt
Quilt painting by Dawn-Senior Trask

Seen as a whole, the "quilt" shows a landscape while the individual  "quilt blocks" contain details of native animals, plants, and birds.

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Size: 18" x 24"
Print available
Price: $25
In the collection of Mrs. Anne Esse— Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Log Cabin Quilt
Quilt painting by Dawn-Senior Trask

Inspired by the traditional log cabin quilt pattern, the "quilt blocks" seen as a whole show the cabin where Dawn grew up in its mountain landscape.

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Size: 36" x 50"
Print Available
Price: $25

Childhood Quilt
Quilt painting by Dawn-Senior Trask

“Childhood Quilt” was painted by Dawn as a gift for her mother’s 80^th birthday. Dawn designed it using drawings she had made between the ages of 4 and 19 as the quilt blocks. Read more about this quilt painting.

Size: 36" x 50"
Print available
Price: $25

Navajo Love - As Long as the Winds Shall Blow 
Native American-inspired oil painting by Dawn-Senior Trask

Dawn's father must have made the charcoal sketch on this large canvas when they lived on the Navajo reservation in the 1970s. Read more about this Native American-inspired painting.
(with W.F. Senior)

Size: 26" x 36" 
Print Available
Price:$25

Crossing the Draw
Horse painting by Dawn-Senior Trask

Dawn's horses always get excited when they come down from the rocky hills for water.

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Size: 24" x 30"
Print available
Price: $25

In the collection of Mr. and Mrs. David Nowlin — Redmond, Oregon

View from Sheep Rock
Landscape oil painting by Dawn-Senior Trask

This landscape shows the river valley seen from the cliffs above the river, with the mountains in the distance.

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Size: 26" x 36"
Print available
Price: $25

In the collection of Mr. and Miss. David Nowlin—Redmond, Oregon

The Legend of Lame Rabbit
Native American-inspired oil painting by Dawn-Senior Trask

This oil painting is a study for one of the "Lakota Moons" series of woodcut illustrations.  It brings together many experiences of Dawn's, including hearing a Lakota story about a kind woman who carried Lame Rabbit on her back.

Read more about this legend and this Native American-inspired painting.

Print available
Price: $25

The Great Bear Sleeps and the Edge of the World
Native American-inspired painting by Dawn-Senior Trask

Based on Lakota, Navajo and Kiowa bear legends, this oil painting, depicts The Great Bear of the Lakota, who sleeps at the edge of the world.

Read more about this Native American-inspired oil painting.

Print available
Price: $25

If you would like more information on our artwork or would like to place an order, email Moonhorse Art Studio or call us 307.327.5381. We look forward to hearing from you!