To preview the show online contact Kim Lassiter at 307-763-7681 or ballardsfineart@gmail.com for the PASSWORD
Show opens online September 5th at 4:00, no password needed at that time.
Preview the Show Link (Will need Password)
September 4 - October 12, 2025
Presented by The American Tonalist Society at
23 South Main, Sheridan, WY 82801
(307) 763-7681, ballardsfineart@gmail.com
Patron Preview Dinner: Thursday, September 4, 5:00-6:30 pm.
ATS presentation of selected invited artists 6:30 - 7:30pm
Public Reception & Awards Ceremony: Friday, September 5, 4:00 - 7:00 pm
The American Tonalist Society opens this September with their third biennial exhibition and sale, Shades of Gray III. This exhibition features the ATS Signature Artists for 2025, over 30 invited artists chosen for their excellence in keeping the tonalist tradition alive through a variety of contemporary interpretations. These artists’ work represent some of the very best examples of American tonalism today. The American Tonalist Society is presenting a painting exhibition in which reverence for nature is manifest in limitless and lovely shades and majestic glory. Mist laden dawn, purple-edged marshes, sun-dappled creeks, and assorted scenes that expand the tradition of tonalism are on view at Ballard’s Fine Art through October 12 in “Shades of Gray: III.”
Founded in 2016, the American Tonalist Society is devoted to a style of painting defined in the 1800s as primarily landscape and reverential toward nature, with a spiritual gloss. Painters working in this style create a mood, rather than a story, through the tonal quality of a chosen color. In 2019, the American Tonalist Society curated its first show at the iconic Salmagundi Club, dubbed “one of the grandest exhibitions that has graced these walls,” by Tim Newton, former president of the club. Many of the 2025 Signature Artists are from the Western part of the United States.
Opening Friday, September 5 at Ballard’s Fine Art Gallery in Sheridan, Wyoming. With nature, atmosphere, emotion, a sense of place, and an ethereal palette at the core of their creations, the exhibiting artists will showcase approximately 60+ works. A variety of sizes will be on display, landscapes/ seascapes are the principal subject matter. American Tonalist Society artists work primarily in oil, with pastel, watercolor, and drawing media also represented. Artwork is for sale on a first-come, first-served basis (A few have SOLD already). Preview of the show in person begins with a ticketed dinner event on Thursday, September 4. (For information about the preview dinner, call Kim at Ballard’s Fine Art 307-763-7681)
See you on Friday September 5th, 4-7 PM
