Moonrise, Colorado River

Sarah Winkler, a British-American contemporary landscape painter who lives and works in Morrison, Colorado, presents a collection of new landscape paintings of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain Front Range locations that once captured the imagination of Swedish-American, painter, Birger Sandzén. A place he visited annually from Lindsborg, KS to paint and teach. He fondly named this region of Colorado, “The Big Pretty”

In Winkler’s exhibition, The Big Pretty, see her large scale acrylic paintings of Sandzen’s favorite Colorado subjects to include: Pikes Peak, Garden of the Gods, Longs Peak, Arapahoe Glacier, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado River and a large ten foot triptych of the front range view from Kansas looking West. This is the first concentrated solo exhibit of Colorado Front Range centric artworks that the artist has undertaken.

Exhibition Dates: May 3rd -July 19th, 2026

Opening Reception on Sunday, May 3, from 2 to 4 p.m. with exhibition talks beginning at 2:30pm

The museum has concurrent exhibitions on May 3 through July 19, 2026 –

Go Figure: an invitational figurative exhibition curated by Michael Jilg of Hays, KS

Paintings by Sarah Winkler of Morrison, Colorado

Paintings by Anthony Benton Gude of Axtell, KS

Paintings by Barry Fitzgerald of Lawrence, KS

401 N. First Street, Lindsborg, Kansas 67456