Jim Dolan

Jim Dolan (born 1948) is an American sculptor specializing in outdoor larger-than-life bronze and steel sculptures, especially of Montana-related subjects and wildlife. He has created a number of large scale multiple element sculptures, and over 170 works of public art. He currently lives in Belgrade, Montana. He has created works in steel, copper and brass.

He took a welding class at the college and that was when he began to create metal sculptures, starting with nails and other small bits of metal.

Dolan's career as a full-time artist took off after he finished a commission in 1979 to place a flock of geese inside the terminal of Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport.

Dolan has created other complex outdoor sculptures in Montana, including a herd of elk placed upon the lawn of a bank in Bozeman, and a fly fisherman sculpture in Ennis. A whimsical work, Albert Einstein Between Theorems, was a 2012 ArtPrize entry, and is now permanently installed at Western Michigan University. A sculpture of a golden eagle, with a wingspan, is in Osaka, Japan.

Selected works