Romey Stuckart

Romey Stuckart (August 29, 1955 – November 24, 2020) was an American painter. A Guggenheim Fellow, she painted expressionist landscapes of the forests of her resident state Idaho and exhibited at the Boise Art Museum, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.

Biography Rosemary Stuckart was born on August 29, 1955, in Sublimity, Oregon, She was the fifth of the six children of Cecilia Ann ( Smith) and Robert Stuckart, the latter of whom ran a sawmill where all of their children, including Rosemary herself, worked at. After graduating from a Catholic school, After working as a visiting teacher at Simpson College (1982) and the Bellagio Center (1984), and as an Adjunct Instructor in Drawing and Painting at UI, she worked there as Adjunct Assistant Professor from 1985 to 1988. She said in a 2002 interview with The Spokesman-Review: "My process involves a listening inward, a dance of faith and anxiety coaxing into view this visual reference for what we almost know." In addition to painting, she also did drawing and self-portraits and practiced healing techniques. Another solo exhibition of her paintings, "Energy, Change, Movement", was held at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in 2007. In addition to the rest of the Intermountain West and the Pacific Northwest, she also exhibited in New York City and in Germany. She was awarded a 1993 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists' Fellowship in painting for $20,000, "in spite of being under 40, female and from the West". The two were both artists and started their own art studios in Hope, Idaho, where they lived from 1987 until her death.

Stuckart died on November 24, 2020 of brain cancer. From February to June 2022, the Missoula Art Museum held Romey Stuckart: Within And Without, an exhibition of her works in her memory which was in development at the time of her death.