• 2025

    Theodore Waddell and the Urgency of the Real

    Samuel J. Abrams, American Enterprise Institute

    “In an art world drunk on theory and spectacle, a Montana painter insists on snow, cattle, and weather — and on the discipline of seeing.”

  • 2023

    A Painter's Playful Side

    Western Art Collector

  • 2021

    Dreaming of Montana with Theodore Waddell

    Montana Quarterly

  • 2021

    Theodore Waddell: Abstracted Views

    Western Art Collector

  • 2020

    In My Life, In My Landscape

    Albuquerque Journal

  • 2018

    Waddell's West

    Jason Edward Kaufman, LUXURY Magazine

    “In his majestically abstract paintings of animals grazing in Western landscapes, Theodore Waddell marries passions for ranching and modern art.”

  • 2018

    Do You See What I See? Painted Conversations by Theodore Waddell

    National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City

    A spring exhibition of work “highly influenced by the abstract expressionist movement yet carrying an undertone typical of Western art.”

  • 2017

    Round Up: A Montana Modernist

    Corinne Garcia, Big Sky Journal

    On Theodore Waddell: My Montana — “occasionally a title comes along that creates its own weather.”

  • 2012

    Elevating Western American Art

    Denver Art Museum, Petrie Institute of Western American Art

    Twenty-six works, including an 8-by-28-foot mural painted for the exhibition, that “challenge commonly held perceptions of western American art.”

Backdrop: Montana, 2000 · Oil, encaustic on canvas, 120 × 216 in