BOISE, IDAHO.- The Boise Art Museum presents Artists of the Northwest, Selections from a Recent Gift from the Wells Fargo Collection, on view through May 15, 2005. Wells Fargo is supportive of the Boise Art Museum through generous sponsorships, and in 2004, through an outstanding donation of twenty works of art, primarily from the Northwest, created from the 1960s to the 1990s. Important artworks by Northwest masters Morris Graves, Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, Paul Horiuchi, Margaret Tomkins and George Tsutakawa are among the significant works gifted to the collection and featured in this exhibition. The distinctive quality of the Northwest is demonstrated in themes of regeneration and transformation and the relationship of man to his environment. What distinguishes these works is the artists’ use of neutral colors and frequent use of symbolism to express ideas. BAM has selected paintings and sculpture from its growing Northwest Collection to augment and complement this generous Wells Fargo gifts.