Towards Home Gallery Show & Reopening of the Oregon Trail Center

Journey Towards Home to Baker County, Oregon, for the final gallery show of Nationally known Western artist Gary Ernest Smith - a native of Baker City. Crossroads Carnegie Art Center will host Smith's six-week final gallery show, honoring his 6-decade career as one of the premiere artists of the American West. 
The much anticipated opening coincided with the reopening of the National HIstoric Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, near Baker City, which had been closed for four years for a major facility renovation - a planned two-year project that was delayed by about two years due to the COVID 19 pandemic. 
Gary Ernest Smith's journey "Towards Home" has a strong connection with NHOTIC. In 1991, Smith painted "Oregon Pioneers", the image used for promoting the opening of the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, a Bureau of Land Management facility and the first of five interpretive centers along the Oregon Trail in Oregon that opened in time for the Historic Oregon Trail Sesquicentennial in 1993. It is fitting that his final gallery show has premiered with the reopening of the Oregon Trail Center in 2024.
"Towards Home" is on display at Crossroads Carnegie Art Center from May 24 through July 21, 2024. For more information, go to www.crossroads-arts.org. 
Watch for beautiful banners throughout downtown Baker City, featuring the art show and Smith's iconic paintings of familiar Western and Baker County scenes.