Eleanor Joan Guerrero was born in northern New Jersey. Her grandfather, Nicola, is from Naples and family members travel back and forth to the ancestral town. Guerrero absorbed the art scene while quite young, hopping the bus to major NYC...
Read MoreEleanor Joan Guerrero was born in northern New Jersey. Her grandfather, Nicola, is from Naples and family members travel back and forth to the ancestral town. Guerrero absorbed the art scene while quite young, hopping the bus to major NYC museums. She painted her first oil painting at 8, carrying books on Michelangelo and Vermeer home from public libraries. She studied art methods in oils, watercolor and sculpting at Penn State University earning a B.A. in cultural anthropology. She was soon selling her large oils at metropolitan area shows and taking commissions.
She visited many American historic locales and Native reservations, even participating in a Hopi Ceremony. Guerrero graduated from Seton Hall School of Law in 1976, always continuing to paint. Her paintings adorn corporate offices in New York City and Florida. She traveled the world studying art and culture from Italy to India. Drawn to vast vistas and Native cultures, in 1995, she moved out West to Durango, CO. She finally settled in Red Lodge, Montana where she exhibits at the Beartooth Fine Art Gallery in Red Lodge and other locales. She independently exhibits and sells her art nationwide. Her work is in permanent exhibit at the Montana State Capitol building. She founded the Native American Children's Association with her sister, which for 15 years has provided children with food, new coats and art. Her work has most recently been on exhibit in ETHOS, at Frederick Gallery, a National Juried show in Fredericksburg, VA. and "Endangered: Can Art Save The Species?"International Art Competition, Nov-Jan., 2021. Her latest work, "Spirit Grizzly!", has been chosen for permanent exhibit by juried group from the Montana Arts Council and the Montana State University for 2022.
Guerrero paints in abstract and semi-realistic style. She often portrays historic and current Western Tribal members striving to portray their dignity and respect for their sacred traditions. Grizzlies roam and eagles soar in her neighborhood in Montana. She has an affinity for wild places and animals and has a gift for taking the viewer with her to share the majesty of the AmericanWest. Some of these take abstract forms make statements such as fire thundering across the landscape in the guise of a wild horse.
