Betty Jean Billups In the summer of 1977,
Elizabeth Jean Billups (AKA Betty or
Betty Jean...sometimes Boop, or BJ) had her first one
artist museum show at the Montana Historical Society in
Helena. This exhibit was the direct results of doing
research for a U.S. Army commission that she received, to
create a painting of Sacajawea. And this commssion
came about because the Army had seen a painting Billups
had in the U.S. Air Force Art Collection (of the C9, a
medical plane).
The exhibit was titled Inner
Feelings and was the sole reason Betty turned her
illustration career back to the fine arts. The trip north at
that
time, also brought her back years later, to live on a 200
acre ranch, and eventually move into the mountains, to a
tudor style cabin on 10 acres in the wilderness.
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