About Sheila Rieman

  • Biography

    The following obituary is from The Bismarck Tribune, November 21, 2011:

    "Sentinel Butte artist Sheila Rieman killed in collision with deer" by Lauren Donovan

    Color faded in the art world Thursday with the death of a nationally famous artist who lived in a small white house in Sentinel Butte.

    Sheila Rieman, 53, died after a deer strike caused her car to crash into the end of a guard rail about 30 miles east of Billings, Mont., where she was to attend the opening of a gallery show featuring some of her work.

    Rieman and Pete Novotny, a horse farrier and her companion of 30 years, moved to Sentinel Butte seven years ago. They built a studio and horse barn about halfway to Medora, in the pinks and tans of Badla...

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