Wells Fargo asked to donate Cuts The Rope painting to Hays center
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Steve Edwards
Makenzie Davis, Teller at the Wells Fargo branch in Chinook, studies the winter scene, set in Mission Canyon, that Clarence Cuts The Rope painted for the Bank of Montana, a predecessor of Wells Fargo in 1982. Since the branch is now closed, a number of locals are working with Wells Fargo to have the painting donated to be displayed in Hays, where the artist did the work.
A number of locals, including the son of famed Hays-based artist Clarence Cuts The Rope, have asked Wells Fargo executives to donate a large painting, done by Cuts The Rope, to be hung in the new Hays community center when it is completed. The painting was one of two commissioned by the bank in 1982 (it was Bank of Montana at that time). Clarence Cuts The Rope died in 2000.
Ada Brekke, of Chinook, was a bank employee at the time. She said, "Clarence did two paintings, one of a buffalo hunt, and the other a winter scene set in Mission Canyon. Because there wasn't room for both painting to be di...
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