WHEN HE WAS A YOUNG BOY, TIM JOYNER’S PARENTS TOOK HIM TO THE ANNUAL C.M. RUSSELL Museum auction in his hometown of Great Falls, Montana, and it ignited a creative spark right away. He picked up a pencil and began to draw. “I’d turn in math homework with a picture where the answer should be,” he says. “I wasn’t very good in school. I was kind of the dreamer. I was always sketching—mostly Western stuff, like cowboys and horses.” He’d found a mentor in Charlie Russell (even went to C.M. Russell High School and had a dog named after him). He would also be influenced by Montana artists Monte Dolack and Larry Zabel.
Now, 50 years later,
