Faced with dicey career opportunities involving either the Merchant Marines or ranch work, Reece opted to become a cowboy who spent his off hours creating murals on the walls of professional buildings in Sheridan, Wyoming. That led to a job in Lodge Grass, Montana, where he was hired to supervise Crow Indian kids who were painting murals at their high school. Reece then taught art to teenagers living in the industrial housing projects of North Wales. A bicycle tour of France and Italy followed and when he returned to Montana, he settled in Gardiner, a town on the border of Yellowstone National Park, where elk and buffalo outnumber people. In 1980, Reece became director of the Danforth Gallery, a nonprofit arts education facility in Livingston, Montana. He spent four years there, booking shows and introducing a variety of art and artists to the community. In the meantime, Reece continued to hone his own talents as he developed his unique style of art. Since 1984 he has focused exclusively on his own art. Reece's work has been exhibited, and is in private collections, across the United States, Canada, and Europe. It has also appeared nationally in numerous magazines as well as in books and on book covers. In 1997, Reece began his series of enthusiastically received limited edition original lithographs, produced at Deep Creek Productions, Russell Chatham's lithography studio in Livingston, Montana. Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3