Art
DECOMPRESS with the quietness of Lake Pateros. Visit the hometown and place of inspiration of Richard Beyers. Picnic on the shores of Lake Pateros in front of the foundry where his famous works were created. Visit "Fish Swimming over Old Pateros” on the Pateros Schools campus or take a boat down river and visit “Joe Billy Sloan” standing on a rock in the lake pointing at steelhead.
Art and architecture critic Rae Tufts wrote of Beyer’s work this way: “Richard Beyer’s Waiting for the Interurban is probably Seattle’s best-known public artwork of figurative realism… It is also unquestionably, the most popular piece of public art in town.”
Dog on Rock in the River
Fish Swimming Over Old Pateros
Memorial Park
Methow Fisherman
Methow Tribe Sculptures
Monument to the Methow
Pateros Museum at City Hall
Pateros Visitor Center & Museum
People Climbing a Pole
Reflections on the Columbia, Pateros Water Towers
Riverview Pavilion & History Walk
Steamboat ‘round the Bend
Steelhead Sculpture
“IN A SMIPLE UTILITARIAN OBJECT, the plastic reflector, central Washington artist Richard C. Elliot found a way to make magic." -Opening sentence to Sheila Farr's book Richard C. Elliott Primal Op.
Home of Native Cowboy Poet Harold Otto
WHEREAS, Harold Otto has deservedly been called "the Poet of Pateros" and the "Bard of the Methow" for such poetic verse as:
"For many years, I herded cows
Upon the dusty trail.
I've throwed my rope around their horns,
And twisted on their tails...
...To a bunch of cows that seemed to know
Just how to make me mad.
And anything that bothered me
Just seemed to make them glad."
“Smoker was a strong voice for his people, and he brought a unique perspective to tribal government,” said Jarred-Michael Erickson, chairman of the Colville Tribe.