The Leanin’ Tree Company was founded in 1949 by Ed Trumble. The Museum of Western Art originated as a small part of the manufacturing facility for Leanin’ Tree cards built in 1974. The Museum houses on of the nation’s largest privately owned collections of Western art. In the early days of the company, Ed supplied the only exposure for many of the early Western artists by publishing their work and selling it nationwide at a time when there was little market for this type of art.
 

Today the Museum houses over 200 paintings and 80 bronzes that depict the various themes of the genre: Indians, cowboys, desert and mountain landscapes, wildlife, scenes of pioneers and trappers, everyday ranch life and Western history. It is open to the public free of charge 7 days a week.
 

For their gift shop merchandise and cards, the Museum choose both plastic and paper bags with the Museum logo on them. They use both flat merchandise bags in natural kraft and shoppers in natural kraft and plastic. If you are visiting the Boulder area, stop in and enjoy the beautiful art work or contact the Museum at www.leanintree.com.

For each month's featured customer, Bags tries to showcase a customer who has used a unique approach to their packaging, and to share a little about their business with you.  Hopefully this provides a bit of insight to how other businesses select their packaging products and to how Bags can help you find the right packaging for your business.  Perhaps you can find a business similar to yours among the companies listed here.  We continually provide links (see right column) to the past year's selections ... but all our featured customers' pages are also available.  Contact one of our sales consultants for more information.

Bags Customer of the Month program started in June 1999.