Linda E. Lillegraven lives in Laramie, Wyoming. She works in both oils and pastels, and is known particularly for her outstanding landscapes. She has exhibited in the Arts for the Parks Top 200 for the last five years, and in the Top 100 for four of those years. Lillegraven won the Grand Prize in the 2000 Art for the Parks Show.

Linda won the Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale William E. Weiss Purchase Award in 2003 and Painting Award in 2005. She was an artist-in-residence at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in 2001. Her work was featured in the November 1997 issue of Southwest Art and more recently, in Western Art Collector magazine in April, 2008. It is in the permanent collections of the University of Wyoming Art Museum, the Wyoming State Museum, the Old West Museum, the University of Nebraska, and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center.