Curator’s Lecture: An Artist in the Time of Love and War

The exhibition opening will begin with a film screening for A Keen Observer, 2022. The screening will occur at Davidson Family Auditorium in Great Falls High School at 5:30 p.m. and will be followed at 7 by the exhibition reception for Il Maestro! Works by Morton Levin, A Centennial Celebration at Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art. A Keen Observer is a short documentary film that features Morton Levin in a lively conversation about his life, interlayered with imagery and stories of his work and life as an artist and veteran of war. The film viewing will include an audience discussion with Apo Bazidi, Director, and Alanna Zrimsek, the artist’s partner, and Producer of the film.
This unique exhibition features the work of Morton Levin (1923-2020), a master artist whose passion and unbending desire for art making and mastery led him on an intriguing life journey touched by the effects of war, love, family, life, and teaching. The exhibition highlights a special selection of the artist’s body of work beginning in the 1930s through 2005, while focusing on master works within his vast artistic repertoire.