Exhibition: Expression and Experiment by Val Knight

Val Knight (1905 1990) was a self-taught modernist painter whose quietly passionate life in Great Falls yielded a bold and deeply personal body of work. Rooted in early spiritual discipline and later shaped by formal studies under Jack Franjevic at the College of Great Falls. Works on exhibit emphasize her fused intuitive experimentation with modernist techniques across a range of media oil, watercolor, pastel, encaustic, and even cattle markers. Her expressive landscapes and impressionistic portraits reflect the influence of European movements like Expressionism, Cubism, and Symbolism, yet remain unmistakably her own.