Guest Lecture and Book Signing: Montana Modernists with Michele Corriel

This program is meant to align with the museum's exhibitions of permanent collection works of art. Many of The Square’s newest exhibitions feature artwork by Montana Modernists including Theodore Waddell, Gennie DeWeese, Bob DeWeese, Val Knight, Jim Poor, Freeman Butts, and more. Dr. Corriel’s lecture will provide a distinct perspective about the art history of Montana.
Copies of her book Montana Modernists: Shifting Perceptions of Western Art will be available for purchase in the museum Gift Shop. Dr. Corriel will be available to sign her book after the lecture.
About Montana Modernists by Dr. Michele Corriel: For many, Charles M. Russell’s paintings epitomize life in the West. But in twentieth-century postwar Montana, an avant-garde art movement Montana Modernism brewed. Its pioneers Jessie Wilber, Frances Senska, Bill Stockton, Isabelle Johnson, Robert DeWeese, and Gennie DeWeese created a community and pedagogy where, in stark contrast to stereotypical romanticized western art and frontier history themes, modernist ideas and art flourished, expanding traditional definitions of Western art.