Join The Extreme History Project for our August lecture by Will Wright, "Helen McAuslan, Modern Medium: Art and Architecture in Twentieth-Century Bozeman." This lecture is free and open to the public.
This presentation focuses on the life and home of abstract painter Helen McAuslan, using both to understand the connections between art and architecture within the context of Montana's modernist movement. A common thread for McAuslan’s version of "modernism" was her rejection of a traditional past in hope for a more liberated future. If the nineteenth-century West was remembered through the works of male artists such as Charles Russell and Frederic Remington, then the twentieth-century West should be known through the contributions of female artists like McAuslan.