Dueling Paintbrushes' set for Oct. 4

Press Release

The Montana State University-Northern Chancellor’s Lecture Series will host “Dueling Paintbrushes: George Catlin and Karl Bodmer on the Missouri” with Kristi Hager Tuesday, Oct. 4.

The presentation will be at Northern’s Applied Technology Center in Hensler Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.

The presentation is free and open to the public.

Hager presents a rich visual record of the High Plains at a unique time after Lewis and Clark’s Voyage of Discovery up the Missouri River and to the West Coast but before the arrival of railways and photography.

Two painters traveled up the Missouri River within a year of each other, George Catlin in 1832 and Karl Bodmer in 1833. They had very different temperaments and very different styles of painting the same Indian villages, the same chiefs, the same sacred rituals, the same bison herds, the same river bluffs.

Catlin and Bodmer also documented how each tribe painted accounts of their own lives in their own style on tipis, drums, and buffalo hides.

For more information, call MSU-Northern at 265-3700.

Visit the college website to see the Fall-2016 Chancellor's Lecture Series: http://msun.edu/news/calendar/events2016/ChancellorSeries.aspx.