Bozeman Magazine

Our Yellowstone is a unique series of arts and cultural programming, speakers, and exhibits in celebration of our First National Park. Peter Hassrick, writer and art scholar, will present “Bierstadt and Moran: The Battle for Yellowstone.” He examines these acclaimed landscape artists’ competing claims on the nation’s first natural preserve and their vital contributions to America’s conservation movement. Mr. Hassrick lives in Cody, Wyoming and serves a national and international constituency of museums as a guest curator. He is director emeritus and senior scholar at Buffalo Bill Center of the West, director emeritus of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art, Denver Art Museum, founding director emeritus of the Charles Russell Center, University of Oklahoma, and founding director of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe.