Charles Carey Rumsey was an American sculptor who is most well known for depicting polo players and equestrian subjects. He was a pretty well known polo player himself. But occasionally, […]
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Museum Minute: “When the Buffalo Came Back”
The Plains Indian Museum doesn’t only collect art from the past. Rebecca West, the curator of the museum, said their job is also to collect contemporary art like those of […]
Museum Minute: Morning Blue
Josh Elliot is a Montana born and raised artist of Western landscape. Karen McWhorter, the Scarlett Curator of Western American Art for the Whitney Western Art Museum, said Elliot’s landscapes […]
Museum Minute: Artistic Expression Through A Tin Cup
During the Reservation Era, roughly from the 1870s to the 1920s, Native Americans were required to move onto allotments of land. Rebecca West, the curator of the Plains Indian Museum, […]
Museum Minute: Imperfections Are Beautiful
Often the uniqueness of a piece stands out more than something that follows the trend. For Hunter Old Elk, the curatorial assistant of the Plains Indian Museum, this rings true […]
Albert Bierstadt: A Conservationist
Albert Bierstadt—He’s a late 19th-century artist, most well-known for his majestic landscape paintings of the Wind River Range, Yellowstone, and the American West. But there’s more to him than paintings […]
