Peter Hassrick, writer, art scholar, and museum director, presents the history of painting in Yellowstone by the major 19th century painters, Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran. He examines these acclaimed landscape artists’ competing claims on the nation’s first natural preserve and their vital contributions to America’s conservation movement. These artists very much influenced and were influenced by the social and political climate of the time.

Recorded September 18, 2018 at the Museum of the Rockies, as part of Our Yellowstone, sponsored by the Bozeman Public Library.