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would have to make it a major exhibit.” The resulting show, “A Timeless Legacy – Women Artists of Glacier National Park,” running from May 28 to July 18, will highlight the often glossed-over early work of female artists in the park with an exhibition,alongwithabookandadoc- umentary. It will also include pieces from four living artists who have worked in
Glacier.
“It’s really developed into something
worthy of national recognition,” Moss said.
Some of the artists that will be featured in the exhibit have name recognition, such as Knopf, while others went unrecognized. It will include Knopf, Leah Dewey Lebo, Kathryn Leighton, Elizabeth Lochrie, Lucille Van Slyck, Elsa Jemne and Merle Olson.
The living artists to be featured are Carole Cooke, Kathryn Stats, Linda
ABOVE Lucille Van Slyck painting in the snow in Glacier National Park, circa 1929.
Tippetts, and Rachel Warner.
While showing the artists’ work is
important, Moss also noted that the women who ventured into the park to paint in the early parts of the 20th cen- tury overcame gender norms to do so. It’s also not uncommon that their work went overlooked in comparison to that of their male contemporaries.
“It happens with a lot of art history in general: men are featured and that’s who the art historians focus on,” Moss said. “The gumption and the courage it took for these women in that time period, in the early 1900s, to be up there alone and painting, is inspiring.”
Stats, one of the living artists involved intheshow,saidtryingtopaintinthewild
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