Exhibition: “Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America’s First National Park” Tours the U.S.

Peter Adams’ painting Minerva Terrace was featured in the exhibition “Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America’s First National Park.”

Peter Adams’ painting Minerva Terrace was featured in the exhibition “Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America’s First National Park.”

Peter Adams’ painting Minerva Terrace was featured in the exhibition “Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America’s First National Park,”which was organized by the Autry National Center’s Museum of the American West, under the leadership of Amy Scott, Curator of Visual Arts. The traveling exhibition, which debuted at the Museum in September 2004, is a comprehensive survey devoted to the art history of Yellowstone National Park. Drawn to Yellowstone is based on the recent publication of the same title by western art scholar, Peter Hassrick, and consists of more than eighty paintings and works on paper spanning 150 years and includes important works by contemporary-traditional artists as well as famous paintings by major early landscape artists such as Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Hill, Thomas Moran, Frederic Remington and John Henry Twachtman.