Dueling Paintbrushes' set for Oct. 4

Press Release

The Montana State University-Northern Chancellor’s Lecture Series will host “Dueling Paintbrushes: George Catlin and Karl Bodmer on the Missouri” with Kristi Hager Tuesday, Oct. 4.

The presentation will be at Northern’s Applied Technology Center in Hensler Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.

The presentation is free and open to the public.

Hager presents a rich visual record of the High Plains at a unique time after Lewis and Clark’s Voyage of Discovery up the Missouri River and to the West Coast but before the arrival of railways and photography.

Two painters traveled up the Missouri River...