An Artist Learns to See Land:
Alfred Jacob Miller in the Wind River Mountains, 1837

Wednesday, June 9, 2004, AHC Stock Growers' Room, 3:30-5 PM

Free and Open to the Public

Writer and publication specialist Chavawn Kelley will present "An Artist Learns to See Land: Alfred Jacob Miller in the Wind River Mountains, 1837." Her presentation is funded by the Wyoming Council for the Humanities.

The artist Alfred Jacob Miller was training in Europe when a wealthy Scot, William Drummond Stewart, employed him to record an expedition into the Wind River Mountains. Kelley's program will combine history and art to explore the experiences of these men and the effects of their European Heritage on their perceptions of the American West. She will show slides of Miller's paintings which depict concepts of landscpe. The AHC has nine of Miller's paintings on exhibit which can be viewed before or after the presentation.

Kelley is the publication specialist at Western Research Institute in Laramie, and has lived in Lander before earning her master's degree in American Studies at UW. She is also recipient of two awards from the Wyoming Arts Council, a literature fellowship and an award for creative writing.