Queer Frontier – Art Discussions in Honor of Pride Month

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Celebrate Pride Month with Queer Themed Art discussions every Friday from 3-4 PM.

June 7, 3-4 pm Queer Frontier – Captain Stewart: Queer Explorer and Entrepreneur

Scottish nobleman and adventurer, Sir William Drummond Stewart, was a flamboyant figure in Western American history whose extravagant tastes and poorly concealed same-sex relationships eventually drove him back to Scotland. Come examine a grand painting featuring Captain Stewart and hear of his exploits in the West.

June 14, 3-4 pm Conflicting Ideas of Gender and Sexuality in the Old West

We’ll look at art picturing the Jeffersonian ideal of family farm life on the frontier and discuss Indigenous peoples’ concepts of gender, sexuality, and family life that Euro-American explorers and settlers found particularly challenging to relate to.

June 21, 3-4 pmCowboy Poetry of Queer Love

Cowboys are icons of straight masculinity, who often formed deep bonds with their professional partners on the range. Sometimes those bonds were romantic and inspired artists and poets. Hear some cowboy love poetry while considering the painted subject.

June 28, 3-4 pm Marsden Hartley: A Gay American Artist

Never openly out, Hartley was well known to be gay and many of his paintings expressed his homosexual desire in coded, and not-so-coded ways. His time in New Mexico fundamentally changed his approach to painting and provided a respite from his grief at the loss of his lover in WWI. We’ll discuss one of his New Mexico paintings and his later career.

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