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Description: The Montana Museum of Art and Culture at The University of Montana, Missoula, proudly announces An Artist with the Corps of Discovery, a national traveling exhibit of paintings by Charles Fritz of Billings, Montana. The more than 50 original works are devoted to the Corps of Discovery, the official name of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The inspiration for Fritz's monumental undertaking is found in the words of Thomas Jefferson, 'The work we are now doing is, I trust, done for posterity, in such a way they need not repeat it . . . We shall delineate with correctness the great arteries of this country; those who come after us will fill up the canvas we begin.' Fritz has meticulously researched the sites of his canvasses both on-site along the Lewis and Clark Trail and through the journals of Lewis and Clark. On May 11, 2004 An Artist with the Corps of Discovery will debut at The Montana Museum of Art and Culture at The University of Montana in Missoula, where it will remain on display through September 11. Admission is free. It will then travel nationally through December 2006, being on public display during the years of the Lewis and Clark bicentennial when a number of ""signature events"" are planned at sites along the Trail. In it's entirely, the exhibition will include 65 paintings. Accompanying the exhibit is a major publication reproducing the entire suite in full color with commentaries on the paintings by nationally renowned historian Stephen Ambrose and an introduction by UM historian Harry Fritz. |
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