[cid:image005.jpg@01D15A9B.674C0100] [Description: 4 inch 250 dpi Self Portrait_02.jpg] Meet curator and western art scholar Peter H. Hassrick<https://cmrussell.org/sites/cmrussell.org/files/downloadable_documents_folder/2015%20C.M.%20Russell%20Heritage%20Award%20Recipients.pdf> at 2 pm on Sunday at Tacoma Art Museum. Hassrick co-curated Painted Journeys: The Art of John Mix Stanley<http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/exhibit/painted-journeys-art-john-mix-stanley/tour/>, a first-ever traveling retrospective for this unstoppable artist-explorer. The curator talk is followed by a book-signing. John Mix Stanley journeyed over 8,000 miles, crisscrossing the western territories in the pre-civil war mid-1800s. He even ventured as far as the kingdom of Hawaii. His career was dotted with ruinous events... Hundreds of his works perished in notorious fires at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. and Barnum's American Museum in New York, NY. A slew of American Indian artifacts he had collected during his western travels, bound for museums back east, went down with the ship in transport. His studio caught fire during his later career, as did a warehouse storing his lithographs. "In his day, Stanley was viewed as the premier painter of American Indians," says Hassrick, Senior Scholar and Director Emeritus at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. "His motivation was to give America's Native people a face as the subjects of fine art." Learn more about Stanley's art, his rugged expeditions through the Pacific Northwest, and his role in bringing the railroad to Tacoma. Curator Talk Cost: $10 ($5 member and student); purchase tickets online<http://bpt.me/2484261> 2 pm Sunday January 31, TAM, 1701 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98402 Questions? Call Tacoma Art Museum, 253-272-4258.