Frank Reaugh: Rounded Up in Glory Lecture by Michael Grauer

$5 for Members
$15 for Non-Members

Michael Grauer will speak on the life and artwork of Frank Reaugh as a precursor to the special exhibit featuring the artwork of Reaugh and that of a selection of his students which opens on July 17. Grauer worked at the Smithsonian American Art Museum before becoming Curator of Art and Western Heritage and Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, from 1987 to 2018. He was also an adjunct lecturer in Western American Studies at West Texas A&M University. Grauer was McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture/Curator of Cowboy Collections & Western Art at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum from 2018 to 2024. He has curated over 150 exhibitions on Western art, culture, and history, and authored 65 publications, including the Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1700-1945, Rounded Up in Glory: Frank Reaugh, Texas Renaissance Man, and Making a Hand: The Art of H. D. Bugbee, which received the Western History Association Wrangler Award for Best Western Art Book for 2020.