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The Coutts Museum of Art will host “Kansas Through the Lens of F.M. Steele," a presentation and discussion by Jim Hoy at 6:30 p.m. Friday.
Members of the museum are invited to attend the free program.
In 1890, frontier photographer Francis Marion Steele set out from Dodge City to record cowboys, American Indians, wildlife, wheat harvesting, grain farming, sugar-beet factories, railroad building, community celebrations and festivals, small-town life and studio portraits. Hoy’s presentation examines how Steele’s work provides visual documentation of the Kansas character.Hoy is a professor of English and director of the Center for Great Plains Studies at Emporia State University. He is an authority on the folklife of ranching, a topic on which he has lectured throughout the world. Hoy’s publications include 10 books and more than 100 articles, and he is co-author of Plaines Folk, a syndicated newspaper column.
“Francis Marion Steele arrived in Dodge City in 1890 and immediately set out onto the prairies in a dark-room-mounted buggy to take photographs of cowboys,” said Hoy. “After the end of the open range he photographed everything from wheat farming to railroad construction to small-town life, providing in the process documentation of Kansas and the southwestern plains in the transition from the open range to crop agriculture.”
Kansas Through the Lens of F. M. Steele is part of the Kansas Humanities Council’s Kansas 150 Speakers Bureau Commemorating the Kansas sesquicentennial. The special edition Speakers Bureau features presentations and discussions about Kansas and what it means to be a Kansan over time and across generations.
The program will be held at the Coutts, 110 N. Main. The program is made possible by the Kansas Humanities Council. The Kansas Humanities Council conducts and support community-based programs, serves as a financial resource through an active grant-making program, and encourages Kansans to participate in their communities. For more information about KHC programs contact the Kansas Humanities Council at 785-357-0359 or visit www.kansashumanities.org. For more information about “Kansas Through the Lens of F.M. Steele," contact the Coutts at 321-1212.
The Coutts Museum of Art will host “Kansas Through the Lens of F.M. Steele," a presentation and discussion by Jim Hoy at 6:30 p.m. Friday.
Members of the museum are invited to attend the free program.
In 1890, frontier photographer Francis Marion Steele set out from Dodge City to record cowboys, American Indians, wildlife, wheat harvesting, grain farming, sugar-beet factories, railroad building, community celebrations and festivals, small-town life and studio portraits. Hoy’s presentation examines how Steele’s work provides visual documentation of the Kansas character.Hoy is a professor of English and director of the Center for Great Plains Studies at Emporia State University. He is an authority on the folklife of ranching, a topic on which he has lectured throughout the world. Hoy’s publications include 10 books and more than 100 articles, and he is co-author of Plaines Folk, a syndicated newspaper column.
“Francis Marion Steele arrived in Dodge City in 1890 and immediately set out onto the prairies in a dark-room-mounted buggy to take photographs of cowboys,” said Hoy. “After the end of the open range he photographed everything from wheat farming to railroad construction to small-town life, providing in the process documentation of Kansas and the southwestern plains in the transition from the open range to crop agriculture.”
Kansas Through the Lens of F. M. Steele is part of the Kansas Humanities Council’s Kansas 150 Speakers Bureau Commemorating the Kansas sesquicentennial. The special edition Speakers Bureau features presentations and discussions about Kansas and what it means to be a Kansan over time and across generations.
The program will be held at the Coutts, 110 N. Main. The program is made possible by the Kansas Humanities Council. The Kansas Humanities Council conducts and support community-based programs, serves as a financial resource through an active grant-making program, and encourages Kansans to participate in their communities. For more information about KHC programs contact the Kansas Humanities Council at 785-357-0359 or visit www.kansashumanities.org. For more information about “Kansas Through the Lens of F.M. Steele," contact the Coutts at 321-1212.
