Art Talk: The Life and Art of Herbert “Buck” Dunton

January 10, 2024 | 6 – 7:30 PM  

Presented in Whiteman Hall. Limited capacity.

TICKETS: Free for Members | $5 for the general public  

Hear from Michael Grauer, McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture and Curator of Cowboy Collections and Western Art at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum as he explores the life and art of Herbert “Buck” Dunton, whose works are on view now in exhibition William Herbert “Buck” Dunton: A Mainer Goes West.

About the Speaker:

Michael Grauer is the McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture and Curator of Cowboy Collections and Western Art at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Mr. Grauer holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in art history from the University of Kansas; the Master of Arts in art history from Southern Methodist University; and the Master of Arts in history from West Texas A&M University. He has curated over 160 exhibitions on Western art, culture, and history, authored over 75 publications, and appeared in ten documentaries in the US and in Germany. He taught art history and Western American Studies at West Texas A&M University from 1999 to 2017. In September 2021, his book, Making a Hand: The Art of H. D. Bugbee, received the Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Best Western Art Book for 2020. He was inducted into the Kansas Cowboy Hall of Fame at Dodge City, Kansas, as Cowboy Historian for 2021. Grauer has been researching W. Herbert Dunton since 1989 and holds the endowed W. Herbert Dunton Chair at the Lunder Research Center at the Couse-Sharp Historic Site in Taos, New Mexico. He is currently preparing a Dunton catalogue raisonné.