Peter H. Hassrick is Director Emeritus and Senior Scholar at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of many publications, including Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonné II, Painted Journeys: The Art of John Mix Stanley, and In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein.
Marie Watkins is Professor Emerita of Art History at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, is a specialist in American art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among her most recent publications is the essay ""Bound for Taos: In Search of American Art"" in Elevating Western American Art: Developing an Institute in the Cultural Capital of the Rockies.
Sarah E. Boehme is Curator at the Stark Museum of Art and author of contributions to Shaping the West: American Sculptors in the 19th Century; In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein; and Forging an American Identity: The Art of William Ranney.
Kelin Michael completed a research assistantship under Peter H. Hassrick at the Whitney Western Art Museum, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, in the summer of 2018, where she conducted the research that lead to her chapter on Joseph Henry Sharp's artistic influences. She received her B.A. from Oberlin College in Art History and French and her M.A. from Emory University, where she is currently a Ph.D. candidate in medieval art history.
Karen B. McWhorter is the Scarlett Curator of Western American Art for the Whitney Western Art Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. She has contributed essays to Elevating Western American Art: Developing an Institute in the Cultural Capital of the Rockies (2012), A Place in the Sun: The Southwest Paintings of Walter Ufer & E. Martin Hennings (2015), Fur Traders and Rendezvous: The Alfred Jacob Miller Online Catalogue, and Invisible Boundaries: Exploring Yellowstone's Great Animal Migrations (2016), and has authored numerous articles on contemporary western American art.
