On View June 9 through December 13, 2023

Related Events:

• Exhibition Reception and Film Screening on June 9, 2023 at 5:30pm

  • 5:30 Film Screening of A Keen Observer with Discussion at Davidson Family Auditorium in Great Falls High School 

  • 7:00pm Exhibition Viewing and Reception at Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art 

• Curator’s Tour of the Exhibition on June 10, 2023 at 1:00pm and 1:45 pm 

• Curator’s Lecture, An Artist in the Time of Love and War, on October 20, 2023 at 5:30pm 

• Military Arts Day: A Day to Celebrate and Give Thanks to our Military Active Duty, Veterans, Families, and Friends on Saturday, November 4, 2023, 11am to 2pm

Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art presents a celebratory exhibition Il Maestro! Works by Morton Levin: A Centennial Celebration, June 9, 2023 through December 13, 2023. This unique exhibition features the work of Morton Levin (1923-2020), a master artist whose passion and unbending desire for art making and mastery led him on an intriguing life journey touched by the effects of war, love, family, life and teaching. This retrospective of Levin’s work is meant to mark 100 years of Levin’s life and is the first of its kind in a museum setting. Levin fought in World War II and survived, experienced the fervor of modernism in Europe and the United States, and received an education in the arts post WWII through a G.I. Bill—also known as the Service Men’s Readjustment Act of 1944. With access to education, a passion for art, and a means to live, Morton Levin created art, lived art, and loved through art. Though his post WWII artistic contemporaries in the United States were delving into abstract expressionism, minimalism, and conceptualism, Levin was a contemporary artist devoted to the human figure. Early works, war drawings, paintings, prints, etchings, woodcuts, and engravings fill the exhibition space. The intent is to draw attention to his imaginative work and  diversity of styles, as well as the profound understanding of artistic techniques in Levin’s career as an artist. The exhibition highlights a special selection of the artist’s body of work beginning in the 1930s through 2005, while focusing on master works within his vast artistic repertoire.

Il Maestro! Works by Morton Levin, A Centennial Celebration  is curated by Nicole Maria Evans, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, with Alanna Zrimsek, wife/partner/muse of Morton Levin. Exhibitions presented by The Square are supported in part by the Montana Arts Council a state agency funded by the State of Montana, National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor, and National Endowment for the Arts. We are funded in part by coal severance taxes paid based upon coal mined in Montana and deposited in Montana's cultural and aesthetic projects trust fund. Additional funding is provided by museum members and the citizens of Cascade County, and generous support from Horizon Credit Union, Davidson Family Foundation, and D.A. Davidson. Special support from an anonymous donor, and Kelly’s Signs and Design