Join the Palmer Museum of Art for a Faculty Talk featuring Cathleen Cahill, Richards Center Acting Director.

Kathryn Woodman Leighton is best known for her portraits of Blackfeet people, including Wife and Child of Bull Plume (Maggie Bull Plume), now on view at the Palmer Museum of Art. She was also part of the Los Angeles art scene, where she painted Indigenous entertainers known as “Hollywood Indians.”

Cathleen Cahill, professor of history and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, explores how these overlooked portraits reveal a broader picture of Native American life in the early twentieth century.