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  Peter Heyl Hassrick
Founding Director Emeritus Peter H. Hassrick was responsible for developing the programs and collections of the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West. He also served as the first Charles M. Russell Memorial Chair and taught each semester an upper-level and graduate course in western American art history.
Hassrick was previously, from 1996 to 1997, founding director of The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he helped to design and implement the museum’s facility and program.
Hassrick was also, from 1976 to 1996, director of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, where he guided the museum’s programs and physical and fiscal operations. He acted as curator for one of the museum’s four entities, the Whitney Gallery of Western Art, from 1976 to 1986.
Hassrick has curated numerous exhibitions, including
- Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art,
shown at the University of Oklahoma’s Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art October 6–December 6, 2001
- Inaugural Exhibition, 1997, The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, with Juan Hamilton
- In Search of Frederic Remington, 1996–1997, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, The Autry Museum (LA), Eiteljorg Museum (Indianapolis), and Cowboy Hall of Fame (Oklahoma City), with Melissa Webster
Hassrick is the author of numerous books and articles, including
- Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art
(Washington, D.C.: Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 2000)
- The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1997), as editor and author with others. Offered by the Book of the Month Club
- Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonné, in two volumes with CD-ROM (Cody: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1996), with Melissa Webster. Winner of the Director’s Award for Special Literary Achievement from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and the Joan Patterson Kerr Award from the Western History Association
- “Georgia O’Keeffe’s West,” Antiques (November, 1997)
- “Frederic Remington the Painter: A Historiographical Sketch,” Montana (Summer, 1996)
- “L’arte della Frontiera Americana,” in The American West: L’arte della Frontiera Americana (Roma: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 1994), with others
- Charles M. Russell (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989)
MA, History of Art, emphasis in American Art, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, 1967–1969
BA, History, with Minor in Classics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 1959–1963
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