National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

Oklahoma City, OK

405-478-2250

http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/

 

Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:

Lowell Ellsworth Smith: My Theology of Painting (6/27/16)

Allen True's West (3/22/11)

Indian Modernism: Selections from the Silberman Collection (11/22/06)

The First 100 Years: Southern Plains Painting and Drawing (6/26/06)

 

An Artist with the Corps of Discovery: The Lewis & Clark Suite by Charles Fritz (12/1/04)

Beneath A Turquoise Sky: Navajo Painters and Their World (5/27/04)

The Fleischaker Collection: Western and Native American Art (1/29/04)

 

Artistic Expression: Essential to a Culture -- Selections from Native American Collections (10/2/03)

The Art of American Arms Makers (7/30/03)

"To Collect, Preserve and Interpret" Permanent Exhibition at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum (5/30/03)

A Poetic Spirit -- The Enduring Art of Kenneth Riley (1/20/03)

 

Mountain, Family, Spirit: The Arts and Culture of the Ute Indians (8/19/02)

The Brotherhood of Man: Tom Ryan and the Cowboys of the 6666 Ranch; Tom Ryan and the Cowboys of the 6666 Ranch, essay segments by Susan Hallsten McGarry (10/22/01)

Legends of Our Times: Native Ranching and Rodeo Life on the Plains and Plateau (9/21/00)

 

Winter Camp: Honoring the Legacy - Contemporary Expressions of Oklahoma Tribal Art (12/4/99)

Ralph Russell Doubleday: Rodeo's First Professional Photographer (9/24/99)

Jack Cooke and Edward L. Gaylord Assume New Leadership Roles On National Cowboy Hall of Fame's Board of Directors (10/24/98)

Imagining the Open Range: Erwin E. Smith, Cowboy Photographer (9/16/98)

Prix de West Exhibition and Sale (6/98)

 

Call the museum for hours and admission information. The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is located at 1700 N.E. 63rd Street, Oklahoma City, OK. The museum sits atop Persimmon Hill just west of the I-35-1-44 Junction.

A National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum web page on recent acquisitions features these four video clips:

Photographer Brent Phelps presented a gallery talk on February 10, 2005 about his exhibition "Photographing the Lewis and Clark Trail." He discusses in this 4 1/2 minute clip the location of Sgt. Floyd's death at the I-129 Bridge and his various burials.

Painter Charles Fritz presented a gallery talk on February 11, 2005 about his exhibition "An Artist With the Corps of Discovery." In this 2 1/2 minute clip Fritz discusses the clothing worn by the men pictured in his painting, Mapping the Missouri ~ Winter Afternoon at Fort Mandan.

History Curator Richard Rattenbury makes opening remarks at a behind the scenes tour of the exhibit "The Art of American Arms Makers."

Contemporary Western artist Luke Frazier explains the apparent paradox of being both a hunter and a wildlife artist in a February 14, 2004 presentation.

 

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