Gilcrease in Your Neighborhood is ready for another year! Are you? This time our high-quality reproductions will be installed only in outdoor locations and for six months at a time each. Think: art on the trail! Five exciting locations have been chosen for this next version of our public art experience. Three you may have already visited, but two locations allowed us to build new partnerships for connecting with art while enjoying the outdoors. We know you’ll want to visit them all!
Locations
Willie Peevyhouse Davis Seated on Grass by Water
Unidentified Photographer
c. 1904-1912
Photograph, 2.75 x 3.75 in. (original)
Gilcrease Museum, 4327.10400
Gift of Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa teacher,
author and community activist
Enjoying a pastime familiar to many Oklahomans, a young woman relaxes by a lake on a sunny summer day. This photograph of Willie Peevyhouse, who settled with her parents and siblings near Okmulgee shortly before statehood, was preserved and cherished by generations of her family, including Eddie Faye Gates. Look closely around the center of the photograph – one of their fingerprints remains visible. Over a century ago, the photographer documented a moment of leisure in Black American life that today reminds us to pause and enjoy nature.
Unidentified Photographer, Willie Peevyhouse Davis Seated on Grass by Water, c. 1904-1912, Photograph, Gift of Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa teacher, author, and community activist, Gilcrease Museum.
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Brummett Echohawk (Pawnee), “An Island of Redbuds on the Cimarron”, 1968. Oil on canvas, Gilcrease Museum.
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Gilcrease in Your Neighborhood is made possible throughout the Tulsa community with support provided by:
Arts Alliance Tulsa, Dan E. and Neva L. Brannin Charitable Foundation, Frank and Carol Mulhern, William S. Smith Charitable Trust, Charles and Marion Weber Foundation, Kathleen P. Westby Foundation, Windgate Charitable Foundation Endowment