Tour de Quartz at Gilcrease Museum
Oklahoma high school students are displaying artwork at Gilcrease Museum September – October in conjunction with the Oklahoma Arts Institute’s Tour de Quartz exhibition. Artwork featured in the Tour de Quartz exhibit was created during the 2019 Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain (OSAI), a prestigious arts academy held every June at Quartz Mountain …
“Dorothea Lange’s America” at Gilcrease
StudioTulsa Rich Fisher Learn about a new photography show at Gilcrease dedicated to the work of Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) and her peers. (The exhibit is on view through January 5, 2020.) Lange’s empathetic images documented the toll that the Depression took on the nation. The evidence was seen in the long lines of desperate, jobless …
Gilcrease and TAF collaborate on new contemporary exhibit
Tulsa People Madeline Ewing Until Oct. 13, Gilcrease Museum is showcasing “Recall/Respond,” the first of a two-part collaborative exhibition with Tulsa Artist Fellowship. The contemporary works on display provide a sensory journey with bright colors, provocative messages and intriguing sounds that all come together to portray what makes a diverse and ever-changing Oklahoma. The exhibition …
A rare copy of the Declaration of Independence goes on display at Gilcrease Museum for first time in four years. Read the story behind it
Tulsa World James Watts Thomas Gilcrease loved his copy of the Declaration of Independence almost to death. That is why, said Mark Dolph, Curator of history at Gilcrease Museum, this incredibly precious, incredibly fragile document is rarely put on public display. However, on July 2, and in honor of the 243rd birthday of the United …
Hand-Written Copy Of Declaration Of Independence Held In Tulsa’s Gilcrease Museum
News on 6 Sawyer Buccy Just in time for your Independence Day celebrations, the only known surviving hand-written copy of the Declaration of Independence will be on display right here in Tulsa. The Gilcrease Museum is just days away from opening the Celebrating American Independence: The Declaration of Independence. It has been years since the …
Recall/Respond: Tulsa Artist Fellowship & Gilcrease Museum Collaboration
When Thomas Gilcrease built his art collection through the 1940s and 1950s, he frequently worked with contemporary artists of his day. Woody Crumbo, a Potawatomi artist from Oklahoma, advised Gilcrease and helped guide his acquisitions of Native American art. Mr. Gilcrease established an artist in residence program in the 40s and 50s to support regional …
Taking Bob Dylan at Face Value
Mason Whitehorn Powell Face Value is a collection of 12 portraits in pastel by Bob Dylan that were first unveiled at the London National Portrait Gallery in 2013. These works are featured in their regional debut at the Gilcrease exhibition Bob Dylan: Face Value and Beyond, which runs through Sept. 15, 2019. Dylan’s portraiture will …
Bob Dylan to Exhibit Portraits, Handwritten Lyrics at Tulsa Art Museum
Rolling Stone Daniel Kreps Bob Dylan: Face Value and Beyond, opening this May, will also display Dylan’s Andy Warhol screen tests, leather jacket from “electric” 1965 Newport Folk Festival gig. Bob Dylan’s artwork and handwritten song lyrics will exhibit at a Tulsa, Oklahoma art museum beginning in May. The Gilcrease Museum’s “Bob Dylan: Face Value …
When news becomes history: Gilcrease brings ‘Pulitzer Prize Photographs’ exhibit to Tulsa
Tulsa World James D. Watts Jr. It was one time when Mark Dolph was quite happy to miss the bus. Dolph, the curator of history at Gilcrease Museum, was in Washington, D.C., about four years ago to take part in a conference, for which one of the planned activities was a visit to the Newseum, …
First major exhibit from Bob Dylan Archives opens May 10 at Gilcrease
Tulsa World James D. Watts Jr. A new exhibit on the life and work of Bob Dylan, centered on 12 pastel portraits that make up his “Face Value” series, will go on display May 10 at Gilcrease Museum. The exhibit, titled “Bob Dylan: Face Value and Beyond,” is the first major show to be drawn …