Edited by Christopher S. Beekman and Robert B. Pickering
This volume brings together an international team of contributors to reconnect field research on the shaft tombs of western Mexico (ca. 300 B.C.–A.D. 500) with museum-based research on the distinctive human figures for which the region is known. These finely made figures and dioramas have attracted the interest of archaeologists, art historians, and museum curators for over a century because of their expressiveness and rich detail, tempered by the sad fact that most of these objects were looted from shaft and chamber tombs and sold on the wider art market.
The American History Collection at Gilcrease Museum
Contributions by Kimberly Roblin, Amanda Lett, Eric Singleton and Randy Ramer
Foreword by Duane H. King
When the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence and created a new nation – the United States of America - few colonists-turned-citizens could foresee the great struggles that lay before it in the centuries to come. Forging a Nation explores those struggles—the history of the US—as told through art, artifacts, and archival materials that illuminate some three hundred years of a shared cultural experience.
Contributions by Patricia Hills, Peter J. Brownlee, Randy Ramer and Amanda Lett
The American Art-Union, based in New York City, was founded in 1844 with the goal of fostering the arts in America through education and publication. Modeled after European organizations, the American Art-Union sought to establish a national aesthetic in the United States and unite all regions of the country through art.
by Randy Ramer, Carole Klein, Kimberly Roblin and Regan Hansen
This lavishly illustrated volume presents the life and work of Cherokee woodcarver Willard Stone. Four authors, including staff of the Gilcrease Museum and one of Stone’s grandsons, provide insight into the artist’s biography, his carving techniques, his sources of inspiration, and his legacy as an Oklahoma artist. Referring to himself as a “folklorist in wood,” Stone carved his philosophy of life into his works, creating stories that glowed with universal truths and resonated with his own personality. In addition to his ability to create beautiful forms, it is his gift of storytelling that lends the carvings of Willard Stone their profound mark of distinction.
Contributions by Carole Klein, Kimberly Roblin, Gary Moore, Anne Morand, April Miller, Eric Singleton and Randy Ramer
The story of Thomas Gilcrease (1890–1962) is the story of the world’s first oil boom, of a state in its formative years, of marriages and fortunes made and lost—but most lastingly it is...
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