Art

Arguably one of the most popular contemporary artists today, Blair Thurman’s work emphasizes his broad range of media with neon being one of his main materials. Thurman was born in New Orleans and currently lives and works in New York.  As an art student in the 1980s, he sought ...

In celebration of the many extraordinary acquisitions that have made the Oklahoma City Museum of Art the premier collecting institution in central Oklahoma, the exhibition Our City, Our Collection: Building the Museum’s Lasting Legacy tells the story of the Museum’s history as a series of transformative gifts, bequests, ...

Monet to de Kooning: Selections from the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College showcased 32 key works from the Davis Museum during renovations and upgrades to its exhibition areas. The exhibition included paintings by Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Willem de Kooning, and Lee Krasner as well as sculptures ...

Organized by the Museum and curated by Hardy George, Ph.D., this unique exhibition illustrated the sublime and sometimes destructive power of nature. With over 70 paintings, drawings, and prints from the seventeenth through the twentieth century, Tempests and Romantic Visionaries emphasized the artists’ dramatic portrayals of storms and their allegorical ...

Crosswalks presented 47 works by 14 photographers from the United States, Great Britain, and Australia. Curated by New York City photographer Mason Resnick, in collaboration with the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, the exhibition portrayed the unique, split-second revelations found through the art of street photography. Captured on the streets of New ...

Organized by the American Federation of Arts and The British Museum, Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from The British Museum featured approximately 85 objects spanning the full range of pharaonic history — from shortly before the Third Dynasty, about 2686 B.C., to the Roman occupation of the fourth century A....

Contemporary American Prints exhibited thirty exceptional works dating from the 1960s to the present. The exhibition included works by Pop artists, such as Larry Rivers, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist, as well as more recent works by Terry Winters, Suzanne McClelland, and Elizabeth Murray. It also displayed a variety of ...

In December 2006, the Museum celebrated the holiday season with a unique selection of works from its extensive print collection. Holiday Print Show exhibited more than 100 prints, many unseen for decades. Organized by the Museum and co-curated by Chief Curator Hardy George, Ph.D., and Associate Curator Alison Amick, the exhibition ...

NAPOLÉON An Intimate Portrait, a traveling exhibition from the Russell Etling Company, offered visitors an opportunity to see beyond the “legend” of Napoléon Bonaparte to gain an understanding of this complex figure as a man. Created from the collection of 1st Empire authority and author, Pierre-Jean Chalençon, ...

Oklahoma Artists: The Series, Eugene A. Bavinger presented the Museum’s collection of seven paintings by Sapulpa native Eugene A. Bavinger. A respected artist and teacher, he served the University of Oklahoma in many different roles for over twenty years. These works reveal Bavinger’s own unique style and painting ...

Leaving a Mark: The Winston and Ada Eason Collection of “Monuments of American Graphic Arts” exhibited twenty-eight nineteenth and twentieth-century prints from the Winston and Ada Eason Collection of “Monuments of American Graphic Arts.” Instrumental in founding the Museum, the Easons began collecting various types of artworks in the late-1940...

Breaking the Mold: Selections from the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1961-1968 displayed the Washington Gallery of Modern Art collection, which was purchased by the Museum in 1968. This historically important collection from the former Washington gallery played an important role in the collection and cultivation of contemporary American art movements ...

Shining Spirit: Westheimer Family Collection was an exhibition of works given over four decades by the Westheimer Family. The exhibition showcaseed more than ninety works from this remarkable collection. With styles ranging from traditional to abstract, the exhibition spanned late nineteenth-century and twentieth-century American art as well as examples from ...

This retrospective exhibition included nearly 100 paintings, drawings, and sculptures drawn from Fernando Botero’s personal collection. Selected by Dr. John Sillevis, curator of the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, and presented in eight sections, these works revealed the influence of Botero’s Colombian background on his work. Themes of religion and violence, ...

Mark Klett: Oklahoma City Panorama included twelve black and white photographs depicting a 360 degree panoramic view of downtown Oklahoma City, taken from the 30th floor of the Kerr-McGee building on July 19, 1991. Klett altered the placement of his camera approximately every forty-five minutes to capture the panoramic view of the city ...

The Tilghman Print Collection presented a selection of 22 prints donated by Charles C. Tilghman in 1982. These prints were taken from the work of the seventeenth-century French artist Claude Lorrain. Claude was one of the foremost practitioners of classical Italian landscape painting. He created hundreds of paintings of the picturesque scenery ...

Paris 1900 presented more than 100 paintings, prints, posters, ceramics, decorative objects, and sculptures, revealing the height of the Paris art scene at the turn of the twentieth century. While exploring important aspects of the art nouveau movement, the exhibition delved into other artistic and technological innovations that caused Paris to emerge ...

Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow was the first major retrospective of Brett Weston’s work in over 30 years. Although Brett Weston was a key player in the photography world during his lifetime, he was often overshadowed by his father, Edward. Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow brought to light ...

The Oklahoma City Museum of Art was the final North American venue for Roman Art from the Louvre. The sixteen-week exhibition, so large it occupied the Museum’s ground floor special exhibition gallery and the eight second floor galleries of the Museum, featured 184 works, some weighing more than 6,000 pounds. An ...

Organized by The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., American Impressionism: Paintings from The Phillips Collection showcased 54 works from the golden age of American impressionism. Included were many of the key artists of the American impressionist movement, such as Childe Hassam, Theodore Robinson, John Henry Twatchman, J. Alden Weir, and William ...