Art

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 ...

Organized by the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Harlem Renaissanceincluded more than 100 paintings, sculptures, and photographs by artists such as Richmond Barthé, Aaron Douglas, Palmer Hayden, William H. Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Archibald J. Motley Jr., James VanDerZee, and others. From the “vogue” of Harlem in the twenties ...

Passport to Paris: Nineteenth-Century French Prints from the Georgia Museum of Art featured 46 works from the Georgia Museum of Art’s collection, highlighting a variety of printmaking techniques used by well-known artists of the nineteenth century. Particularly in France, these artists experimented with etching, lithography, and woodcut and adopted a ...

Organized by the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Julius Shulman: Oklahoma Modernism Rediscovered was the first-ever retrospective of photographs taken in Oklahoma by legendary architectural photographer Julius Shulman. The exhibit featured over 65 images – many unseen by the public for decades – of buildings designed by such world-renowned architects as Bruce Goff, ...

Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales, June 25 – September 20, 2009, presented a selection of 47 paintings and 11 important works on paper. These works revealed the cross-currents between artists and movements that propelled nineteenth-century painting from the romantic naturalism of J.M.W. Turner to the post-impressionism of ...

Over the course of more than forty years, New York collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel amassed one of the most significant collections of contemporary art in the United States. The couple began collecting after their marriage in 1962. Dorothy’s income as a librarian paid expenses while Herb’s salary as ...

The Dutch Italianates: 17th-century Masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery, London featured 39 paintings from the collection of Dulwich Picture Gallery, England’s oldest purpose-built public art gallery. It presented Dutch artists, such as Cornelis van Poelenburch (1594/5-1667), Adam Pynacker (1620/1-1673), Nicolaes Berchem (1620-1683), Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691), and others, who were contemporaries ...

The Oklahoma City Museum of Art launched the NEW FRONTIERS: Series for Contemporary Art with works by artist Jason Peters. NEW FRONTIERS was initiated to introduce the Oklahoma City community and region to the work of individual contemporary artists and to current perspectives in the field. NEW FRONTIERS connects the ...

Organized by the Museum, Sketch to Screen explored the vital artistic contribution of costume design throughout the history of the American motion picture industry. It consisted of more than 85 original garments and accessories worn in films by some of Hollywood’s brightest stars, including Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Audrey Hepburn, ...

Organized by the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Luis Jiménez: Works on Paper presented more than 30 drawings and lithographs created over the course of the artist’s career. The exhibition included examples from the Museum’s permanent collection in addition to loans from the collection of Joe A. Diaz, ...

The Oklahoma City Museum of Art presented Jonathan Hils: INTERSECTION, September 9, 2010, through January 3, 2011. The second installment of the NEW FRONTIERS: Series for Contemporary Art, INTERSECTION exhibited a selection of large-scale, hand-wrought automobiles by artist Jonathan Hils. These steel and aluminum sculptures expressed the artist’s interest in the American phenomena ...

For over a millennium, the Italian coastal state of the Most Serene Republic of Venice, or La Serenissima, flourished as a center for sea trade and the arts. It also became an important destination on the Grand Tour. Venice’s impressive skylines and unique network of canals, palaces, and churches ...

Alfonso Ossorio: Gifts from the Ossorio Foundation displayed eleven works created by the artist between 1949 and 1984. The exhibit included eight ink, wax, and watercolor paintings, a collage, and an etching, as well as the major assemblage piece, INXIT. The works were donated to the Museum by the Ossorio Foundation in 2008 ...