Mark your calendars for the following upcoming event from the Charles M. Russell Center:

1. THURSDAY, FEB. 19, 2009, at 7 p.m., in the Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Lecture Title: Burning Man: On the Trail of Maynard Dixon Lecturer: Donald J. Hagerty, Author and Art Historian Description: Through the use of Maynard Dixon's writings and selected images, the lecture traces the evolution of his art and how his landscape, Native American, and Depression-era paintings responded to the fading away of an Old West and the emergence of a New West.

2. THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2009, at 7 p.m., in the Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Lecture Title: The Art of Larry McNeil: Fly by Night Mythology Lecturer: Larry McNeil, Professor of Photography Description: Larry McNeil is exploring the notion of American Mythology with his "Fly by Night Mythology" art. The art is a critical, yet lively inquiry about what happens at the intersection of cultures where satire, humor and irony play leading roles.

3. THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2009, at 7 p.m., in the Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Lecture Title: Photographer’s Double: the Historian as Photographer, the Photographer as Historian Lecturer: Dr. Richard Steven Street, Photographer, Historian and Author Description: The two-screen slide lecture describes the process by which Street sorted through 10,000 images to select a cover for Photographing Farmworkers in California (Stanford University Press, 2004). It explains the complicated thinking that underlies a seemingly simple decision. As a residual effect, it takes the viewer on a 150-year visual journey through the history of a class of people, as documented by some of the best photographers on earth.

Location:

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
555 Elm Avenue
Norman, OK 73019-3003

 

Founded in 1998, the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West is the first such university-based program in the nation. The center is dedicated to the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge in the field of American art history as it relates to the western United States. Through its resource holdings, national symposia, lecture series, course offerings and outreach programs, the Russell Center actively engages students and the public in developing a better understanding of, and appreciation for, 19th- and 20th-century Euro-American and Native American artistic traditions. Special focus is given to the art of Charles M. Russell and his contemporaries. All events are free and open to the public. For more information or accommodations on the basis of disability, contact the Russell Center at (405) 325-5939.