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Mark Your Calendars for the fifth biennial symposium of the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West, which is scheduled for the Friday,
March 7, 2008.
The symposium will be held at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art on the OU Norman campus and will focus on the Eugene B. Adkins Collection of Western Art, a stunning grouping of more than 3,300 works recently acquired by the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and The Philbrook Museum of Art of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The symposium accompanies the opening of an exhibition of some of the highlights from this important collection.
Valued at approximately $50 million, the Adkins Collection includes over 400 paintings by such diverse American artists as Charles M. Russell, Alfred Jacob Miller, Maynard Dixon and John Marin. Paintings by Joseph Henry Sharp, Ernest Blumenschein, Victor Higgins and other famous early 20th century New Mexico-based artists are represented as are works by many preeminent Native American painters including Jerome Tiger and Tony Day. The collection also contains 370 extraordinary Native American ceramics and more than 1,600 pieces of Indian jewelry/silverwork.
For further details on the collection see www.ou.edu/publicaffairs/PhilbrookOUreceiveAdkinsArt.shtml
A tentative schedule for the Charles M. Russell Center’s fifth biennial symposium follows:
Friday, March 7, 2008
9:00 – 9:30 Check-in and refreshments
9:30 – 10:00 Opening Remarks
10:00 – 10:45 Session I
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:45 Session II
11:45 – 1:30 Luncheon*
1:45 – 2:30 Session III
2:30 – 2:45 Break
2:45 – 3:30 Session IV
3:30 – 4:00 Closing Remarks
* Activity requires a fee.
Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public. For more accommodations on the basis of disability, contact the Russell Center at (405) 325-5939.
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. |
