1986 Benefit Art Show Poster for Ok City Indian Clinic
NBC Artist Series
ABOUT THE NBC Creative person Serial
NBC Chairman Ken Fergeson has a lifelong interest in fine art and a personal mission to back up artists and share the beauty of it with as many people as possible. Almost every year since 2003, the banking concern has deputed a prominent artist with Oklahoma ties to produce an original piece of art for the NBC Artist Serial. The serial also has included a calendar and a volume, numbered and signed prints and posters the banking company has given away to customers. The original pieces are part of NBC's art collection. Participating artists have included Mike Larsen, Harold T. Holden, Jean Richardson, Kenny McKenna, Otto Duecker III, Mitsuno Ishii Reedy, Benjamin Harjo Jr., Mikel Donahue, Brent Learned, Tom Palmore, Carol Beesley, Bert D. Seabourn, Sonya Terpening, Poteet Victory and Jeff Dodd. Read more about them and meet their NBC work hither.
2021
"Homecoming" by John Newsom
"Homecoming" by John Newsom
84 x threescore inches, Oil on canvas
John Newsom thrived in his Enid, Oklahoma, upbringing merely ever yearned to travel and explore the world as a painter. Homecoming represents a visual return to his experiences in Oklahoma. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife and their two children.
After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island Schoolhouse of Design and a Main of Fine Arts from New York University, he had his outset New York exhibition in 1995, when he was only 25. Since that first show, his work has been exhibited in the United states of america, across Europe, and in Nippon. His paintings are included in the permanent collections of numerous public institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Neuberger Museum of Fine art, Purchase, NY; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; and the Rhode Island Schoolhouse of Design Museum, Providence, RI. Articles and reviews of his work take appeared in Artforum, Fine art in America, Flash Art, The New Yorker and The New York Times, amidst others.
Memories of driving for miles as a teenager along the open roads and prairies of Oklahoma inspired Newsom's 2021 painting, Homecoming. Newsom said:
I wanted to create an iconic paradigm using timeless motifs from the Oklahoma landscape. The bison is a potent, yet contemplative fauna from the plains. The scissor-tailed flycatcher is the state bird of Oklahoma, and the Indian Blanket is the country wildflower. Combined together these images get the perfect chorus. Information technology is with great sincerity and reverence for the natural landscape of Oklahoma and its inhabitants, that this very meaningful and special painting has come up into being.
2020
"Lady Justice Series" by dg smalling
"Lady Justice Series" by dg smalling
60-inch by 53-inch acrylic on birch panel
"Lady Justice Series" past Oklahoma City creative person dg smalling is the 16th deputed painting in the NBC Oklahoma Artist Serial. It continues the bank's and Chairman Ken Fergeson's longtime back up of the arts.
Information technology is the first in smalling's series of works derived from the Operation Lady Justice serial used by the U.S. Section of Interior's multi-agency law enforcement initiative combatting violence against women. He designed it to capture the vibrancy of Lady Justice featured as a Native American adult female; she is holding a shield and cloaked in a blanket representing 24-hour interval and dark.
smalling, a Denizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, was born in Waxahachie, Texas, spent his first few years around Idabel and Haworth and by the age of 8 had traveled to Switzerland, Republic of cameroon, and Due south Africa with his parents, who were missionaries. He had admission to exceptional fine art programs in Democracy and international schools. He graduated from high school in Johannesburg, South Africa, and then attended the University of Oklahoma. His piece of work focused on crisis management in the Balkans.
Several exhibitions have featured smalling's art, including Epcot Disney Globe, Oklahoma's Centennial Evidence, the Grand Palais in Paris, France, and National Museum of the American Indian in Washington. The artist'due south commissioned work includes portraits of U.S. Justice Sandra Mean solar day O'Connor, U.S. Congressman Tom Cole and T. Boone Pickens.
"Justice herself, is uplifting. … Justice is a potent woman," smalling said. "I enjoy the colors and the vibrancy of Lady Justice featured as a Native American adult female holding a shield with a powerful interlocking-artillery design, armed with a lance/pen, and cloaked in a coating representing day and night. She invokes the ideal of community that teaches an individual that 50 pct responsibility is to your people and 50 percent responsibility is to yourself and that lessons along the style are universal in life, not but afforded to one group of people."
2019
Frontier Rodeo Visitor Yearlings by Jeff Dodd
"Borderland Rodeo Company Yearlings" by Jeff Dodd
60-inch by 53-inch oil on panel
A Kingfisher, OK, native, Jeff Dodd at present lives outside of Arnett, OK, and his paintings ofttimes repeat the landscapes and big, beautiful bluish skies that he sees in his home state.
"God's handiwork can sometimes take your jiff abroad," he says.
Dodd has spent a lot of time photographing bucking broncos and bulls at the Frontier Rodeo Co. in Liberty, OK, and his work for NBC, "Frontier Rodeo Company Yearlings," is 1 that sprung from his fourth dimension with the animals and the ranch hands that work with them.
He earned his bachelor's degree in fine arts from Oklahoma State University and attended The Art Students League of New York earlier returning to this part of the land. Every bit a main's degree student at Wichita State University in Wichita, KS, Dodd received a landscape project commission and focused in that management. He started his art career producing pencil drawings and watercolors and then taught himself his own manner of oil painting. Two of his large murals, called "Oklahoma Black Gilded" and "We Belong to the Land," are permanently on display at the Oklahoma State Capitol above the Senate and Business firm chambers. People tin can see his work also at the Philbrook Museum of Fine art, Tulsa, OK, and at the Norman Regional Hospital Healthplex, Norman, OK.
2018
Undivisive past Poteet Victory
"Undivisive" by Poteet Victory
xl-inch by 40-inch oil on linen
Native American creative person Poteet Victory showcases his passion for contrast and color with the work for NBC he calls "Undivisive"; information technology is role of his series The Abbreviated Portrait. The entire work is painted with his skilled use of a palette knife and reflects his dearest of color.
Victory was born and reared in Idabel, OK, and grew up in the rodeo circuit riding bulls and wild horses. He is Choctaw and Cherokee, from his paternal grandmother. His mentor, well known artist and fellow Idabel native Harold Stephenson, encouraged Victory to pursue art, and he spent two years in New York attention The Art Students League of New York earlier branching out to refine his own style of painting.
His work as a contemporary Native American artist is in demand worldwide. He is the first abstract artist to be invited to exhibit at the prestigious Prix de West, hosted past the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. His current piece of work is exhibited in his gallery, Victory Gimmicky, in Santa Fe, NM, and at the Howell Gallery of Fine Art in Oklahoma City. It has also been exhibited internationally in London at the Halcyon Gallery at Harrods.
2017
Prairie Oasis by Sonya Terpening
"Prairie Oasis" by Sonya Terpening
30-inch by 36-inch oil on linen
Artist Sonya Terpening is drawn to the American W and its history.
"There is something about the past that we all share that makes us meliorate for remembering information technology," she says. "I call back art touches the soul and teaches in the ways that words cannot."
Terpening has been painting professionally for more than than 30 years in both oil and watercolor mediums. She grew up in Texas merely graduated from Sequoyah High School exterior of Claremore, OK. She studied at Oklahoma Country Academy and currently lives in Grapevine, TX.
Her work has been function of the prestigious Prix de West International show, hosted by the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma Urban center, for 23 years and to the Masters of the American Due west at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles for 12 years. In 2008, Terpening received a gold medal in watercolor at the Masters of the American West bear witness. She was a featured artist at the 2006 Rendezvous at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, OK, and the 2014 recipient of the National Daughters of the American Revolution's Women in the Arts recognition award. She also was the inaugural recipient of OSU's Smelser-Vallion Visiting Artist for the Doel Reed Center for the Arts in Taos, NM.
2015
Medicine Bird by Bert D. Seabourn
"Medicine Bird" by Bert D. Seabourn
twoscore-inch by 40-inch arcylic on canvas
Bert D. Seabourn views his art like the Oklahoma air current — constantly changing, growing and finding new directions, he says. He also strives to convey deep feelings near dazzler, grace and the world around him as he uses his ancestry as subjects in a bulk of the paintings. His painting for NBC shows the face of an Indian medicine human with a Kingfisher medicine bird.
Seabourn was born in Red Barn, TX, and went to loftier school in Purcell, OK. He studied art at Oklahoma City Academy, the University of Oklahoma and the Famous Artists Schoolhouse in Wilton, CT. His work is part of art collections and exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and S Africa, including China's National Palace Museum, the Vatican, the American Embassy in London; and the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. His honors include the 1982 Governor'due south Art Award; the 1976 Master Artist accolade by the 5 Civilized Tribes Museum in Muskogee, OK; the 2004 Oklahoma's Living Treasure Honor; and a Lifetime Achievement Award and 2009 Creative person of the Year Award from the Paseo Art Association in Oklahoma City. One of his notable works, "Wind Walker," is a 23-pes tall bronze sculpture of a cherry-tailed militarist and a medicine man that stands outside the Oklahoma attorney general's part.
Seabourn is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer and instructor. He lives in Oklahoma Metropolis.
2014
The Barefaced, Johnson Ranch Near Guymon, OK, past Carol Beesley
"The Barefaced, Johnson Ranch Nigh Guymon, OK" by Carol Beesley
36-inch by 48-inch oil on canvas
Norman, OK, artist Carol Beesley grew upward reading bright descriptions of the American West, and these stories by novelist Zane Grey heightened her own involvement of take chances in the crude terrain, mountains and canyons described in these books. Today, she paints the places of her own adventures after get-go visiting them to take photographs.
"In what many viewers see as desolate and dry, I see the history of our world," she says.
Beesley has a chief's degree in English language and taught for a short fourth dimension before returning to the classroom to study fine art mediums ranging from ceramics to painting to photography. She has master's degrees in ceramics and American literature from the Academy of Dallas and the University of Kentucky, respectively, as well as a master's degree in fine arts from the University of California, Los Angeles. She besides was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to study fine art history at Columbia University in New York.
Presently afterwards graduating from UCLA, Beesley went to piece of work for the University of Oklahoma to teach history of photography, cartoon and painting. In her 26 years as an art professor, she developed her own unique style of mural painting featuring rich, dense colors. She also is a collector of photography and the Carol Beesley Hennagin Collection features more than than 100 images at OU's Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art in Norman.
2012
Oklahoma Spirit by Tom Palmore
"Oklahoma Spirit" by Tom Palmore
twoscore-inch by 30-inch acrylic and oil on canvas
Tom Palmore loves his country, its history, its heritage and its flag, and that dearest is reflected in his interpretation of Oklahoma's state flag in this painting for NBC. He sees peace and harmony through the pipe and olive branch while the Osage shield represents Oklahoma's unique heritage. The hummingbirds in this work correspond the free and colorful spirit of Oklahomans. Infusing his paintings with wit and whimsy, Palmore also strives to reflect his respect and love for animals in much of his work.
He attended the University of Nevada at Reno; North Texas State Academy and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Honors include the Toppan Award from the Pennsylvania Academy of Art and the Chelterham Fine art Center, both in Philadelphia; purchase awards from the Whitney Museum of American Fine art, New York; and the Artist of the Twelvemonth Award from Santa Fe (NM) Magazine.
His work appears in numerous collections across the U.s., including the Smithsonian Establishment; the Whitney Museum; the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Denver Museum of Art; the New Orleans Museum of Art; the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY; the St. Louis Museum of Fine art; and the Indianapolis Museum of Fine art.
2011
The Gathering at Medicine Creek Lodge by Brent Learned
"The Gathering at Medicine Creek Lodge" past Brent Learned
40-inch by 60-inch acrylic on canvas
Brent Learned is an award-winning Native American artist who draws, paints and sculpts the American Indian in a rustic , impressionistic style. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and signs his piece of work with his Indian name "Haa Naa Jaa Ne-doa," which means Buffalo Bull Howling. Underneath his name he signs "Arapaho" in honor of his mother.
The painting Learned created for NBC depicts the 1867 Medicine Guild peace treaty negotiations between the U.South. military and Plains Indian tribes of the Nifty Plains. In the painting, the Cheyenne Canis familiaris Soldiers enter the Medicine Creek Lodge grounds in their total military regalia; more than 500 of these soldiers showed upwardly to take part in the treaty signing.
"Once the Cheyenne Domestic dog Soldiers neared the site of the campgrounds on horses decorated with war paint, they let out chilling war cries and fired rifles into the air," Learned writes. "Their horses whipped through tall grass as the Dog Soldiers brandished their feathered lances and rode with rifles loftier over their heads."
Born and reared in Oklahoma Metropolis, Learned has a available'southward degree in fine arts from the University of Kansas. His work can be found in individual collections that include the Oklahoma Governor's Mansion, the Kerr Foundation, Oklahoma Urban center; and the Haskell Indian University, Lawrence, Kan.; and at the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of the American Indian and the Democratic National Headquarters, Washington; the Cheyenne-Arapaho Museum, Clinton, OK; the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City; Academy of Kansas Art Museum, Lawrence, KS, amid others. Committee work includes the Native American Heritage Celebration affiche art in 2005; the Association of American Indian Physicians in 2004; Red Earth, Oklahoma City; and Oklahoma City Public Schools.
2010
Winter's Solstice by Mikel Donahue
"Wintertime's Solstice" by Mikel Donahue
22-inch by 33-inch colored pencil and watercolor
Inspired by both the work and dearest of the equus caballus and cowboy, Oklahoma artist Mikel Donahue is living his dream of cartoon, painting and raising horses. His dandy-grandfather was a cowboy pioneer, and his grandfather painted Western art, and the Tulsa native learned to dear and appreciate both worlds. He expresses this honey using colored pencil, watercolor, acrylic and oils on newspaper and sheet.
He is involved with working ranches and in the quarter horse industry and understands the bail between animals and humans and how to recognize their unique personalities equally they piece of work together.
The Cowboy Artists of America named Donahue to its elite artists' organization in 2012. Other honors include winning the Premier Platinum Award from the Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale in 2010 in Cody, WY, for his colored pencil and watercolor work "Long Days," being selected for the Prix de W Invitational Testify and Auction at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma Urban center and existence the featured artist in 2009 at the American Horse in Art Prove and Sale at the American Quarter Equus caballus Museum in Amarillo, TX. He also won Best of Show two out of three years at the Working Ranch Cowboy Association Evidence and Auction and the Will Rogers Award for creative person of the year from the Academy of Western Artists. His piece of work hangs in museums, galleries and private collections, and it has been featured on the covers and stories of a wide range of magazines. He and his wife breed running quarter horses outside Cleaved Arrow, OK.
2009
Land of Dreams by Benjamin Harjo Jr.
"Land of Dreams" by Benjamin Harjo Jr.
28-inch by 36-inch acrylic on paper
Coming from a heritage of Seminole and Absentee Shawnee Native Americans, Benjamin Harjo Jr. sees the earth and its creators in vibrant colors and geometric patterns. He sees Oklahoma as a colorful melting pot of the West and says information technology is "a state of dreams and hope, a state of color and change, a land of blocks with cities and towns and a melding of traditions."
Harjo had no formal training in high school and was self-taught before attending the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM, where he worked elements of woodblock printmaking, color and pattern into his style. He eventually transferred to Oklahoma State University and earned his bachelor's caste in fine arts from at that place.
His extensive awards include being named a 2009 Oklahoma Living Treasure and Honored 1 at the 17th annual Carmine Earth Festival and honored with the Woody Crumbo Memorial Award at the Santa Fe Indian Market, Distinguished Alumnus of OSU and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Paseo Arts Clan, Oklahoma City. He also represented Oklahoma in an Absolut Vodka Campaign and was the official affiche creative person of the Southwestern Clan for Indian Arts' Santa Fe Indian Market. The Smithsonian'southward National Museum of the American Indian has twice made him the featured creative person for its almanac Aspen Benefit.
His piece of work hangs in individual collections and in the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History equally office of the Fred E. Brown Collection, Norman, OK; the Reddish World Arts Center, Oklahoma Metropolis; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa; the Wheelright Museum, Santa Fe; and the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington.
2008
Dazzler and Strength by Mitsuno Ishii Reedy
"Beauty and Strength" by Mitsuno Ishii Reedy
30-inch past xl-inch oil on canvas
Mitsuno Ishii Reedy of Norman is a well-known portrait artist whose work hangs in the Oklahoma State Capitol and in corporate offices and private offices effectually the world. She is a native of Osaka, Japan, who came to the The states at age 20; her career as an artist began in the 1970s, and she has studied with notable pastel artists and oil painters.
Even though she is known for her portrait work, she likewise is inspired by landscapes, still lifes, flowers and different cultures and enjoys plein-air paintings completed on site outdoors.
She has painted commissioned portraits of Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry; Herrera de la Fuente, maestro of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic; U.S. Commune Judge Wayne Alley of Oklahoma Metropolis and the tardily Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti. The Portrait Society of American recognized her portrait of Alley in its 2001 international competition.
Reedy's honors include election to the Pastel Society of America in 1978 equally a full member; to the Pastel Club of Nihon in 2001 as an associate fellow member; The Portrait Institute; the Marquis Who's Who as an artist; Who'southward Who in the South and Southwest and in American Fine art, and others. Her work has appeared in various publications and can exist constitute in public places that include the Oklahoma Land Capitol and the U.Due south. District Bankruptcy Court, both in Oklahoma City; the Greenwood Cultural Middle, Tulsa, OK; the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and the Purdue University's business school, W Lafayette, IN. She attended and graduated from Studio Incamminati's School for Contemporary Realist Fine art, Philadelphia, in 2015.
2007
"Alone Master Cheyenne" by Otto Duecker 3
"Solitary Chief Cheyenne" by Otto Duecker Three
23-inch by 19-inch oil on board
A master artist of precise item, Duecker has used a photographic portrait taken by Edward Curtis, a Due north American Indian lensman, to paint in item what the photographic camera captured. He then painted the "snapshot" taped to a rough and croaky background for his NBC painting "Lone Chief Cheyenne." The painting is an example of his variation of the New Realism art move. With his extreme attention to detail, he is considered an American Hyperrealist painter and is also a draughtsman.
Duecker was born in Milwaukee and raised in the Netherlands, Turkey and Germany before his family settled in Oklahoma. He earned a bachelor'south degree in fine arts from Oklahoma State University and taught for more than a decade before gaining attention for the homo figures he was painting in precise particular.
His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and can be institute in major private collections, including that of Walter Forbes, Ralph Lauren and Danielle Steele. He has had solo exhibitions in New York, Arizona, Florida, New Mexico and Oklahoma. The galleries and museums that have his piece of work include the Oklahoma City Museum of Art; the Philbrook Museum of Fine art, Tulsa, OK; the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Fine art at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; the Hummer Galleries, New York; Plus One Gallery, London; LewAllan Gallery, Santa Fe., NM; Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI; and One thousand.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa.
2006
Prairie Sentinel past Kenny McKenna
"Prairie Sentinel" past Kenny McKenna
40-inch past 32-inch oil on linen
One time a full-time musician, Kenny McKenna now finds music in the images he paints of the mountains, the plains, wildlife and other landscapes.
The Kansas Music Hall of Fame and Due south Dakota Rock and Roll Music Hall of Fame member spent years traveling the country for his music and on family road trips, and he eventually started painting the landscapes he saw on his travels. McKenna honed his visual art skills under the direction of Texas creative person Dalhart Windberg. In 1995 came his kickoff major commission: The Grand Canyon Railway in Williams, Ariz., commissioned him for several paintings in a permanent display. That aforementioned twelvemonth, the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa accepted ane of his paintings for its American Art in Miniature exhibit, and he continued participating in that for years. Working in oils, his impressionistic painting style brings in sunlight, is filled with colour harmonies and exude calmness.
The Oklahoma Arts Council, Oklahoma governor's office and Friends of the Capitol commissioned his work for an art installation in 2018 honoring the Oklahoma State Capitol Building'due south Centennial, and his piece of work has been part of exhibits throughout the region and beyond, including at Masters of the American Westward, Autry National Heart, Los Angeles; Small Works Keen Wonders, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City; Collectors' Reserve, Gilcrease Museum; Nighttime of Artists Exhibition and Sale, Briscoe Western Art Museum, San Antonio, TX; and Nature Works Wildlife Show and Sale, Tulsa. McKenna's art has been featured in magazines such as Art of the West, Southwest Fine art and Western Art Collector. He lives in Oklahoma Urban center.
2005
Prairie Rainbow by Jean Richardson
"Prairie Rainbow" by Jean Richardson
45-inch by 65-inch acrylic on canvas
A native of Oklahoma, Jean Richardson comes from a long line of relatives who made their home in the West: Her grandparents were ranchers, and her heritage includes old family stories of pioneering on the Great Plains. In this painting for NBC, Richardson depicts the dreamlike movement of horses across a plain, an image that shows off her fascination with form, Western myth and family history. She views horses as a symbol of the homo spirit. Her interests are in color, course, move and energy rather than literal renderings; they showcase a fascination with the timelessness of myth.
Western photographer Edward Curtis and the American Luminists, whose works played with the furnishings of low-cal in landscape, influenced Richardson's work. She reinterprets vast skies and limitless prairies in her abstract expressionism and is known for using precious stone tones and earthen hues for her colors.
Richardson has been painting since she was 7 years onetime. She has a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Wesleyan College in Macon, GA, and studied at The Fine art Students League of New York. Her work is part of collections at the Gilcrease Museum and Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; the National Academy of Blueprint, New York; and the Minnesota Museum of Fine art, St. Paul, MN.; and the State of Oklahoma. She has also been featured in exhibitions nationwide and is a member of Who's Who in American Art and Who'due south Who in the Southward and Southwest.
2004
Mornin' Mounts by Harold "H" Holden
"Mornin' Mounts" by Harold "H" Holden
30-inch by 40-inch oil
Harold "H" Holden'southward vast experience with horses is the driving force behind his art — sculpture and painting — and the view from his fine art studio in Kremlin, OK, could practically populate the scene he depicted hither. The artist'southward achievements in Western art can be found in the Oklahoma State Capitol, on the 1993 U.S. Postal service's Cherokee Strip Commemorative Stamp, in books and on mag covers. See his sculptures in public art installations statewide, including in Altus, OK, where NBC Oklahoma commissioned him for the "Crossing the Red" and "Vision Seeker" monuments. His public sculpture work includes "We Will Retrieve," the kneeling cowboy he created for the Oklahoma Land University'south basketball team's plane crash memorial in the Gallagher-Iba Arena in Stillwater; the "Will Rogers on Horseback" at the Will Rogers World Airdrome in Oklahoma City; "Boomer" in Enid, OK; and "Headin' to Market" at the Oklahoma City Stockyards. He also sculpted a series of commemorative bronzes to depict the 165-year history of the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma and Kansas.
Holden attended Oklahoma State University and after graduating from the Texas Academy of Art in Houston, he started working in the commercial art field, somewhen becoming art managing director at Western Horseman Magazine. At night, he began his fine fine art career. After a tour of duty with the U.S. Navy in Vietnam, Holden returned to art total-time. He received several commissions from the National Cattlemen'south Clan between 1982 and 1986, and collectors took detect. Forth the way, he spent leisure time roping and being part of the cowboy way of life, which helped inform his fine art.
Holden received the Oklahoma Governor'south Arts Award in 2001, was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 2014; and was inducted into the exclusive Cowboy Artists of America in 2012. He also has received a Lifetime Achievement Honor from the Oklahoma Sculpture Order, amidst other awards. His piece of work is in the museum collections of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, the Oklahoma State Capitol and the Oklahoma History Heart, all in Oklahoma City; the Ranching Heritage Museum in Lubbock, TX; the Whitney Gallery at the Buffalo Nib Museum in Cody, WY; the Elizabeth Dunnegan Gallery of Fine Art in Bolivar, MO; and the Museum of the Cherokee Strip in Enid. He and Mike Larsen, another NBC Oklahoma Artist Series Artist, had a two-man show chosen "Cowboys and Indians" at the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 2017.
2003
Legend Keeper by Mike Larsen
"Legend Keeper" by Mike Larsen
30-inch by 40-inch acrylic
Depicting his own Native American ancestors, Oklahoma painter and sculpture Mike Larsen gives visual tribute to a unique component of American history. Significant American Indian events and ideas shown in his creations are indigenous to Oklahoma. The Perkins, OK, native and member of the Chickasaw Nation has received numerous awards for his work. The Five Civilized Tribes Museum named Larsen a Master Creative person in 1996 when his 26-human foot-long mural "Flight of the Spirit" honoring five Native American ballet dancers was installed in the Oklahoma State Capitol.
Larsen considers himself a historian with a purpose of providing a living visual history of a vibrant people. His oils, watercolors, pastels and sculptures can exist seen in museums and private collections throughout the United States.
Larsen studied traditional art disciplines at Amarillo Junior Higher, Amarillo, TX;; the University of Houston; and at The Arts Educatee League of New York.
His series of eight murals depicting the heritage of southwest Oklahoma, called "Quartz Mountain Sacred Ground," graces the entrance hall of the Quartz Mount Arts and Conference Center in Solitary Wolf, OK, north of Altus, OK. In the 1990s he painted 36 of the 39 federally recognized tribes in Oklahoma in a serial called "Shamans of the Nations."
Larsen was inducted into the Chickasaw Hall of Fame in 2000 and the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 2015 and was named Oklahoma Today's Oklahoman of the Year in 2006. In 2004, his tribe commissioned him to paint portraits of its living elders, a project that turned into the book "They Know Who They Are." A second book — "I am Proud to Be Chickasaw" followed, and a tertiary set of 24 living elder paintings was in the works as of 2018. Other prominent commissions include painting six murals for the Reynolds Performing Arts Centre and the School of Dance at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; a nine-human foot sculpture in front of the Civic Center Music Hall, Oklahoma City; 8, viii-by-twenty-human foot murals for the Pokagon band of the Potawatomi Tribe, New Buffalo, MI; and a 12-foot sculpture at the St. Joseph Regional Healthcare System, Patterson, NJ. His autobiography "Don't Never Exist Afraid of Your Horses" was published in 2017. He and Harold Holden, another NBC Oklahoma Artist Serial Artist, had a 2-human bear witness chosen "Cowboys and Indians" at the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 2017.
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