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Portrait of Cherokee leader Cunne Shote (1762) by Francis Parsons. Gilcrease Museum, also known as the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, [1] is a museum northwest of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma housing the world's largest, most comprehensive collection of art of the American West, as well as a growing collection of art and artifacts from Central and South America.
On August 22, 1908, Gilcrease married Belle M. Harlow, a member of the Osage Nation. [2] He fathered two sons with Belle: William Thomas Gilcrease, Jr., who was born on July 23, 1909, in Oklahoma and died on March 16, 1967, in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, Texas, and Barton Eugene Gilcrease, who was born on April 12, 1911, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and died on September 25, 1991, in San Antonio ...
Thomas Moran standing on a balcony, smoking a cigar, 1912. Moran was born in Bolton, Lancashire, in England, to Mary (née Higson) and Thomas Moran Sr., one of seven children. His father belonged to a family of handloom weavers. He wanted a better future to his family, so they moved to the United States in 1844, when young Thomas was 7 years old.
Gilcrease Museum main entrance. Northwest of downtown on the Osage Indian Reservation is the Gilcrease Museum, considered by many to be the finest Western American and American Indian art collection in the world. Thomas Gilcrease was a member of the Creek nation who became very wealthy after the discovery of oil on his allotment.
In 1939, the United States Treasury Department commissioned him to paint murals on the walls of its building in Washington, D.C. [1] [10] A few years later he curated a collection of Native American art at the Thomas Gilcrease Institute in Tulsa. [8] Crumbo's peyote bird design became the logo for the Gilcrease Museum. [11]
Gilcrease may refer to: Thomas Gilcrease (1890–1962), American oilman, art collector and philanthropist Gilcrease Museum , museum located northwest of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma
This list of museums in Oklahoma encompasses museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
He was the founding director of the Kanza Museum in Kaw City, Oklahoma. [citation needed] He was the first enrolled Native American to head the Heard Museum and is the first Native American, other than Thomas Gilcrease (Muscogee Creek) himself, to head the Gilcrease Museum. [3]