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Oklahoma City Museum of Art Executive Staff Glen Gentele, President & CEO Hardy S. George, Ph.D. , Chief Curator Rodney Lee, Finance Director Kenneth H. Lindquist, Development Director

Editorial Staff Alison Amick, Associate Curator Chandra Boyd, Education Curator Jim Eastep, Membership Officer Nicole Emmons, Editor Brian Hearn, Film Curator Jennifer Klos, Assistant Curator Leslie A. Spears, Communications Manager

Board of Trustees Officers Frank D. Hill, Chairman Virginia Meade Fox, Immediate Past Chairman Elby J. Beal, Chairman-Elect Leslie S. Hudson, Vice-Chairman Judy M. Love, Vice-Chairman Duke R. Ligon, Vice-Chairman Peter B. Delaney, Treasurer John R. Bozalis, M.D., Secretary

*James C. Meade *Lifetime Trustee Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center 415 Couch Drive Oklahoma City, OK 73102 (405) 236-3100 Fax: (405) 236-3122 www.okcmoa.com Readers’ comments are welcome. E-mail nemmons@okcmoa.com. Requests for permission to reprint any material appearing in this publication should be sent to the address above.

Welcome! It is a great pleasure and honor for me to write to you as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Since my arrival, I have had the opportunity to meet many people, including city officials, civic leaders, business leaders, artists, collectors, and numerous members of the community. This process is ongoing and exciting and would not be possible without the work of the Museum’s Board of Trustees. My wife, Shannon Fitzgerald, and I have been extended a wonderful and much appreciated welcome by Oklahoma City and so I also wish to thank you. As you know, Carolyn Hill recently retired after 14 years of amazing leadership at the Museum and in the community. In special recognition of Carolyn’s service to the Museum, a purchase of companion paintings by the brilliant nineteenth-century Italian artist Ippolito Caffi was recently made. This acquisition was generously funded by an Inasmuch Foundation grant made to honor Carolyn Hill. These paintings by Caffi are incredible additions to the Museum’s permanent collection and will honor Carolyn for many years to come. You can read more about the artist and the paintings on page 7 of this issue of the newsletter. There are many wonderful programs happening at OKCMOA, and it is with great enthusiasm for future projects and exhibitions, lectures, special events, and education programs that I invite you to visit. We want to delight, challenge, and inspire you to participate in the Museum, and I look forward to seeing you soon. Remember - the Harlem Renaissance exhibition runs through April 19, and the Museum’s Roof Terrace will reopen on April 30! I look forward to working with everyone at the Museum, and with your support, in continuing the excellent exhibitions, education programs, films, and community outreach that have become such an integral part of the Museum’s outstanding history. With best wishes,

Photo by Jim Meeks

Frank W. Merrick J. Edward Barth *Charles E. Nelson Katy Boren Maurice C. Nickell, D.D.S. William M. Cameron Cynda Ottaway Teresa L. Cooper Morris Permenter *Marion DeVore John P. Porter Theodore M. Elam Christopher P. Reen *Nancy Payne Ellis Marianne Rooney *Shirley Ford Robert J. Ross Preston G. Gaddis II Amalia Miranda Silverstein, M.D. David T. Greenwell Darryl G. Smette Kirk Hammons Jeanne Hoffman Smith Suzette Hatfield Denise Semands Suttles K. Blake Hoenig Jordan Tang, Ph.D. Joe M. Howell, D.V.M. Lyndon C. Taylor The Honorable Willa D. Johnson Wanda Otey Westheimer Penny M. McCaleb Charles E. Wiggin Katie McClendon Marsha Wooden Frank McPherson

Dear Members and Friends

Glen Gentele President & CEO

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Inside Exhibitions..............................................................Pages 3-5 The Collection........................................................Pages 6-7 Calendar...................................................................Pages 8-9 Film.......................................................................Pages 10-11 Education...........................................................Pages 12-13 News....................................................................Pages 14-15

Mission statement The Oklahoma City Museum of Art enriches lives through the visual arts. State Capitol Bank © J. Paul Getty Trust. Used with permission. Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Research Library at the Getty Research Institute.

Passport to Paris

Nineteenth-Century French Prints from the Georgia Museum of Art

assport to Paris: Nineteenth-Century French Prints from the Georgia Museum of Art will be on view at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art from April 30 through June 7, 2009. Featuring 46 works from the Georgia Museum of Art’s collection, Passport to Paris highlights 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 range of themes and styles in portraying modern life. After the French Revolution, artists began to depict a greater variety of subjects, such as landscapes, portraits, and satires of everyday life. Rural landscapes, a significant theme in art since the seventeenth century, experienced a rebirth in the hands of the Barbizon painter-printmakers. As seen in his etching Les Bêcheurs [The Diggers], Jean François Millet (1814-1875) centered his artistic life on the activities of rural life, particularly the lives of peasants, and he remained in Barbizon (near Fontainbleau, France) until his death in 1875. Charles François Daubigny (18171878), also associated with the Barbizon movement, captured rural life in the depiction of covered wagons in the etching Les Charettes de Roulage [Good Wagons]. Daubigny’s Voyage de Nuit [Night Journey] and other landscape etchings are often considered as precursors to later impressionist techniques. Considered one of the greatest nineteenthcentury etchers, Charles Meryon (1821-1868) traveled the world as a naval officer and was known to draw during his voyages. He resigned James Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836-1902). Le Hamoc [The Hammock], 1880. Etching and drypoint on old laid paper, 22 x 16 inches (frame) his naval commission (55.9 x 40.6 cm). Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia. Gift of in 1846 and moved to Alfred H. Holbrook, GMOA 1966.1554 Paris to experiment with art. Chateau de Chenonceau [Castle of Chenonceau] captures his inspiration of the impressive architecture of the French castle in the finest details. Also considered one of the greatest etchers of the century, James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), born in New England, studied in Paris before establishing himself in London and introducing the French practice of etching and lithography as a serious medium for painters. Invented in 1798 in Germany, the process of lithography began as an inexpensive commercial process and became widely used by artists in the nineteenth century. This printing technique involves drawing on a stone

surface with a crayon. The relative simplicity of the technique and the similarity in line and tonal quality to drawing appealed to artists such as Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault (1791-1824), who is considered by some to be the father of the romantic movement of painting in France in the first half of the century. Honoré Daumier (1808-1879), a graphic satirist and master of the medium, was a prolific lithographer. One of Daumier’s prints from his Moeurs Conjugales [Marital Customs] series is included in the exhibition, as are prints by Paul Gavarni (1804-1866), who has been compared to Daumier. The popularity of printmaking with impressionist artists contributed to the revival of the medium toward the end of Edouard Manet (1832–1883). L’Acteur Tragique [The Tragic Actor], 1866. Etching on laid paper, 22 x 16 the century. Edouard Manet’s (1832inches (frame) (55.9 x 40.6 cm.) Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia. Gift of Alfred H. Holbrook, 1883) etchings titled L’Acteur Tragique GMOA 1967.1850 [The Tragic Actor] and Olympia reflect the realistic, yet impressionistic style of his modern portraits. Mary Cassatt’s (1845-1926) La Coiffure [The Hairstyle], the only work in color in Passport to Paris, reflects the artist’s mastery of drypoint and aquatint in her prevalent theme of women and motherhood. James Jacques-Joseph Tissot’s (1836-1902) Le Hamoc [The Hammock] reflects an influence of Japanese prints in his depiction of a woman lying in her hammock. Other artists included in the exhibit are Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Odilon Redon, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Paul Gaugin. Organized by the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, this exhibition is supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. The Council is a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Charles Meryon (1821-1868). Château de Chenonceau [Castle of Chenonceau], ca. 1856. Etching on paper, 16 x 22 inches (frame) (40.6 x 55.9 cm). Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia. Gift of Alfred H. Holbrook, GMOA 1967.1858

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Julius Shulman

Oklahoma Modernism Rediscovered

rganized by the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Julius Shulman: Oklahoma Modernism Rediscovered is the first-ever retrospective of photographs taken in Oklahoma by legendary architectural photographer Julius Shulman. The exhibit runs from April 30 through June 7 and will feature over 65 images – many unseen by the public for decades – of buildings designed by such worldrenowned architects as Bruce Goff, Herb Greene, William Caudill, Truett Coston, Robert Roloff, and Paul Harris. Twenty-one architectural projects from six Oklahoma cities and towns will be represented in the exhibition, including Photo by Gerard Smulevich homes, banks, churches, museums and hospitals. “When several of Julius Shulman’s Oklahoma photographs began appearing in the recently published books of his work, a handful of passionate local collectors reached out to him about the possibility of exhibiting this virtually unseen work. Mr. Shulman was very enthusiastic about his work in Oklahoma and agreed to work with our Museum to develop this special exhibition in collaboration with the Getty Research 2008-2009 Institute. We believe these SEASON SPONSORS extraordinary PRESENTING SEASON SPONSOR images stand alone as Inasmuch Foundation photographic works of art SEASON SPONSORS while celebrating Allied Arts Foundation Oklahoma’s Chesapeake Energy Corporation unique architectural Devon Energy Corporation heritage,” stated Kirkpatrick Foundation curator Brian Oklahoma Arts Council Hearn. Perhaps Great Plains Coca-Cola Bottling Company best known MidFirst Bank • OGE Corporation for his iconic SandRidge Energy, Inc. photographs of Quest Resource Corp. Los Angeles’ Case Cox Oklahoma • The Oklahoman Study houses and Thatcher Hoffman Smith Film Endowment of Palm Springs EDUCATION SPONSORS architecture, Sarkeys Foundation and Sonic, America’s Drive-In Shulman’s Arts Education Endowments incredible

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Jones House © J. Paul Getty Trust. Used with permission. Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Research Library at the Getty Research Institute.

body of work includes more than 70,000 images. Now archived at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, Shulman’s photographs encompass a 70-year-and-counting career that includes thousands of images of buildings that would have been likely overlooked by the architectural world had he not photographed them. Throughout his long career, Shulman often ventured inland from his base in California to explore the modernist movement in other regions of the United States. During these trips, which spanned over 30 years, he frequently stopped in Oklahoma and photographed some of the state’s most innovative modern architecture. The long, low lines and bold forms of mid-century architecture were an especially good fit when placed against the backdrop of Oklahoma’s flat plains and vast, often mercurial skies. Shulman’s lens dramatically captured this symbiotic relationship in images of Greene’s

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Passport to Paris & Julius Shulman Wednesday, April 29, 2009 5 - 8 p.m. Gallery/Lobby

Book Signing

Featuring legendary photographer Julius Shulman “Prairie Chicken” House, Goff’s Thursday, April 30, 2009 Bavinger House, and Roloff’s State 5:30 - 7 p.m. Capitol Bank, among others. Gallery/Lobby Last September, with support from the University of Oklahoma’s Film Screening Event Bruce Goff Chair of Creative Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman Architecture, Mr. Shulman returned Comments from Julius Shulman before; Q&A with director Eric Bricker following to Oklahoma for the first time Thursday, April 30, 2009 in many years to lecture at the 7:30 p.m. University of Oklahoma School Noble Theater of Architecture and ArtSpace at Untitled. During his lecture, he Guided Architectural Tour observed that “Some of the great Visit some of the sites featured in the Oklahoma memories of my life in photography photographs of Julius Shulman I did in Oklahoma City and all Saturday, May 2, 2009 throughout the state. Oklahoma 1 - 3 p.m. had, and still has I’m sure, many geniuses who were able to create Cunningham House © J. Paul Getty Trust. Used with permission. Julius Shulman Photography Panel Discussion remarkable buildings. Look at Archive, Research Library at the Getty Research Institute. “Oklahoma Modernism Rediscovered” following the the wealth of architecture in screening of Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Oklahoma. There is a richness to the Shulman On opening weekend, the architecture of Oklahoma that the public hasn’t seen for years.” Sunday, May 3, 2009 Museum will host a series of Indeed, Shulman’s stunning Oklahoma photographs – and his tenacity in 2 p.m. related events, beginning on getting them published in national magazines – brought much-deserved Noble Theater Thursday, April 29, with 98attention to the Sooner State and helped launch the careers of Greene, Robert (See page 11 for more showtimes) year-old Shulman scheduled Alan Bowlby, Conner & Pojezny, to attend a book signing Murray-Jones-Murray, and other Last Call Friday and to discuss his career and area architects and firms. “I am Celebrate the closing of Passport to Paris & Julius blessed. I can see architecture in impressions of Oklahoma Shulman with cocktails, live music, guided tours, and architecture. There also will more! a way that even the architects be premiere screenings in the Friday, June 5, 2009 themselves don’t recognize Noble Theater throughout 5 - 8 p.m. their own buildings,” remarked Gallery/Lobby the weekend of Visual Mr. Shulman. “Our mission Acoustics: The Modernism of in this world is to convey Julius Shulman, Eric Bricker’s information about architecture critically acclaimed documentary film about Shulman’s amazing career and to the public, to make our lives his associations with some of the world’s most influential twentieth-century better for our children.” architects. After the film’s debut on Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Bricker will be on As he approaches the hand to lead a discussion of Shulman’s career and the making of the film. century mark, Julius Shulman In addition, on Saturday, May 2, the Museum will sponsor an architectural has himself become an icon in bus tour of several Oklahoma City-area buildings that Shulman photographed the architectural world, and this during the years he worked in Oklahoma. The weekend will culminate exhibit celebrates his incredible on Sunday with a panel discussion after the 2 p.m. film screening with life and career. In addition, it area architects and historians about the history of modern architecture in pays tribute to the visionary Oklahoma and the future of modernism. architects whose designs continue to be appreciated and admired today.

Founders Bank © J. Paul Getty Trust. Used with permission. Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Research Library at the Getty Research Institute.

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FROM THE CURATOR

Hardy S. George discusses twenty prints donated by Charles Tilghman and two

n addition to four earlier gifts, Charles Tilghman has generously given twenty prints by two French artists associated with important developments of the Renaissance and the romantic period. The gift consists of a series of twelve engravings, titled the Labors of the Months, by sixteenth-century artist Étienne Delaune (ca. 1519-1583) and eight lithographs

Étienne Delaune (French, ca. 1519-1583). February from the Labors of the Months series, ca. 1550s. Engraving, sheet/image: 6 7/8 x 9 ¼ in. (17.46 x 23.49 cm). Gift of Charles Tilghman, 2009.002

of horse subjects by the nineteenth-century artist Théodore Géricault (17911824). These works expand the Museum’s Tilghman collection to eighty-seven prints and a painting, given over the last thirty-five years. Étienne Delaune, a court goldsmith to King Francis I (1494-1547), must have been partly influenced by the detailed and precise manner and subject matter of late medieval Flemish and French illustrated prayer books. Delaune’s Labors of the Months (ca. late 1550s) brings to mind the Limbourg Brothers’ allegorical illuminations of the months of the year in the early fifteenth-century Book of Hours made for the Duke of Berry, who was brother to the king of France. Prayer books of this kind contained devotional prayers to be read in private at eight designated times during the day as well as marked saint’s days and regional, religious feast days. The subject matter in Delaune’s prints appears particularly close to the Limbourg Brother’s illustrations of the seasonal activities, both of the peasantry and the aristocracy, that relate to the months of the year. Additionally, as in the earlier Book of Hours, Delaune indicates the calendar months with the signs of the zodiac. For example, Delaune’s February is shown under the signs of Aquarius and Pisces. The detail and richness of Delaune’s twelve engravings transform the late medieval prayer book style with an Italianate mannerist treatment of the subject matter, often associated with the court of Francis I. The decorative borders of Delaune’s Labors of the Months relate to the elaborate and elegant framing, as well as the use of compressed mannerist space and suave elongated figures, found in the frescoes of Rosso Fiorentino and Francesco Primaticcio (Gallery of Francis I, Fontainebleau).

The eight Théodore Géricault lithographs, donated by Charles Tilghman, date from the second part of this romantic artist’s short career. As a young student in Rouen, his early interest in equestrian subjects, and the related settings of races and the circus, was expressed in his drawings and sketches. This attention given to equine subjects continued throughout his life, as seen in the eight lithographs completed shortly before his death, which include a depiction of horses in a stable with an attendant, a courier on horseback receiving a drink from a tavern attendant, and three prints of blacksmiths shoeing horses. Around 1808, he studied with Carle Vernet, a sought-after painter of sporting subjects. Later, Géricault studied with the Davidian history painter Pierre Guérin and was taught a more rigorous form of classical painting. One of his first important Salon paintings was the Charging Chasseur (Salon of 1812), a large and impressive equestrian portrait associated with the closing years of the Napoleonic wars. In 1816, Géricault left for Italy where he copied and studied the works of the Italian masters in Florence and Rome. His monumental painting Race of the Riderless Horses on the Corso, which was never completed, was one of the principal works associated with his three-year stay in Rome. In 1820, after the completion of his controversial Raft of the Medusa, he traveled to London where he displayed the large painting at a gallery near Piccadilly Circus. While in England, he sketched horse races and jockeys, as well as large draft horses pulling wagons full of coal and other merchandise. There, he was inspired by the landscapes of Constable and the animal subjects of George Stubbs, David Wilkie, James Ward, and others, and continued to develop his watercolor and lithographic technique. He made use of the sketches he completed in England for some of his most fascinating prints of horsemen, diligence drivers, draymen, and wagoners of various kinds. His naturalistic treatment of horses influenced both Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec. The drama of physical striving of both horses and their riders always held a special interest for Géricault, and in true romantic fashion, his early death was caused by a series of reckless riding accidents.

Théodore Géricault (French, 1791-1824). Shoeing a Horse, ca. 18201824. Lithograph, sheet: 15 x 20 ¾ in. (38.1 x 52.71 cm); image: 11 x 14 ¼ in. (27.94 x 36.19 cm). Gift of Charles Tilghman, 2009.015

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purchases honoring Carolyn A. Hill

he Museum has acquired two exceptional companion paintings portraying Venice by the early nineteenth-century Italian painter Ippolito Caffi (1809-1866). Funds for the acquisition were provided by an Inasmuch Foundation grant to honor Carolyn A. Hill, who recently stepped down as the Museum’s director of fourteen years. The paintings are View of Santa Maria della Salute from the Ponte dell’Accademia, Venice and View of the Basin of San Marco, Venice and beginning in March, will be on display in the Museum’s European Gallery, located on the second floor. A recent, major retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work, titled Caffi, Luci del Mediterraneo (2005 Belluno, 2006 Rome and St. Petersburg), indicates increasing attention is being given to Caffi. In past studies of romantic art, a great deal of emphasis was placed on artists and developments associated with France, England, and Germany; Italian art of this period was largely overlooked. This is most likely the reason there are very few works by Caffi in collections outside of Italy, where the majority is located in the Ca’ Pesaro Museum in Venice. At the age of eighteen, Caffi settled in Venice, where he studied Ippolito Caffi (Italian, 1809-1866). View of Santa Maria della Salute from the Ponte dell’Accademia, Venice, ca. 1845. Oil on perspective, life drawing, and landscape at the Academy. In his canvas, 15 x 18 ½ in. (38.1 x 46.99 cm). Purchase with funds provided by an Inasmuch Foundation grant in honor of Carolyn A. Hill, 2009.021 mature paintings, portraying topographical views of Venice, Rome, and Istanbul, he adeptly combined the skills gained from his studies, Why then did Caffi choose to do his work in Rome rather than Venice? At as well as his knowledge of Canaletto’s classic eighteenth-century views the end of the Napoleonic Wars, France withdrew from Rome, Venice, and of Venice. His training in Venice and the influence of the city’s magnificent the north of Italy, but at the Congress of Vienna, held at the end of the war, architecture and picturesque settings served him throughout his career. He Austria regained control of the Tirol and Salzburg and was awarded LombardyVenetia in Italy. Venice was once again under foreign domination. In addition, it was only natural for a young artist and patriot, particularly a painter of topographical views and landscapes, to choose Rome as a place to launch his career. With the end of the war, the Eternal City was once again the art center of Europe. English, German, and Scandinavian artists travelled there to work in studios, study Greco-Roman sculpture and High Renaissance painting in the Vatican and in the great Roman palaces, as well as to make sketches of the city’s ancient remains, its Renaissance and baroque architecture, and the surrounding picturesque scenery of the Sabine hills and the Campagna. In Rome, Caffi worked in the established manner of the time, completing in the studio, paintings of both Rome and Venice, based on precise pencil sketches. He achieved his first great success with these view paintings when he took part in an exhibition on the Piazza del Popolo in Rome in 1844. The two companion pieces, View of Santa Maria della Salute from the Ponte dell’Accademia, Venice and View of the Basin of San Marco, Venice, are probably based on sketches Caffi made on his 1837 or 1838 visit to Venice. They display Caffi’s ability to draw on the tradition of the eighteenth-century Venetian view painters and at the same time merge the island city’s great past with the less opulent present. These paintings are part of a series of views of Venice Ippolito Caffi (Italian, 1809-1866). View of the Basin of San Marco, Venice, ca. 1845. Oil on canvas, 15 x 18 ½ and Rome that reportedly were in an industrialist’s villa on Lake Como “for in. (38.1 x 46.99 cm). Purchase with funds provided by an Inasmuch Foundation grant in honor of Carolyn A. the past 150 years.” All are approximately the same size and were probably Hill, 2009.022 commissioned about the same time. These Venice paintings are portrayed left for Rome in 1832 and in the following year, like Canaletto and the great in delicate colors with meticulous details and amazing light effects that Venetian view painters of the eighteenth century, he painted scenery for a convey the restless emotions of a romantic, as well as an underlying sense of theatre in Rome. classical order. They are constructed in accordance with a rigorous “vedutisti” Caffi revisited Venice in 1837 then returned to Rome and completed a series manner and perpetuate the Canaletto tradition. There is also the same sense of views undoubtedly based on sketches made there. While on a another of classical balance and harmony that goes back to Claude Lorraine’s carefully trip to Venice in 1838, Caffi, like Canaletto and other view painters, known composed harbor and Roman Campagna subjects. Caffi’s two views of Venice as “vedutisti,” who portrayed visiting dignitaries, documented the festivities will hang perfectly in the gallery with the paintings of an Italianate landscape surrounding the visit of the Emperor of Austria and completed a painting, and a harbor scene by his Claudian predecessors Robert Freebairn and Charles acquired by the Emperor, of the royal regatta entering the city (I’Ingresso a François Grenier de Lacroix. Venezia e la Regata).

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THURSDAY

ROOF TERRACE OPENS!

SATURDAY

SCHOOL • Homeschool Art Appreciation, 1-2:30p FILM • Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes, 5:30 & 8p

EARTH DAY

TUESDAY

• Glassblowing - Level 2, 10a-3p

DROP-IN ART • Bug Jewels, 1-4p FILM • New Jewish Cinema: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, 5:30 & 8p

SUNDAY

Thursday, March 5, 7:30 p.m.; Fri. – Sat., March 6 – 7, 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m.; Sunday, March 8, 2 p.m.

Milk

Tired of hiding from himself, Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) abandons his high-paying Wall Street job to come out of the closet and move to San Francisco’s Castro district with his long-term lover, Scott Smith (James Franco). There, his camera shop quickly becomes a social hub of tolerance for many in the colorful Castro community who feel they have no place else to gather, disenfranchised by the era’s narrowmindedness. Seeing power in numbers, Harvey begins to speak for this silent majority - taking on bigoted businesses, unions, and politicians. Small victories lead to bigger ones, and Harvey’s bravery in the face of daily threats to his life and livelihood inspire others to speak up as well. Director: Gus Van Sant 2008 USA 128min. R 35mm

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Special Appearance by OKC Thunder guard Earl Watson Thursday night Thursday, March 19, 7:30 p.m.; Fri. – Sat., March 20 – 21, 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m.; Sunday, March 22, 2 p.m.

Crips and Bloods: Made in America

Renowned documentarian Stacy Peralta (Dogtown and Z-Boys, Riding Giants) examines the story of South Los Angeles and the gangs that inhabit it. Blending gripping archival footage and photos with in-depth interviews of current and former gang members, educators, historians, family members, and experts, Peralta brings his trademark, dynamic, visual style and story-telling ability to this often-ignored chapter of America’s history. Hard-hitting, yet ultimately hopeful, the film not only documents the emergence of the Bloods and the Crips and their growth beyond the borders of South Central, but also offers insight as to how this ongoing tragedy might be resolved. Produced by NBA superstar Baron Davis and narrated by Academy Award winning actor Forest Whitaker. Director: Stacy Peralta 2008 USA 93min. NR HDdigital Copresented BY

Thursday, March 12, 7:30 p.m.; Fri. – Sat., March 13 – 14, 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m.; Sunday, March 15, 2 p.m.

Been Rich All My Life

Been Rich All My Life follows the unlikeliest troupe of tap dancers. They are the “Silver Belles,” five former showgirls now aged 84-96, performing to standing ovations, as sassy as they ever were. They met during Harlem’s 1930s heyday, dancing in the chorus lines at the Apollo Theater, the Cotton Club, Small’s Paradise, and Connie’s Inn, performing with legendary band leaders like Cab Calloway, Jimmie Lunceford, and Duke Ellington. When the big band era ended, they all went into other work - but in 1985 they put their shoes back on and have been dancing together again for the last twenty years. They may not kick as high, but they are hip-swaying, sharp, and show-biz savvy. Director: Heather Lyn MacDonald 2005 USA 81min. NR HDdigital

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Thursday, March 26, 7:30 pm; Fri. – Sat., March 27 – 28, 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m.; Sunday, March 29, 2 p.m.; Thursday, April 2, 7:30 p.m.; Friday – Saturday, April 3 – 4, 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m.; Sunday, April 5, 2 p.m.

Wendy and Lucy

Wendy Carroll (Michelle Williams) is driving to Ketchikan, Alaska, in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the Northwestern Fish cannery and the start of a new life with her dog, Lucy. When her car breaks down in Oregon, however, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic decisions, with far-ranging repercussions for herself and Lucy. Wendy and Lucy addresses issues of sympathy and generosity at the edges of American life, revealing the limits and depths of people’s duty to each other in tough times. Director: Kelly Reichardt 2008 USA 80min. R 35mm Thursday, April 9, 7:30 p.m. Friday – Saturday, April 10 – 11, 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m.; Sunday, April 12, 2 p.m.

Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes

This independent, feature-length documentary goes behind the scenes at A Prairie Home Companion and inside the imagination of the man who created it. Garrison Keillor takes his skits and jokes, music and monologues across the country in this free form, intimate look at the private man in the public spotlight. Today, there is no one like him. His take on America is both pungent and poignant. In the best tradition of Will Rogers and Mark Twain, Keillor mixes story telling and humor to give us a light hearted but deeply felt reflection of ourselves. Director: Peter Rosen 2008 USA 86min. NR HDdigital

Director Heather Lyn MacDonald in Person on Saturday and Sunday!

TWO WEEK EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT!

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Thursday, April 16, 7:30 p.m. Friday – Saturday, April 17 – 18, 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m.; Sunday, April 19, 2 p.m.

New Jewish Cinema

Acclaimed Kazakh documentarian Sergey Dvortsevoy’s first narrative feature is a gorgeous mélange of tender comedy, ethnographic drama, and wildlife extravaganza. Following his Russian naval service, young dreamer Asa returns to his sister’s nomadic brood on the desolate Hunger Steppe to begin a hardscrabble career as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa must win the hand of the only eligible bachelorette for miles—his alluringly mysterious neighbor Tulpan. Accompanied by his girlie magreading sidekick Boni, Asa will stop at nothing to prove he is a worthy husband and herder. The film’s gentle humor and stunning photography transport audiences to this singular, harshly beautiful region and its rapidly vanishing way of life. In Kazakh and Russian with English subtitles. Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Director: Sergey Dvortsevoy 2008 Kazakhstan/Germany/Poland/Russia/ Switzerland 100min. NR 35mm

Thursday, April 23, 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 24, 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m.;

Tulpan

Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh

Narrated by Joan Allen, Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modernday Joan of Arc. With unprecedented access to the Senesh family archive, and through interviews, eyewitness accounts, and the prolific writings of Hannah and Catherine Senesh, Blessed Is the Match recreates Hannah’s mission and imprisonment. The film explores Hannah’s childhood against the backdrop of significant historical events, resulting in a rich portrait with several interlocking strands. Director: Roberta Grossman 2008 USA 86min. NR HDdigital

Thursday night appearance by Julius Shulman and Eric Bricker

Saturday, April 25 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m.; Sunday, April 26, 2 p.m.

Thursday, April 30, 7:30 p.m. Friday – Saturday, May 1 – 2, 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m.; Sunday, May 3, 2 p.m.

Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, Visual Acoustics explores the monumental career of 98-year-old architectural photographer Julius Shulman. Populating his photos with human models and striking landscapes, Shulman combined the organic with the synthetic, melding nature with revolutionary urban design. The resulting images helped to shape the careers of some of the greatest architects of the twentieth century, with Shulman documenting the work of Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner, and many others. Taking its aesthetic cues from Shulman’s own sensual and nuanced photography, the film’s narrative is built from a blend of Shulman’s own images as well as in depth interviews with architect Frank Gehry, designer Tom Ford, artist Ed Ruscha, actress Kelly Lynch, and writer Mitch Glazer, publisher Benedikt Taschen, cinematographer Dante Spinotti, and a host of others. Director: Eric Bricker 2009 USA 90min. NR HDdigital

Based on the best-selling novel by John Boyne, the film is a powerful, fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred, and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. Through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of a Nazi commandant, and Shmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined. Director: Mark Herman 2008 GB/USA 94min. PG-13 35mm

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Museum School

Museum School classes and workshops fill quickly. The following offerings still had spots available at the time this publication was printed. For descriptions or a complete listing of classes and workshops, visit www.okcmoa.com/ education/museumschool. Pre-registration is required. To register by phone, call (405) 236-3100, ext. 213.

CHILDREN’S CLASSES

GLASSBLOWING – LEVEL 1 Wednesdays, March 25-April 29, 6-9 pm (6 classes) Ability level: Novice/Beginner $244 members/ $298 nonmembers (materials provided)

THINGS THAT GO! Saturday, January 10, 10-10:45 am

Ages 14-adult

PASTEL PORTRAITS Saturday, April 18, 1-4 pm Ability level: All levels $20 members/ $25 nonmembers (materials provided) GLASSBLOWING – LEVEL 2 Saturdays, April 18-May 16, 10 am-3 pm (5 classes) Ability level: Intermediate/Advanced $340 members/ $415 nonmembers (materials provided)

Photo by Libbey Hart

ADULT CLASSES

Ages 15-36 months (with parent) $7 members/$9 nonmembers (materials provided)

LUMPY, BUMPY ART Saturday, March 21, 10-10:45 am COUNTING COLORS Saturday, April 4, 10-10:45 am COUNTING COLORS Saturday, April 4, 11-11:45 am HEAD AND SHOULDERS, KNEES AND TOES Saturday, April 18, 10-10:45 am HEAD AND SHOULDERS, KNEES AND TOES Saturday, April 18, 11-11:45 am

UNDERSTANDING ART IN OKC (HUM 2003-M01) Thursdays, March 26-May 14, 5:30-8:30 pm (8 classes) Cosponsored by the Downtown College Consortium and Oklahoma City Community College Ability level: All levels Fee (for Oklahoma Residents): $306 (3 credit hours) Maximum enrollment is 25 students. Carolyn (Caroline) Farris Students will gain new insight into various methods of visual analysis and criticism by viewing and discussing art at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art and by participating in assigned readings, writing, and field trips. The course will also utilize famous art quotes to facilitate inquiry into the visual aesthetics and the development of personal artistic perception and appreciation. Classes meet at the Museum, with visits to the Festival of the Arts and other local art venues. Students may audit credit courses for no grade or credit. Regular credit tuition and fees still apply. A reduced class fee is available to students 65 and older who audit a course. Special incentives are available to Museum members. For more information or to enroll, call (405) 232-3382, or register online at www.downtowncollege.com.

CHILDREN’S CLASSES

ST. PATTY PRINTING Thursday, March 12, 10-11 am

PORTRAIT PAINTING Sunday, March 1, 2-4 pm

MINI MONA LISA Wednesday, April 15, 4-5 pm

HANDBUILT POTTERY Sunday, March 22, 2-4 pm

CHILDREN’S CLASSES

BASICS OF PRINTMAKING Sunday, March 29, 2-4 pm

Ages 3-5 (with parent) $7.50 members/$10 nonmembers (materials provided)

Ages 6-9 $10 members/$15 nonmembers (materials provided) PRINTMAKING Saturday, March 14, 10 am-noon ROMARE BEARDEN COLLAGES Saturday, March 28, 10 am-noon

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CREATIVE COLLAGE Sunday, April 5, 2-4 pm KITE WEATHER Sunday, April 26, 2-4 pm

FOR HOMESCHOOLERS

Ages 6-13 $45 members/$55 nonmembers (materials provided)

HANDBUILT POTTERY Sunday, March 29, 2-4 pm FAITH RINGGOLD STORY QUILTS Saturday, April 4, 10 am-noon LET’S GO FLY A KITE! Saturday, April 11, 10 am-noon

HOMESCHOOL ART APPRECIATION Fridays, March 27-May 1, 1-2:30 pm (6 classes)

JEWELRY-MAKING Saturday, April 25, 10 am-noon

Join our guest artists in the Education Center every Saturday from 1 to 4 pm as they help families to create extraordinary works of art inspired by the Museum’s collection, exhibitions, and special occasions throughout the year. No advance registration is required for you and your children to drop in and make and take a unique creation home with you! Free with paid Museum admission. MARCH 7 14 21 28

Ages 10-13 $10 members/$15 nonmembers (materials provided)

Film

– ERIN OLDFIELD Leprechaun Pots Green Weaving Spring Reliefs Mini Fabric Quilts

APRIL – BRYAN DAHLVANG 4 Junk Art 11 Magnificent Masks 18 Potato Prints 25 Bug Jewels

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LECTURE “The Transatlantic Connection: New Negro Artists in Paris Between the Wars”

LAST CALL FRIDAY Harlem Renaissance Friday, April 17, 2009 5 - 8 p.m.

Join us in celebrating the closing weekend of Harlem Renaissance! Bring your friends to enjoy a cocktail and live music. Take a guided tour of the special exhibition with Museum curators and docents and spark your creativity with hands-on art, inspired by the artists of the Harlem Renaissance period and its legacy. Also included will be fun and informative wine tastings and coffee seminars led by Starbucks™ coffee masters. Exciting door prizes will be given away, and other fun surprises are being planned, so be sure not to miss this event! Admission is free for members and $12 for nonmember adults. Students and seniors are $10. Cash bar. Use your Allied Arts OKCity Card and receive two-for-one admission!

EDUCATION OUTREACH On Saturday, February 7, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art presented a community outreach program at Southern Oaks Library, 6900 S. Walker, in conjunction with the Harlem Renaissance exhibition. Seventeen people, ranging from age 5 through adult, attended the program which was facilitated by teaching artist Suzanne Thomas. Participants listened to music of the Harlem Renaissance period as they created photo-collaged artworks inspired by artist Romare Bearden. Bring your family and join the Museum for additional Harlem Renaissance programs taking place at your local library this March! Artist Suzanne Thomas will lead a printmaking activity at the Midwest City library, 8143 E Reno, on Friday, March 20, from 1-2 p.m. This program will repeat on Saturday, March 28, from 2-3 p.m. at the Warr Acres library, 5901 NW 63. Artist Nathan Lee will lead an activity of African-inspired oil pastel drawings at the Downtown library, 300 Park Avenue, on Saturday, March 28, from 1-2 p.m. The Harlem Renaissance exhibition at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, and its related programming, are supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Education outreach activities to the branch libraries are cosponsored by the Metropolitan Library System. For more details, visit www.metrolibrary.org.

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Theresa Leininger-Miller, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati Wednesday, March 25, 2009 Noble Theater, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Join Dr. Theresa Leininger-Miller as she discusses European influences on African American artists during the Harlem Renaissance in her lecture, “The Transatlantic Connection: New Negro Artists in Paris Between the Wars.” “This richly illustrated, digital presentation traces the patterns of education, exhibition, and experiences of African American artists in France in the 1920s and 1930s,” said Leininger Miller. “We’ll examine the style and content of the award-winning, diverse work produced abroad by sculptors Augusta Savage and Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, and painters Palmer Hayden, Hale Woodruff, Archibald Motley, Jr., Albert Alexander Smith, Aaron Douglas, and William Henry Johnson in relation to issues of race, patronage, modern art, and the Harlem Renaissance.” Dr. Theresa Leininger-Miller is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Cincinnati. She earned her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in the History of Art from Yale University, and a B.A. in English and History, with a peace studies concentration, from Xavier University in Cincinnati. Her publications include New Negro Artists in Paris: African American Painters and Sculptors in the City of Light, 1922-1934 (Rutgers, 2001) and chapters in the anthologies The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris Between the Wars (Rutgers, 2003) and Out of Context: American Artists Abroad (Praeger, 2004). Admission for special exhibition lectures is $10 for Museum members and $15 for nonmembers. Advance tickets go on sale Sunday, March 1, 2009, and may be purchased by calling (405) 278-8237 or at the Admissions Desk during normal business hours.

NEW INTERACTIVE GAMES FOR HARLEM The Museum launched new interactive games to complement the Harlem Renaissance exhibition. Designed for children, the games have proven fun and challenging even for adults! Three activities are available, including “Find It,” which invites you to find a missing detail from a work of art; “Matching,” which allows you to uncover matching pairs of artworks; and “What’s Missing,” which challenges you to find five details that are different in two images of the same work. All pieces are represented in the exhibition. Museum interactive stations are funded in part by a Kerr Foundation challenge grant and matching funds provided by the Meinders Foundation and the Clements Foods Foundation.

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Visitor Comments

From the Harlem Renaissance exhibition, on view through April 19, 2009.

Harlem Renaissance Members’ Preview

Loved the Harlem exhibit. Great Art. Never did see Bessie Smith before singing and all the other great things. These are a bunch of great artists and have made a great contribution to the black American culture. Margo Eureka Springs, AR

Lynne Parrish, Erin Kozakiewicz, Paul Cunningham, and Party Chair Robin Cunningham at the Omelette Party held on February 7 at the Bricktown Events Center. More than $60,000 was raised!

Café Do Brasil’s Ana Davis served chorizo with eggs. Photo by the Oklahoma Gazette.

The Harlem Renaissance was amazing. My friend and I did not expect the exhibit to be so enthralling and fun. We enjoyed the entire thing and were disappointed when we realized we had reached the end. Rachel Norman, OK

Shannon Fitzgerald and Museum Director Glen Gentele with Tina Beal and Museum Trustee and Chairman-elect Elby Beal.

This was an unforgettable experience and a fine reminder of my great ancestral heritage! THANK YOU for taking the time and efforts to celebrate African history in such a grand way! Nicole D. Lawson-McClish Fort Worth, TX This Harlem Renaissance experience was wonderful and exciting. Hope to tell all of my friends and family about it. It really opened my eyes to a lot of history during this time period. Thank you. Pilar T. Clark Dallas, TX

Monique Bruner, BK Bruner, Wilma Miles, Jerry Miles, and Dr. Claudett Goss enjoy the preview.

Loved it! This exhibit is very inviting, educational & entertaining. I will be back to see it again!!! Ayesha K. Factory Guthrie, OK

Hilarie Blaney, Cindy Batt, and Sarah Sears enjoy the Omelette Party festivities.

What a marvelous exhibit you have created by thoughtfully gathering the visual, literary, film, and plastic arts together for true illumination of a moment in time -- African-American’s joy of life from the 1920s to 1940s! Thank you. My students from Oklahoma Christian University are reading the literary works and placing them into a broader aesthetic and philosophical context thanks to the OKCMOA. Bravo. Scott LaMascus Edmond It is a wonderful exhibit of Harlem Renaissance visual art. The history spoken was great. I would have loved to also see more writings, i.e., Zora Neale Hurston - and of course, a picture of her. Great to see A’lelia Walker, so often not included. Learned that Picasso and Matisse were alive during that time period - fascinating. Loved seeing the Aaron Douglas paintings up close - they are wonderful and give a whole different perception than the book. Thank you so much for this wonderful exhibit. Sheila Arnold Hampton, VA

The Langston University Jazz Ensemble performed for the members.

Karee and Dustun Payett look at the book The New Negro.

A crowd of close to 900 dances to the sounds of Banana Seat. Photo by Eckie Prater.

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Roof Terrace to re-open April 30 The Roof Terrace will re-open for Cocktails on the Skyline Thursday, April 30 and will remain open through October 2009. Seasonal hours are 5 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Thursday and Friday, with last call at 10:15 p.m. Galleries close at 9 p.m. Jazz music returns with a line-up from last year’s most popular bands, including Bruce Benson, the Heather Nelson Trio, and Kati Lee and the Guitar Bums. More bands to be announced. Cost to access the Roof Terrace is included in Museum admission, which is free for members, $12 adults, and $10 seniors and students. Mixed drinks will be available at the bar by the elevators on the Penthouse level, and beer will be sold from the roof-top bar. To sign up to receive the Roof Terrace Thursday 3 p.m. Alert, e-mail lspears@ okcmoa.com. Soft drink sponsor of Cocktails on the Skyline

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Thunder teammates Jeff Green and Chucky Atkins served as celebrity tour guides for fifth and sixth grade boys from Marcus Garvey Leadership Charter School on opening day of Harlem Renaissance. The Thunder players were on hand to share some art appreciation and black history with these young students. Associate Curator of Education Amy Young led the tour. During the exhibition, more than 2,000 students will visit the Museum, thanks to the Yellow Bus Brigade program which provides grants to Oklahoma schools for bussing and admission.

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In recognition of Carolyn Hill’s fourteen years of professional leadership and connoisseurship, in matters of exhibition and presentation, and the development of the Museum’s permanent collection through gifts and purchases, the Inasmuch Foundation has provided funds to purchase two works by Italian artist Ippolito Caffi. Additionally, the Museum’s board of trustees established the Carolyn A. Hill Collections Endowment as a lasting, living tribute to her dedication to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Through gifts, grants, and pledges, this endowment has attracted $281,215. To date, the following donors have recognized Carolyn achievements through their support of this endowment: Roger and Ann Bishop G. T. and Elizabeth Blankenship Jordan and Priscilla Braun John and Nancy Cheek Cleary Foundation Nancy Coats Bert and Teresa Cooper Jack and Anita Dahlgren Peter and Karen Delaney Betsy Hyde Kirkpatrick Family Fund Rodney and Lesa Lee Love’s Travel Stops James Fox Virginia Fox

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