Sooners in the Land of Enchantment: 

Oklahoma Artists and New Mexico

Oct 10. 2009 – Jan 3, 2010
(Opening reception: Friday, October 9; 7-9 pm)

This exhibition examines the important role Oklahoma artists played in the development of the artists’ colonies in New Mexico. Artists such as Oscar Jacobson, Nan Sheets, and the painters and dancers that eventually became known as the Kiowa Five began visiting the “Land of Enchantment” in the early decades of the twentieth century, forming important relationships with both Native and Euro-American artists who resided there permanently. In the post-World War II period, other Oklahomans such as T. C. Cannon, Allan Houser, Woody Crumbo, and Doel Reed made New Mexico their home and produced engaging bodies of work that have become closely identified with New Mexican art history. To this end, the exhibition will not only include the works of Oklahoma artists but the prominent New Mexican artists with whom they associated, such as Ernest Blumenschein, Victor Higgins, Maria Martinez and Bert Phillips. A guest lecture by Eugene B. Adkins curator Mark White will accompany this exhibition’s opening Oct. 9 at 6 pm.

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