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The Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA) presents a dynamic range of exhibitions organized from prestigious museums and collections throughout the world. The Museum’s own diverse collection features highlights from North America, Europe, and Asia, with particular strengths in American art and postwar abstraction. The permanent collection also boasts one of the world’s largest public collections of Dale Chihuly glass, a major collection of photography by Brett Weston, and the definitive museum collection of works by the Washington Color painter Paul Reed. The Museum’s renowned Samuel Roberts Noble Theater screens the finest international, independent, documentary, and classic films. Museum amenities include the Museum Store and the Roof Terrace. The Oklahoma City Museum of Art is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums and is a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors. The Museum serves over 125,000 visitors annually from all fifty states and thirty foreign countries.

In 2002, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art inaugurated the Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center with an exhibition of glass and drawings by Dale Chihuly, titled Dale Chihuly: An Inaugural Exhibition (March 16–August 4, 2002). Bolstered by enormous public support, the Museum purchased the exhibition in June of 2004, which included works from Chihuly’s best-known series, in addition to drawings, and was anchored by the 55-foot Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick Memorial Tower in the Museum’s atrium. Since then, the collection has grown to include gifts to the Museum by the artist. Today, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art is home to one of the largest collections of Chihuly glass in the world.

Dale Chihuly’s well-grounded academic & practical background includes a B.A. in interior design from the University of Washington, an M.S. in sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.F.A. in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design, & honorary doctorates from the University of Puget Sound & the Rhode Island School of Design. He also was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant for work in glass and studied at Italy’s prestigious Venini glass factory on a Fulbright Fellowship.

Chihuly’s work is included in over 200 museum collections, including the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, and he has received world renown for his extensive glass series, international projects, and large architectural installations such as the Museum’s Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick Memorial Tower. The Museum’s collection represents over three decades of Chihuly’s finest work and heralds this brilliant luminist as the most important artist working in glass since Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Collections American Art The Museum’s collection of American art includes paintings and sculptures by artists from the colonial era through 1960. Highlights include works by Hans Hofmann, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Charles Willson Peale. The collection includes twenty-eight works donated by the Works Progress Administration in 1942. This gift formed the core collection of the Oklahoma Art Center, the predecessor of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. The American Art collection includes numerous examples by artists who were active in Oklahoma, such as Oscar Brousse Jacobson, Doel Reed, Nellie Shepherd, and Nan Sheets. Also represented are later examples by artists such as Isabel Bishop, Jack Levine, and Moses Soyer, who came to prominence during the interwar decades.

Photography The Museum’s collection of photography consists primarily of works by twentieth-century American photographers. Highlights include works by Elliott Erwitt, Imogen Cunningham, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Garry Winogrand. The collection also contains over three hundred photographs by Brett Weston, donated by the Christian Keesee Collection.

European Art The Museum’s collection of European art consists of examples from the Baroque-era through the early twentieth century. Highlights of the European art collection include English genre painting of the nineteenth-century as well as examples of French post-impressionistic painting from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Key artists in the European art collection are Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Gustave Courbet, André Derain, Francis Hayman, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Post-War & Contemporary Art The Museum’s collection of post-war and contemporary art includes paintings and sculptures created from 1945 to the present. Highlights include works by Alexander Calder, Don Eddy, Eric Fischl, Ellsworth Kelly, Alfonso Ossorio, and Philip Pearlstein. Key collections include the Washington Gallery of Modern Art Collection, the Westheimer Family Collection, and The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States.

Drawings & Prints The Museum’s collection of drawings and prints includes works on paper from the sixteenth century to the present. The collection consists predominantly of works by 20th-century American artists.

History The Oklahoma City Museum of Art’s roots trace to early statehood efforts of the Oklahoma Art League and Art Renaissance Club, organizations concerned with art education for a young city. Over time, more formal efforts began with a Works Progress Administration (WPA) Experimental Gallery, which was open to the public. The Museum transitioned from a federally funded gallery to a private institution when it was incorporated on May 18, 1945.

The Museum today is the synthesis of two predecessors, the Oklahoma Art Center, itself an outgrowth of the WPA Experimental Gallery, and the Oklahoma Museum of Art. Although both institutions were committed to collecting, public programs, and exhibitions, a depressed economy following the downturn in the energy industry during the 1980s challenged the city’s ability to support two institutions and led to a merger of the two museums in 1989.

Led by a $14.5 million capital grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation and by an extraordinary outpouring of support from more the 500 foundations, corporations, and individual donors, the $40 million goal was reached to build and endow the new museum, entirely with private funds. In March of 2002, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center, opened to critical acclaim. The Museum now attracts over 125,000 visitors each year with its permanent collection, cycle of temporary exhibitions, inventive education opportunities, international film program, and Museum Store.

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The current page does not include details about the Museum's collection or about its history, information that is included for most museums on the platform. Adding this information will allow users to further research artists, art history, and art movements on Wikipedia through OKCMOA's collection information.

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68.15.117.220 (talk) 21:35, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Not done for now: This seems to have quite a bit of puffery, does not have inline citations (like the template says, use the "Cite" button – you may find using the visual editor in a sandbox easier, though you might need to make an account to get your own sandbox). Please be careful to follow the neutral point of view policy and add inline citations, then resubmit. Thank you. — Lauritz Thomsen (talk) 16:26, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]