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Treasures of Gilcrease: Selections from the Permanent Collection

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The Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma houses one of the best, if not the pre-iminent, collections of Western American art in the world. Of the half million or so items in the museum, some 200 have selected by the museum's curators for photographing and presentation in this large format book.

Included are paintings by Catlin, Russell, Moran, and Remington. The front cover of the book is Moran's "Tower Falls" perhaps the single thing that caused the Congress to set aside Yellowstone National Park.

While the subject of the American West may be thought of by some as not suitable for serious work, some of the painting, such as the night time scene of the Pony Express (Frank Tenney Johnson) are of as high a technical quality as can be found anywhere.

A mere book is not the same as visiting the museum, but is about as close as most of us can come.

Beautiful Book!

This is a great guide to the Gilcrease collection in Tulsa, OK. After visiting the museum I wanted more and this book filled the bill. It contains a nice collection of pictures of the key pieces, both paintings and sculptures, in the museum as selected by the curators and also contains pictures and postcards from the archives which are not on display all the time. This book adds completion to my visit to this wonderful art collection. This is a nicely produced book with complete descriptions of the pieces presented.