Exhibitions

Harlem Renaissance

At the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, explores the developments that occurred in African American art during the 1920s and 1930s. The exhibition examines the diversity of influences upon the period--from European modernism, to African art, to music, and cultural history --and its lasting influence, as witnessed in later depictions of the Harlem Renaissance and Jazz Age.


Catherine Moton Patterson (Prentice Herman Polk) 1936

Woman playing the harp in an evening gown. View


George Washington Carver demonstrates his peanut oil-based paint (that he developed). (Prentice Herman Polk) ca 1927

Image of botantical researcher and agronomy educator George Washington Carver painting a still-life View


Little Boy (Prentice Herman Polk) 1927

Image of seated boy on staircase View


Noble Sissle (Prentice Herman Polk) 1937

Portrait of jazz composer/lyricist/bandleader/playwright Noble Sissle View