Objects of Devotion on a Mission in Oklahoma
ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By tahlib
OKLAHOMA---Time is running out to view the Mabee-Gerrer Museum's of Art's exhibiton of religious art entitled, "Objects of Devotion." The museum, which is located on the campus of St. Gregory's University in Shawnee, Oklahoma was founded in 1919. The theme is Mission Art in the Americas: 1650-1950 through June 13, 2010. Named after Father Gregory Gerrer, a Benedictine monk of considerable artistic talent the museum is one of the oldest museums in Oklahoma. During Father Gerrer's travels to Europe, Africa and South America, he collected objects of artistic and ethnological value. The current exhibition examines 300 years of Spanish friars in New Mexico importing religious sculptures and paintings from Europe and Mexico to adorn newly built mission churches. By the second half of the eighteenth century, several New Mexican artists were transforming native woods and other materials into bultos, retablos, hide paintings and more in a local version of the Baroque style. The exhibition runs through June 13, 2010.
By tahlib
OKLAHOMA---Time is running out to view the Mabee-Gerrer Museum's of Art's exhibiton of religious art entitled, "Objects of Devotion." The museum, which is located on the campus of St. Gregory's University in Shawnee, Oklahoma was founded in 1919. The theme is Mission Art in the Americas: 1650-1950 through June 13, 2010. Named after Father Gregory Gerrer, a Benedictine monk of considerable artistic talent the museum is one of the oldest museums in Oklahoma. During Father Gerrer's travels to Europe, Africa and South America, he collected objects of artistic and ethnological value. The current exhibition examines 300 years of Spanish friars in New Mexico importing religious sculptures and paintings from Europe and Mexico to adorn newly built mission churches. By the second half of the eighteenth century, several New Mexican artists were transforming native woods and other materials into bultos, retablos, hide paintings and more in a local version of the Baroque style. The exhibition runs through June 13, 2010.
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