Black Artists and Black History

Juan Correa. Agonia de San Francisco Javier, mid 17th cent. – early 18th cent.

Black Cowboys. The Black Cowboys Hollywood Tried to Hide. American Experience, Public Broadcasting System.

Black Towns in Oklahoma. Black Towns Then … Black Towns Now. Coltrane Group, Oklahoma Historical Society, 2015. 

Buffalo Soldiers. Buffalo Soldiers:  The African Americans Who Won the West. History at Home, The History Channel, 2020.

Eddie Faye Gates Collection at Gilcrease includes photographs by Black photographers, ephemera and oral histories relating to African American history in Tulsa

Emancipation Proclamation. Gilcrease’s Emancipation Proclamation. Gilcrease Museum, 2019

Goodwin, Richard La Barre. The Cobbler. Gilcrease Museum, 2016. University of Tulsa Assistant Professor Kirsten Olds explains the importance of “The Cobbler” in the collection at Gilcrease Museum.

Greenwood Race Massacre. Tulsa 1921: An American Tragedy. CBS News

Juan Correa, prominent Spanish Colonial painter and Afro-Mexican artist, biography

Lawrence, Jacob. Title: Jacob Lawrence: an intimate Portrait, 1993. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. [23:37]

Wiley, Kehinde. Title: Kehinde Wiley: Artist’s Lecture. OKC Museum of Art