Art and Supper

Another wonderful evening, November 16, of artwork and dinner at The Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The exhibit was of the German born, American artist Bierstadt from the mid 1800’s as he recorded the American West, lots of bison, “Albert Bierstadt Witness to a Changing West”.  Some of the works belong to The Gilcrease who own a large and varied collection of American Western art.  To add perspective to his work they  showed George Catlin paintings that would pre-date Bierstadt and William Jacob Hays who started exhibiting slightly after Bierstadt.  The emphasis was on the affect of western migration on the bison of the Great Plains and therefore native American culture.  Decimation of the native Americans and the bison was a terrible loss, fortunately both were stopped before being totally irreversible.

Dinner was paired with wines from Ancien Wines a California winery with worries of their own with the current wildfires.

We ended up at a table of eight from varied background and interests and had such delightful conversations to go with our dinner.

If you live in Tulsa, or are visiting before February 10, 2019, I encourage you to stop in at the Gilcrease and enjoy the Bierstadt exhibit.  And have lunch at the museum restaurant.  They are both worth the time.   And the rest of museum isn’t ‘shabby’ either.*

* The Gilcrease is one of two world class museums in Tulsa, so that was tongue-in-cheek.