Category Archives: artwork

Bloomsday Irish Pub Crawl and Special Collections Exhibit

Posted on 2014 June 13 by James Tindle

Bloomsday is just around the corner! This Monday, June 16th, the festivities will kick off in earnest with an authentic Irish pub crawl from 6:30 to 10:00 pm in the area of Downtown Tulsa surrounding the Guthrie Green. While enjoying … Continue reading →

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New Art Piece in McFarlin Library

Posted on 2013 November 21 by Carlos Acosta

The University of Tulsa’s Department of Special Collections and University Archives is proud to announce the display of the piece titled Peoria Avenue #7 by TU faculty member Mark Lewis. Professor Lewis, a graduate from the Kansas City Art Institute … Continue reading →

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Announcement: Anna Kavan at the Zarrow Art Center

Posted on 2013 October 31 by KristinaRosenthal

The University of Tulsa’s Department of Special Collections and University Archives is proud to announce the opening of an exhibit featuring the works of Anna Kavan. The exhibit will be shown in the Sherman Smith Family Gallery at the Zarrow … Continue reading →

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An American Visionary: Alexandre Hogue

Posted on 2013 September 11 by Carlos Acosta

The University of Tulsa’s Department of Special Collections and University Archives is proud to be a part of Corning, New York’s Rockwell Museum of Western Arts upcoming special exhibition titled An American Visionary: Alexandre Hogue, opening on Friday, September 27th, … Continue reading →

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Ewa Monika Zebrowski: Finding Wyeth

Posted on 2013 September 4 by Carlos Acosta

The University of Tulsa’s Department of Special Collections and University Archives would like to cordially invite our students, faculty, patrons, and the community in general, to our new exhibition titled Finding Wyeth. Finding Wyeth is a photographic essay created by … Continue reading →

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Yes! We Have Comic Books!

Posted on 2013 June 6 by Carlos Acosta

Popular Culture (commonly referred to as pop culture) is defined as the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th … Continue reading →

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I.33, The Illustrated Fightbook acquisition

Posted on 2013 May 16 by Marc Carlson

[I.33 : the illuminated fightbook : Royal Armouries manuscript I.33]. [London : Extraordinary Editions, 2013] (U860 .R69 2013 Oversize). Several years ago, The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections chose to be a sponsor for a facsimile … Continue reading →

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Anna Kavan

Posted on 2013 May 7 by Marc Carlson

Self Portrait, by Anna Kavan. Coll. No. 80.29.1 Recent digitization work on the Special Collections fine art holdings has exposed the paintings and sketches of Anna Kavan (1904-1968), an enigmatic British author and painter who struggled with depression much of … Continue reading →

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Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.

Posted on 2013 April 4 by KristinaRosenthal

On April 4th 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot while standing on the balcony of his hotel room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee. “The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers’ strike … Continue reading →

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Winter Poetry

Posted on 2013 February 1 by KristinaRosenthal

Although Oklahoma’s Winter weather is amazingly diverse, having 70 degree weather one day and 30 degrees the next, most of the United States is “enjoying” very cold, snowy, and sometimes dreary winter days. In the cold and dreariness of winter … Continue reading →

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