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A Place of Coming Together: The Historic Jacobson House (open access)

A Place of Coming Together: The Historic Jacobson House

Article documents the life of Oscar Jacobson, an artist and world art historian who ran the School of Art at the University of Oklahoma. He was the first art authority to recognize Native American painting as fine art and introduced it to the international market. The article also details the efforts of the Jacobson House Committee in the 1980s to restore and preserve the house as a Native American Arts Center.
Date: Winter 2000
Creator: Whitney, Carol
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History