Sun Patterns, Dark Canyon: the Paintings and Aquatints of Doel Reed (1894-1985) 

 

Black Bear Creek Country, 1936, Doel Reed.

 

Sun Patterns—Dark Canyons: the Paintings and Aquatints of Doel Reed (1894-1985) will open at the Oklahoma State University Museum of Art on July 6, 2021. Curated by Dr. Rebecca Brienen, Vennerberg Chair in Art and Professor of Art History at OSU, this retrospective exhibition will feature almost 60 of Reed’s works from his long and successful career. 

 

The exhibition is expected to travel to Kansas in late 2021-2022 and New Mexico in 2023. A full-color catalogue will feature essays on Reed by Dr. Brienen, Dr. Mark White, Executive Director of the New Mexico Museum of Art, Cori North, and Curator at the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery. The catalogue concludes with the history of the Doel Reed Center, the gift by Martha Reed, and the mission of the center written by Dr. Carol Moder.

 

In addition, each work of art featured in the exhibition will be illustrated in the catalogue. Recently, the Doel Reed Center received a gift in honor of Burns and Ann Hargis by Janis and Roy Coffee. The painting titled, Black Bear Creek Country will be included in the exhibition and catalogue.

 

The exhibition will be up through October 30, 2021. The OSU Museum of Art and the Doel Reed Center will host a number of events to celebrate the exhibition.

 

The catalogue has been made possible through the generous support of the Thoma Family Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art. The exhibition has been made possible through the generous support of Kent and Jeanette Young, the Doel Reed Center Program Fund, Neal and Lora Buck, The Vaughn Vennerberg II Chair in Art Endowment, and the OSU Museum of Art Advocates.