{"id":11,"date":"2016-11-02T16:42:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T16:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/okartleague.org\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2023-03-07T21:43:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T21:43:18","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/okartleague.org\/?page_id=11","title":{"rendered":"Our History \/ Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Oklahoma Art League was organized in 1910 by Nellie Shepard, Mrs. John S Shartel, and Mrs. Edwin Dunn. These Ladies met in Paris and talked about establishing an art museum in Oklahoma City. The first meeting was held in January 1911. Charles Colcord was elected president and the dues were $1 with a membership of 30. In 1915, Mrs. Jon Shartel was elected president for the next 36 years.<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Art league started collecting art for the future museum in 1913. The first two pieces acquired were \u201cA Brittany Fisherman\u201d by Nellie Shepard and \u201cA Hindu\u201d by Martha Avery. Both pieces now belong to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0After many years of collecting pieces of art, Nan Sheets, a member of the Art League, became director of the W.P.A. Art Center, which opened in 1935. She had housed and curated the art pieces in her home, which is now JRB Art at the Elms owned by our member Joy Reed Belt.<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In 1958, thanks to a generous contribution by the John Kirkpatrick family, the Oklahoma Art Center opened at the fairgrounds. Finally, in 1989 the Oklahoma Art Center and the Oklahoma Art Museum, which was located on the Buttram estate, merged to form the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. In 2002 the Oklahoma City Museum of Art moved to its new home downtown.<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Over the years Oklahoma Art League has donated an impressive body of artwork to the OKCMOA as well as to other numerous Oklahoma museums and institutions. The Club has also given scholarships to enable students and artists to enhance their artistic skills, as well as a generous donation to the Capital Campaign for the new Oklahoma Contemporary Art Center building located at NW 11<sup>th<\/sup> and Broadway.<\/h4>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<p><em>For information about the Oklahoma Art League please email:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>okartleague@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Oklahoma Art League was organized in 1910 by Nellie Shepard, Mrs. John S Shartel, and Mrs. Edwin Dunn. These Ladies met in Paris and talked about establishing an art museum in Oklahoma City. The first meeting was held in January 1911. Charles Colcord was elected president and the dues were $1 with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/okartleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/okartleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/okartleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/okartleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/okartleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/okartleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/okartleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/okartleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}