Fourth of July

Today our OK friends took us to see the Gilcrease Museum, a wonderful collection of American art, and a lot of native American art and artifacts. Some of the art is just about the American west.  The newest and most surprising exhibit dealt with the subject of the depictions of black Americans in WWI war propaganda posters where images of black Americans were used mostly for recruitment.  Some of the posters from other countries presented quite racist images.  A lot of the research on these posters was done and annotated for the History Detectives PBS TV series by Tukufu Zuberi.  A very interesting exhibit to compare with posters we had seen in the WWI museum in Kansas City (a very good and little known museum). Another newish exhibit was of artifacts of the plains dwelling native Americans, and a big exhibit of historical art by White Swan, Indian scout and survivor of the battle of Little Big Horn.  This was a perfect combination over all to take in to celebrate the 4th of July.