Gilcrease left behind a legacy of art
Dale Lewis
E-E- Columnist
Welcome back. Over the past 17 years, I’ve recommended many places for you readers to visit, and this week I’ve got another one. But don’t wait too long, because on July 5 the City of Tulsa will be bringing in heavy equipment that will tear down Gilcrease Museum.
Yes friends, if you want to see the historic building that Thomas Gilcrease constructed to house one of the world’s largest, most comprehensive collections of art and artifacts of the Old West you’d better hurry.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with Thomas Gilcrease, here’s a short biography. He was born in 1890 in Louisiana but shortly afterward the family moved to the Eufaula, Oklahoma, area in Indian Territory. His mother was a member of the Muscogee Nation and was entitled to a 160-acre allotment on the Creek tribal lands where the family settled.