The Moran Brothers and America’s Lands
Guest: Laura Fry
Thursday, March 7, 2024, 5:30-6 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
Free and open to the public
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Livestream conversation with guest Laura Fry, senior curator, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa about artist-brothers Thomas and Edward Moran and their landscape paintings on view at the museum. The Thomas Moran painting is on loan from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Edward Moran, Western Landscape, 1866, oil on canvas, 29 ½ x 50 in., gift of Charles V. Kincaid, 1963.6
Laura Fry began as senior curator and curator of American art at Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2015. Fry is leading the development of an interpretive plan for the Gilcrease permanent collections in the museum’s new building (estimated to open in 2026). Fry earned her bachelor of fine arts degree from Washington University in St. Louis. She received a master’s degree in art history from the University of Denver. Before Gilcrease, Fry worked at the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming.
This virtual program is part of the Beach Museum of Art’s ‘Art in Motion’ annual program series.