Posted: 09 Jun 2011 07:20 PM PDT
NORMAN, OK.- Art appreciation takes many forms, but for Rennard Strickland, collecting art has become a lifelong legacy. Over five decades, he has acquired more than 100 paintings, baskets, pottery, textiles and sculpture, representing some of the most acclaimed artists of the 20th century.Strickland, who is of Osage and Cherokee heritage, served as curator of Native American art at OU’s art museum in the early 1990s. In 2007, he announced that he wished to give his remarkable collection to the museum in memory of his mother, Adell Tucker Strickland. Highlights from his collection, which he recently gave to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
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