Adventures in Western art

By Dean Fenton Krakel

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0913504351
• ISBN13: 9780913504352
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: The Lowell Press
• Length: 379 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Dean Krakel's journey from the Gilcrease to the Hall of Fame

This book traces the career of the late Western Museum Director Dean Krakel from his early years at the Thomas Gilcrease Institute in Tulsa to his transformation of The Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center in Oklahoma City into a great museum of western art. The collection of Remmington, Russell, Shrevogel, Frasier, Moran, Bodmer, Bierstadt and many others was truly an adventure in aquisition. From the renouned art critics and dealers in New York to the Bienekie collection at Yale. The mentor relationship of the great collector Thomas Gilcrease to Krakel is worth reading the book alone. This book is a must for anyone interested in Western Art and the tough world of wheeling and dealing. There is also a number of colorful characters like Joel McCrea and Jasper Ackerman who helped aquire many paintings and provide financial support in a big way. The author gave me my copy and said he would not sign it until I wrote a review. Here is my review, a little late for the great man.