Resume:

Career Highlights

2000. Became General Editor of CROSSTIMBERS

1999. The Decline and Death of Civility, lecture for the Bridging the Millennia Symposia at Cameron University.

1998. Developed Interactive TV course with Cameron University on Art as Propaganda

1997. Appointed Director of the USAO Art Gallery, Chickasha, www.usao.edu/gallery/. Developed Interactive TV course on Understanding Native American Art.

1991. Appointed Regents Professor of Art, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasha. Directed a special OU seminar at the University of Oxford, Rewley House, on the "Rise of the Augustans" teaching with scholars from Oxford college. Have participated in some fifty such interdisciplinary seminars and courses.

1988. Retired after 29 years of teaching at the University of Oklahoma. Appointed Professor Emeritus.

1975. Began developing course offerings in art theory at both the graduate and undergraduate level (OU).

1967. Developed the BA in Art (Art History) and the MA in Art programs. Expanded the graduate offerings in art history particularly in the art-history education area.

1966. Served as director of the OU School of Art. Taught a liberal study course for the U. S. Air Force in Wiesbaden, Germany, and while on sabbatical studied existential aesthetic and art theory in Basil. Received the Governor's award for contributions in the arts in Oklahoma.

1963. Prepared and presented a television series for TV Channel 13, The Tradition of Beauty The in 17 episodes. Taught a summer course for American students at the Academia dell'Arte, Rome.

1962. Received the Governor’s Award for having founded a program for expanding the knowledge and understanding of art history in the state. With the cooperation and support of the National Gallery of Art (Washington DC) slides were circulated to public and private schools in the state. A teaching guide for the introduction of art at the high school level was written, published and distributed. A student study guide, From Giotto to Cezanne, was also prepared and statewide activities were developed to encourage the study of art history.

1961 Hired as an instructor in art at the University of Oklahoma to teach courses in the history of art in design. Expanded the history offerings from eight courses in 1959 to 20 courses in 1965. Introduced the BFA in Art (major in Art History) and expanded the slide collection to a reasonable size to cover the expanded course offerings.

Selected Research

2007 "An Oklahoman in Paris," Winter Edition.

2006 "The Decline of the Humanities and the Death of Civility," Spring/Summer Edition.

2004 "Jack Brooks: The Black Man's Experience: A Historic Experience," CROSSTIMBERS, Fall Edition.

2001 "The Search for Cultural Identity, " CROSSTIMBERS, Spring Edition. "To Hell with Artists" a brown bag luncheon talk on depiction of the underworld. Leslie Powell Gallery, Lawton.

1995. "Art of the Great Religions." A series of eight public lectures at the University of Science and Art of Oklahoma (Chickasha) with cable TV.

1994. "Puritan Sermons on Alcohol and Sex." Popular Culture Conference, Oklahoma Christian College, OKC.

1992. "Nature as Destruction and Restoration: An Examination of Early Nineteenth Landscape Painting." Conference on Religion and Literature, Shawnee, OK.

1992. "The Tutor Image of Women: An Examination of the Thomas Hoby Translation of Castigleoni’s Translation of Castigleoni's Courtyr." Renaissance Conference, Lawton, OK.

1986. "Japanese Art on the International Scene." Art Gallery International. November/December. pp. 48, 49, and 60. "Art in China Today." Art Gallery International. July/August. pp. 38, 39, 46 and 48.

1985. "Reynolds and the Rise of Aesthetic Indeterminacy." South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Baton Rouge.

1982. "Battle of Blenheim Palace: A case study in eighteenth century governmental patronage." National Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Houston.

1981. "Caricator Caricatus: Wherein is Explored the Way in which Tobias Smollett Vituperated the Reputation of William Hogarth through the Introduction of the Character Pallet in to The Adventure of Peregrine Pickle." SCSEC, Austin.

1979. "Aesthetic Diffidence: The rise of Cultural Indeterminacy in eighteenth century England." Rocky Mountain Conference on British Studies. Precis published in Albion. "Puritan Origins of the Restoration Mode of Gentlefolk." MPS, Springfield.

1978. "Faunal Aedicule as Non-Finito in English Landscape Gardens." SCSECS, Texas A&M. "Invitation of Participation: A theory of sub-literary genre." MPS, Warrensburg.

Recent Art Shows and Activities

Designs in the archives of the Australian National gallery, Canbera; Brooklyn Museum, the print department. of the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, both New York City; New York Public Library; libraries of the University of California at and Santa Barbara, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and Yale University. Member and former president of the Board of Trustees, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition.

1998. With Dolly Lee,  Independent Artists of Oklahoma show. OKC.

1997. Juried the seventh biennial OKLAHOMA: Centerfold show at the Leslie Powell      Gallery, Lawton, OK.

1997. Show with Dolly Lee at Redlands Junior College, El Reno, OK.

1996.Selections from the Remembered Images Show, jointly with Dolly Lee, Art Resources T Studio, Chickasha, OK.

Selections from the Remembered Images Show, jointly with Dolly Lee, Leslie Powell Gallery, Lawton. OK.

Remembered Images, jointly with Dolly Lee, Norick Art Center, OCU,
Oklahoma City, OK.

1993. OCAM at Arts Place, Furniture as Art show. First Place award, OKC

1993.Beyond Folk, jointly with Dolly Lee, City Arts Center, OKC.

The Art Boys, USAO Faculty Show at the Art Resources T Studio, Chickasha.

1992. Poetic Images: A Private View of the Southwest, jointly with Dolly Lee, Leslie Powell Foundation Gallery,    Lawton.

1989. Juried the first Oklahoma Centerfold. Leslie Powell Foundation Gallery, Lawton.

1988.A Decade of Kinetic Machines, one-man show. University Gallery Cameron University, Lawton Invitational Mailart shows in Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin, Tokyo, Kyoto, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago.

1983. Kinetic Machines, One-man Show. Drury College, Springfield, MO; Magic Show, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA; Altar Popular--Basurero de Despojos Y Roeticos, Buenos Aires; Mosta Internazionale di Mailart, Monticello, Rome.

1982. Winterworks show, OMA, OKC.

1981. Wind and Dust show, Houston, TX, and Springfield, MO.

1976. Perception of Proportionality, one man show, Norman (Contemporary Arts Foundation), Bristol, OK, (Arts Council) and Oklahoma Science and Arts Center, Oklahoma.