Philbrook Museum of Art Announces Receipt of the Hyatt Collection of Hopi Art

ARTDAILY

The Hyatt family began traveling to the Hopi reservation in northern Arizona in the late 1980s.

OKLAHOMA--- Philbrook Museum of Art announced the important gift of 364 works of Hopi art, including katsinas, basketry and other media from Atlanta and Santa Fe-based collector, Wayne S. Hyatt. Featuring works by more than 160 artists, the Hyatt Collection both expands and strengthens the impressive survey of 20th and 21st century Native American art within the Philbrook holdings. Highlights of the collection include 25 katsinas (carved wooden figures of Hopi spiritual beings) by brothers Wilmer and Wilfred Kaye of the Badger/Butterfly Clan of Third Mesa. [link]

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Oklahoma's Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art Breaks New Ground

TULSA WORLD

OKLAHOMA---Ground was broken last week for a new entrance and expansion to the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art on the Zarrow Campus of the Jewish Federation of Tulsa, 2021 E. 71st St. The project will add 800 square feet and a new gallery to the museum, which features Jewish art, history and culture in the largest collection of Judaica in the Southwest. [link]

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