Michael, you make me homesick -- in a good way! Gilcrease may have been where I first "discovered" Edward S. Curtis's photography, though I am not sure my memory serves me well, there. They house Frederic Remington (one of my favorites), and Charles Russell, a favorite of Timothy Murphy here. I am at work on an ekphrastic series, in fact, with Remington as my subject.
I used to live in Tulsa. I went to school there. I met the love of my life there. Later, we married, and my first child was born there.
"Heartwarming" is the perfect adjective. You know, Sequoyah was an artist, as well, and I have to laugh, looking at that cabin. I think of him as a sort-of Native American Van Gogh, in terms of domicile. He used buckskins, whereas Vincent hung prints, and his quarters were so vividly crimson and coral-bronze, compared to the French blues, etc. But the "bones" are there.
I might have to write a poem about it...
Many thanks,
J
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