Spring 2020 Senior Exhibits: Hannah Harvey

Hannah Danielle Harvey

This exhibit titled "The Art of Woody Crumbo" has been curated by Hannah Danielle Harvey.
It features eight of Crumbo’s most recognizable serigraphs and celebrates Native American art by documenting his cultures and customs.

Curator's Statement:

Lexington, Oklahoma native Woody Crumbo is instrumental in telling the story of Native America. The Art of Woody Crumbo brings together works from the East Central University collection to bring a fresh perspective to Native American art. All eight of the exhibition pieces are serigraphs--however, Crumbo completed art in a wide variety of materials, such as murals and oil paintings.

Born on January 31, 1912, Woody Crumbo was a Potawatomi artist and dancer throughout his life. Many of his works depict dancers and other tribal symbols. These were results of staying with many different Native American families after his parents’ deaths in his early childhood. After graduating as valedictorian from Wichita American Indian Institute at age nineteen, Crumbo continued his studies at a number of universities, served as the director of art for different organizations, and completed numerous commissions.

Crumbo was an advocate for affordability and accessibility in art and mass-produced many of his pieces for that reason. East Central University is honored to have fourteen Crumbo originals in its collection. As Woody Crumbo once said: “I am attempting to record Indian customs and legends now, while they are alive, to make them a part of the great American culture before these, too, become lost, only to be fragmentarily pieced together by fact and supposition.”

Woody Crumbo was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1978. Despite his death in 1989, he will be revered as a pioneer in the Native American art scene for years to come.

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The works displayed in this virtual exhibit are the property of East Central University.