BEST WESTERN ART MUSEUM Just when you thought Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Gilcrease Museum couldn’t get any better, the University of Tulsa, which manages this world-class facility, acquired the C.M. Russell Research Collection in September from the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. The addition of more than 13,000 objects that cover practically all of cowboy artist Charlie Russell’s life and work makes our choice of Western Art Museum of the Year pretty easy. We’re talking about original sketch

May 2010
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- Fort Pierre, South Dakota
- William C. Porter
- Western Flair the Duke Would Appreciate
- Grape History on a Sunset Ride
- Top 10 Western Museums of 2010
- Great Guns in the Panhandle
- The Walls of a Prison Will Never Hold Me
- Depression-Era Treasure
- Tracking a Vendetta Rider
- As American as Apple Pie
- Mellow-Trauma
- Straws in the Wind
- Custer Portrait Shares a Hidden Story
- Centennial Celebration
- Can you tell me something about the Apache of southern Arizona?
- Can you tell me something about the comic book hero Kid Colt?