Wall Flowers – A Patrick Gordon Retrospective at Philbrook

Heather and I loaded up one day last week and went to Philbrook Museum to check out their Patrick Gordon Retrospective show. He’s a Tulsa area artist who has been painting for years. I am sorry to say that I had never heard of him. That’s sad for me because he is a great artist. […]

The Colors, Reflections and Refractions of Autumn at Philbrook Gardens

Last week I posted about an special art exhibition at Philbrook Museum of Art here in Tulsa. My last line was that I was going to the gardens. The gardens at Philbrook are every bit as special as the art inside the building. The signature feature of the gardens is the tempietto overlooking the reflecting […]

Philbrook Museum’s “American Artists, American Stories” from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

Tulsa’s Philbrook Museum of Art has this exhibit going on currently of American paintings from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. We are members of the museum so I went and took a look at it. They had tons and tons of art. The following were my favorite works. This work by Charles Willson Peale […]

Philbrook Gardens – Shadows and the secret location of the only Philbrook Geocache ever

Sharp Shadows from a bench on a sunny day. Complex Patters on a swing Sculptures of Sheep grazing contentedly on the lawn. Leaves casting a shadow on a sidewalk And now a reveal. This is the site of Philbrook’s only geocache from years ago. It has been disabled for years. It was a complicated multicache […]

Philbrook Reflections

I was at Tulsa Philbrook Museum Gardens checking out the fall foliage when I noticed some crystal balls hanging in one of the trees. So I went to check them out.l They had hung all these balls in the lower branches. I loved them. I think they are for the Christmas holidays. I had my […]

Our World – Philbrook Flowers and Reflections

The tempietto at Philbrook has to be the most photographed thing in town. I’ve taken a bunch myself. Back when the Waite Phillips family lived here way back when, the pond was a swimming pool and supposedly there was a changing room underneath the tempietto. The pond makes for some nice reflections. I love all […]