{"id":15761,"date":"2025-11-18T10:52:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15761"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:52:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:52:44","slug":"wall-flowers-a-patrick-gordon-retrospective-at-philbrook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15761","title":{"rendered":"Wall Flowers – A Patrick Gordon Retrospective at Philbrook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Heather and I loaded up one day last week and went to Philbrook Museum<\/strong><\/a> to check out their Patrick Gordon<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He paints mainly in watercolors but also does oils. He is spectacular with flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The colors are very rich and the effect is overwhelming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He uses a lot of symbology in his painting. He painted this for his church. The flowers represent the members. The statue of liberty represents freedom. The name of the piece is “Simple Gifts” which is Gordon’s favorite hymn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He did a lot of commissions. This was for a family and the objects on the table represent things dear to the family. I keyed upon the toy railroad tank car. Apparently the family sold Magnolia Petroleum to one of my former employers, Mobil Oil Corporation, for a huge sum of money. Good for them is what I think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He did portraits as well. This is “Osage Falconer.” I found it quite striking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is entitled “James and Maya.” Another striking portrait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And I loved this one. He did this in honor of Tulsa’s 100th Anniversary as an incorporated town. The oak leaves and acorns are symbolic of the Council Oak Tree where the Muskogee Native Americans who made the long trek on the trail of tears congregated to form a new town. You have the Arkansas River and the oil tanks symbolic of Tulsa’s place as the Oil Capital of the World. I loved it because of the vantage point. High above the city looking toward the west along the Arkansas River and the sunset. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is one of hundreds of photographs I took with a similar vantage point. Before I retired, I took similar photos to his painting during the late fall, winter, and spring from my office. As far as I can tell, his vantage point was higher and to the north of my office building. You notice that I bring everything back to me. I’m bad about that. I’m selfish like that. You don’t have to agree with me so fast about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A special treat is that you can watch Pat Gordon paint right in the Philbrook gallery. Check the web site if you want to see him to make sure he is going to be there. They also have an interesting video of him that plays on a continuous loop talking about him. After all these decades he still paints full time in his home. The guy is a painting machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You want to go see him check out Philbrook’s web site<\/strong><\/a> for the details and get yourself some tickets. It is quite an exhibition. Gordon also has a website of his own<\/strong><\/a> with photos of even more works. Go check it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am linking with My Corner of the World<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3294],"tags":[1289,3272,2144,3974,1638],"class_list":["post-15761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-corner-of-the-world","tag-art","tag-my-corner-of-the-world","tag-painting","tag-patrick-gordon","tag-philbrook-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15762,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15761\/revisions\/15762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}