Governor's Arts Awards Collection 1974-open 1997-2004

Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-2024

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Navarre Scott Momaday (born February 27, 1934, Lawton, Oklahoma – died January 24, 2024, Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American and Kiowa novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet from Oklahoma and New Mexico. His novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969, and is considered the first major work of the Native American Renaissance. His follow-up work The Way to Rainy Mountain blends folklore with memoir. Momaday received the National Medal of Arts in 2007 fo...

Houser, Allan, 1914-1994

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Allan Houser was born Allan Capron Haozous on June 30, 1914. Houser’s parents, Sam and Blossom Haozous, belonged to the Chiricahua Apache tribe; Sam’s father was first cousin to the legendary Apache leader Geronimo. In 1934 Houser left Oklahoma to study at Dorothy Dunn's Art Studio at the Santa Fe Indian School in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 1937, Allan had his first solo exhibition at the Museum of New Mexico. Within two years of graduating from the Indian School, he had already shown his work a...

Porter, Eliot

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Photographer and pioneer in dye transfer color printing. From the description of Dr. W. Powell Cottrille collection of Eliot Porter materials, 1960-1964. (Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Research Library). WorldCat record id: 122597752 From the description of Stephen Porter collection of Eliot Porter papers, 1953-1989 (bulk 1960s). (Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Research Library). WorldCat record id: 122492168 From the description of Eliot Porter/Ansel Ada...

Oliphant, Patrick, 1934-

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Gorman, R. C., 1931-2005

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Nichols, John Treadwell, 1940-....

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Author and activist, John Treadwell Nichols was born in Berkeley, CA on July 23, 1940. His mother, Monique Robert, was French. His great grandfather on Monique's side, Anatole Le Braz, was a noted poet and folklorist from Brittany (in the North of France) whose work is still revered and in print. His American paternal grandfather (and namesake), John T. Nichols, was a distinguished naturalist and longtime Curator of Recent Fishes at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Paternal gr...

Hillerman, Tony.

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