Lena Stovall Blakeney art and personal papers collection [manuscript materials] : at the Autry National Center. 1896-1964.

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Lena Stovall Blakeney art and personal papers collection [manuscript materials] : at the Autry National Center. 1896-1964.

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The collection consists of works by Lena Stovall Blakeney at various points in her life. In 1896 through 1898, while attending The Ward Seminary for Young Ladies, she created watercolors, drawings, and pen and ink drawings. The works from Ladonia, Texas, and Hugo, Indian Territory, include sketches and drawings of African Americans, watercolors, oil paintings, and a study for a painting of the Wheelock Mission Church, Millerton, Oklahoma. Also from this time, illustrations and plein air landscape studies of southeastern Oklahoma in all seasons, circa 1909-1911. The New Mexico portion of the collection consists of oil paintings and charcoal sketches. The remainder of the collection consists of ephemera, postcards, newspaper clippings, programs, and a copy of Blakeney's obituary from the "Paris News," Paris, Texas, June 21, 1964.

5 linear feet plus framed works in art storage (207 works of art, 1 yearbook, 10 folders ephemera, postcards, correspondence, news clippings, and other pieces.)

The Autry Museum of the American West, Autry Library and Braun Research Library

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The Autry Museum of the American West, Autry Library and Braun Research Library

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Ward Seminary (Nashville, Tenn.)

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Autry National Center

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Blakeney, Lena Stovall.

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Blakeney, Lena Stovall, 1878-1964.

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Lena Stovall Blakeney was an artist who lived and worked in southeastern Oklahoma from 1899 until her death in 1964. Her works excelled in close observations of people and landscapes of southeastern Oklahoma during its transition from Indian Territory to statehood. Before she moved to Oklahoma, L.S. Blakeney attended The Ward Seminary For Young Ladies in Nashville, Tenn. In 1898, Blakeney was the art director of "The Iris," the school's yearbook, a copy of which is in the collection. As editor, ...