1. Woodrow Wilson Crumbo was a Native American artist and educator from Oklahoma.
22 Facts About Woody Crumbo
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Woody Crumbo was a citizen of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
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Woody Crumbo was an independent prospector in New Mexico in the late 1950s, who found one of the largest beryllium veins in the nation, valued at millions of dollars.
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Woody Crumbo's paintings are held by several major museums, including the Smithsonian Institution and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with a large collection at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma and a small collection at the Montana museum of art and culture.
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Woodrow Wilson Woody Crumbo was born on January 31,1912, near Lexington, Oklahoma.
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Woody Crumbo's mother was Mary Ann Herd Crumbo of Sand Springs, Oklahoma.
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When Woody Crumbo was 17, he began studying art at the Chilocco Indian Agricultural School, taking up the study of the Native American flute.
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At the age of 19, Woody Crumbo earned a scholarship to the American Indian Institute in Wichita, Kansas, where he graduated as valedictorian.
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Woody Crumbo continued his studies at Wichita University from 1933 to 1936, where he studied mural technique with Olle Nordmark, watercolor with Clayton Staples, and painting and drawing with Oscar Jacobson.
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In 1936 Woody Crumbo enrolled at the University of Oklahoma, where he studied for two years with Oscar Jacobson.
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Woody Crumbo toured Indian reservations across the United States in the early 1930s disseminating and studying tribal dances.
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Subsequently, Woody Crumbo joined the Bacone College in Muskogee as Director of Art from 1938 to 1941, succeeding Acee Blue Eagle.
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In 1943, Woody Crumbo was commissioned to paint The Rainbow Trail in the Notawa post office.
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Woody Crumbo was commissioned to paint two murals in the USS.
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From 1948 to 1960, Woody Crumbo lived in Taos, New Mexico.
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Woody Crumbo exhibited at numerous shows and became more widely known both nationally and internationally because he adapted some of his work to techniques of engraving and printing, making multiple originals.
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Woody Crumbo left to work independently at art and explore humanitarian efforts.
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Woody Crumbo aided the Isleta Pueblo Indians of New Mexico to gain federal recognition and donated money to help the Citizen Potawatomi build a cultural heritage center in Shawnee.
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Woody Crumbo was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame for his artistic practice in 1978.
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Woody Crumbo's work was part of Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades of Native Painting, a survey at the National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center.
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Woody Crumbo moved to Cimarron, New Mexico in 1988, and died there in 1989.
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Woody Crumbo's body was returned for burial in Okmulgee, Oklahoma.