EVENT: UCO housing Melton Legacy Art Collection
DATE: Through the end of the year
The University of Central Oklahoma College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) recently celebrated the opening of the Melton Legacy Collection of European and American Art at the Central Museum of Art, currently located in the Art and Design Building on campus. The museum will be the temporary home for the collection until a permanent site is selected later.
Worth more than $4 million dollars, the collection of art was donated to the CAMD in 2002 by the Melton Art Reference Library.
The collection includes 62 paintings and drawings, spanning more than 500 years of European and American art, all of which were collected by the late Howard and Merle Melton.
"We are so grateful to the Melton Art Reference Library for their generosity," said Dr. Christopher Markwood, dean of the college. "This collection will serve as an invaluable educational and cultural resource for our students and the community."
The collection's centerpiece is Thomas Moran's "Venice at Sunset," part of his famed Venice series. Other featured artists include Peter Paul Rubens, Edward Munch and George Rouault.
During the past two years, the college has prepared the Central Museum of Art to house the display of this collection.
Now, the collection will be used as an educational tool for the Department of Art and the Department of History's Museum Studies program.
For more information, contact UCO Galleries and Museums Coordinator Zina Gelona at 405-974-2432.