George Carlson, Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project

George Carlson was interviewed in his Harrison, Idaho, studio by Dickinson Research Center Director Chuck Rand and videotaped by Curator of Art Ed Muno. Carlson studied at the American Academy of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of Arizona at Tucson. A guest artist at the 1974 NAWA show (precursor to the Prix de West exhibition), Carlson won the Prix de West Award for his bronze, Courtship Flight, the following year. Actor/comedian Bill Cosby has commissioned four portrait bronzes from Carlson. Presently, Carlson is transitioning from sculptural work and returning to oil painting after a 35-year hiatus.
Film clips are from an interview with artist George Carlson as part of the A. Keith Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project. The full interview is available for viewing in the Donald C. & Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
The A. Keith Brodkin Project facilitates the collection, preservation, and accessibility of primary resources such as personal papers, studio ephemera, photographs, libraries, and other items which are often overlooked and lost to posterity and which reflect the artists life and career. Additional resources are acquired through personal oral histories via recorded interviews. Collecting these resources effectively preserves artists careers for posterity and provides future artists, art historians, educators, and researchers with documentary evidence.
Please visit these websites:
The A. Keith Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project:
www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/r...
Donald C. & Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center:
www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/r...
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum:
www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/