August 7, 2009
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Sarah Boehme, Director
409.886.ARTS (2787)
Stark Museum Offers Annie Oakley Talk
ORANGE, TEXAS, August 7, 2009 – Who was the real Annie Oakley? Was she a frontier cowgirl, the first female superstar, or a genteel lady of the late Victorian period? The Stark Museum of Art will explore Annie Oakley’s identity in an interactive program, Annie Oakley Book Talk, on Thursday, August 13 at noon in the Museum’s Education Center, 812 Green Avenue, Orange, Texas. The program is free and open to the public.
Sarah Boehme, Director of the Stark Museum of Art, will lead a book-group discussion of the publication The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley by author Glenda Riley. Participants are encouraged to read the book in advance. The program will include a viewing of a twenty-one second film by Thomas Edison of Annie Oakley shooting targets in 1894.
“August 13 is Annie Oakley’s birthday, so we will serve birthday cake in her honor. The program is planned to take place over the lunch hour, so participants may bring a brown bag lunch to enjoy during the discussion. The Museum will furnish water and coffee,” explained Sarah Boehme.
The Annie Oakley Book Talk is held in coordination with the Stark Museum of Art’s special exhibition Pistols: Dazzling Firearms, on view through October 24. Two pistols given to Annie Oakley by her husband, Frank Butler, are featured in the exhibition. Pistols: Dazzling Firearms was organized by the Museum of the American West, Autry National Center, Los Angeles, California. The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley book is available at the Museum Store of the Stark Museum of Art.
Located at 712 Green Avenue in Orange, Texas, the Stark Museum of Art is open to the public at no charge Tuesday through Saturday. Hours are from 10 AM – 5 PM. Group tours are available by appointment. For more information call 409.886.ARTS (2787) or visit www.starkmuseum.org.
Unknown photographer.
Annie Oakley, c. 1899
Library of Congress
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-7873
About the Stark Museum of Art
The Stark Museum of Art focuses on the stunning land, the dramatic people and the diverse wildlife of the American West. Paintings, sculpture and prints interpret the West from nineteenth century frontier artists to the twentieth century artistic colonies in New Mexico. Artists include John James Audubon, Frederic Remington, and Charles Marion Russell.
The Museum also features a significant collection of American Indian objects, including baskets, pottery, clothing and weavings. Other permanent collections in the Museum include the complete porcelain American Bird Series by Dorothy Doughty and the only complete series of The United States in Crystal, a collection of crystal urns produced by Steuben Glass to depict the 50 states and the Union.
The Stark Museum of Art is a program of the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, a non-profit organization whose other programs include the Frances Ann Lutcher Theater for the Performing Arts, Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center, and The W.H. Stark House.
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