Change Your Landscape, Change Your Life
May 2021
The new exhibit on display in the Max Chambers Library, Change Your Landscape, Change Your Life, features landscape paintings from the Melton Art Reference Library Collection. As the past year’s restrictions on travel and social gathering continue to loosen, the current images encourage us to journey to new locations and to explore the great outdoors. Experiencing nature can soothe us and expand our appreciation for the environment. Traveling to new destinations can broaden our perspectives and offer respite from difficult times. Whether you venture to the rocky coast of the northeast or to the cactus-filled desert of the southwest (or if you decide to imagine the vast, wide open mountainside or a secluded, forest path), changing your scenery can improve your mental state and even transform your life.
Linda Tuma Robertson (American, 1952- ). Mountain Road, nd. Oil. Archives & Special Collections, Max Chambers Library, University of Central Oklahoma. The Melton Art Reference Library Collection, Gift of Melton Family.
Ruth Monro Augur (American, 1886-1967). Village by the Stream, nd. Tempera. Archives & Special Collections, Max Chambers Library, University of Central Oklahoma. The Melton Art Reference Library Collection, Gift of Melton Family.
Joan Marron-LaRue (American, 1934- ). Cozy Cove: San Diego Harbor, 2004. Oil on board. Archives & Special Collections, Max Chambers Library, University of Central Oklahoma. The Melton Art Reference Library Collection, Gift of Melton Family.
John Noel Hayward (American, 1903-1977). Untitled (Mountain Stream), nd. Watercolor. Archives & Special Collections, Max Chambers Library, University of Central Oklahoma. The Melton Art Reference Library Collection, Gift of Melton Family.
Anna Rhodes Hazzard Miller (American, 1863-1941). Mountain Landscape, nd. Oil on canvas. Archives & Special Collections, Max Chambers Library, University of Central Oklahoma. The Melton Art Reference Library Collection, Gift of Melton Family.
Casimir Rutkowski (American, 1941-2005). Landscape, nd. Oil on board. Archives & Special Collections, Max Chambers Library, University of Central Oklahoma. The Melton Art Reference Library Collection, Gift of Melton Family.
Alice Polk Fleming (American, 1896-1993). Untitled (Arbuckle Waterfall), 1931. Watercolor. Archives & Special Collections, Max Chambers Library, University of Central Oklahoma. The Melton Art Reference Library Collection, Gift of Melton Family.
Margaret A. Wiesendanger (American, 1908-1994). Seashore View - Oqunqut, Maine, 1934. Watercolor. Archives & Special Collections, Max Chambers Library, University of Central Oklahoma. The Melton Art Reference Library Collection, Gift of Melton Family.
Hamilton Hamilton (American, 1847-1928). Desert Landscape, nd. Oil on board. Archives & Special Collections, Max Chambers Library, University of Central Oklahoma. The Melton Art Reference Library Collection, Gift of Melton Family.
Curator
Kristi Kohl, Archives Specialist
