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George Calvert Collection

George CalvertFifty paintings and drawings of George Calvert are featured on 4th floor and in Old North building. Mr. Calvert was a professor of fine arts at Northeastern University and Southwestern University.

George Calvert working with studentsGeorge Emmett Calvert (1928 - 2002) taught oil and watercolor painting, etching, sculpture and pottery as a professor of fine arts at Northeastern University and at Southwestern University.

Mr. Calvert often painted in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and owned the Blue Dolphin Art Gallery in Aransas Pass, Texas.

Governor Dewey L. Bartlett appointed George Calvert Oklahoma's first Ambassador of the Arts.

Mr. Calvert's art estate contained over 2,000 pieces, including clay pottery, sculpture, as well as oils, watercolors, and etchings. His legacy is the vast number of artists that he mentored and who are now mentoring other artists.

San Miguel

San Miguel

Untitled (Turquoise Orange Abstract)

Untitled (Turquoise Orange Abstract)

Untitled (Two at Beach)

Untitled (Two at Beach)

Untitled (Watercolor Village)

Untitled (Watercolor Village)

Untitled (Yellow Green Landscape)

Untitled (Yellow Green Landscape)

Untitled (Aquaducts)

Untitled (Aqueducts)

Untitled (Blue and Red Abstract)

Untitled (Blue and Red Abstract)

Untitled (General Store)

Untitled (General Store)

Untitled (Still Life)

Untitled (Still Life)

Untitled (Trees on Fire)

Untitled (Trees on Fire)

Untitled (Umbrella)

Untitled (Umbrella)

Ratpeople

Ratpeople

Red Building

Red Building

Untitled (Ink Village)

Untitled (Ink Village)

Santa Rosita

Santa Rosita

Sonora

Sonora

Spanish Gothic

Spanish Gothic

To Rod from Cal

To Rod from Cal

Town Landscape

Town Landscape

Two Cabins

Two Cabins

View of San Miguel

View of San Miguel

Villa

Villa

Violet Village

Violet Village

Walk to Town

Walk to Town

With Liberty for All

With Liberty for All

Woodblock

Woodblock

jalopy

Jalopy

5 fiddle

5 fiddle

abstract

Abstract

Ancient One

Ancient One

drums

Drums

Casa Rosita

Casa Rosita

City Sun

City Sun

coop

Coop

farmhouse

Farmhouse

fishing vessel

Fishing Vessel

grain building

Grain Building

graveyard

Graveyard

inkwash

Inkwash

Cathedral town

Cathedral town

king

King

Kingdom by the Sea

Kingdom by the Sea

Market Shades

Market Shades

Mexican Hacienda

Mexican Hacienda

Mexican Hill Town

Mexican Hill Town

Mexico Scene

Mexico Scene

Mission at Sonora

Mission at Sonora

Mosque

Mosque

Night Spires

Night Spires

Untitled (Autumn Trees)

Untitled (Autumn Trees)

Untitled (Brown Building with People)

Untitled (Brown Building with People)

Untitled (Green Forest)

Untitled (Green Forest)