Join us for a livestream conversation with guest Laura Fry, senior curator, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa about artist-brothers Thomas and Edward Moran and their landscape paintings on view at the museum. The Thomas Moran painting is on loan from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Free and open to the public 

Join the free program via Zoom. Click here to register. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about how to join the program.

Laura Fry began as senior curator and curator of American art at Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2015. Fry is leading the development of an interpretive plan for the Gilcrease permanent collections in the museum’s new building (estimated to open in 2026). Fry earned her bachelor of fine arts degree from Washington University in St. Louis. She received a master’s degree in art history from the University of Denver. Before Gilcrease, Fry worked at the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming.

This virtual event is part of the Beach Museum of Art's annual program series, Art in Motion: a tribute to Marianna’s love for lifelong learning! Marianna Kistler Beach believed in the value of art and the importance of cross-cultural understanding. The museum offers the Art in Motion programs in celebration of her work and leadership.

Image: Edward Moran, Western Landscape, 1866, oil on canvas, 29 ½ x 50 in., gift of Charles V. Kincaid, 1963.6