Julie Pearson-Little Thunder

author of "A Life Made with Artists"

December 15, 2016

Julie Pearson-Little Thunder is a visiting assistant professor with the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program at the OSU Library. Her main assignment is interviewing Native artists for the Oklahoma Native artists digital interview series. She has a Ph.D. in theatre studies from the University of Kansas and has written four oral history plays for OOHRP, based upon its interview collections. She also ran a Native theatre company in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and wrote about the Native art scene for Southwest Art and Oklahoma Today.

Some are born to paint. Others, to admire. And a few are born with the eye to spot great artistic talent and the passion to bring it to the world. Doris Littrell was always one of the latter. Whether tromping through mud to track down a promising canvas or whispering the needed word of encouragement in the ear of a struggling painter, she made her life with Native American artists. And in doing so, this longtime Oklahoma gallery owner helped make possible the contemporary Oklahoma Indian Art Movement. This is her true story told in her words, in the words of the artists she championed, and those of the collectors who admired them both graced by the art that Littrell loved so much. Book includes 32 pages of art by such renowned Native artists as Virginia Stroud, Robert Taylor, Mirac Creepingbear, and Benjamin Harjo.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2017-honorees-b/julie-pearson-little-thunder

Last Updated: 10 February 2017