Byron Price

Image: University of Oklahoma

Charlie Russell

Image: C.M. Russell Museum

Join Byron Price for this year’s Lunch & Lecture Playing Cowboy: Charlie Russell and the Silver Screen as he discusses Charlie Russell and his influence on Western cinema and how western movies influenced his art.

Byron Price currently holds the Charles Marion Russell Memorial Chair, is Director of Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West at the University of Oklahoma and is Director of the University of Oklahoma Press.

Price is the author of more than three dozen journal articles on western American history and art and has written several books including Fine Art of the West (2004); The Chuck Wagon Cook Book (2004); Erwin E. Smith: Cowboy Photographer (1997); and Cowboys of the American West (1996).

Price is also the editor of Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonné (2007), which won the 2007 Western Heritage Award for the best art book of the year from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, the 2008 Caughey-Western History Association Prize for best book of the year in western history, the 2008 High Plains Book Award for nonfiction and the 2009 Joan Patterson Kerr Award from the Western History Association for the best illustrated book on the American West.

Lecture location Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Lunch 12:30PM; lecture will begin at 1PM.