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Oil on linen
Dimensions: 13' x 27'
Commissioned by the Oklahoma Legislature in 1970
Dedicated on November 16, 1976
5th floor Rotunda

Vocabulary

Oklahoma History Vocabulary

• Commerce- the trade of goods or commodities
• Commodities- agricultural products bought and sold in commerce
• Consumer- a person or organization that uses a commodity or service
• Economy- a system that includes all the activities involved in the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services
• Export- to ship commodities to other countries or places for sale or trade
• Frontier- the area at the edge or just beyond a settled area
• Keelboat- a shallow covered vessel that is rowed, towed, or poled on a river
• Middleman- a trader who buys goods from producers and sells them to other traders or consumers
• Saltworks- a manufacturing plant where salt is prepared for sale
• Squatter- one who settles on unoccupied land in order to gain title to it
• Topography- physical features of the land, such as mountains or plateaus
  
  

Visual Arts Vocabulary

• Center of Interest- a principle of design; the accent or important area used to attract the viewers' attention; i.e., emphasis
• Color- an element of art; hue (name of the color), value (how light a color is), and intensity (amount of brightness) produced through the reflection of light to the eye
• Depth- the illusion of space in a picture
• Subject Matter- the categories for identifying the type of content in visual works of art, such as abstractions, animals, landscapes, genre (people in everyday activities), human figures, cityscapes, seascapes, etc.
• Unity- a principle of design; sense of oneness, of things belonging together and making up a coherent whole