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ByrON priCE ArT hiSTOry
Byron Price currently holds the Charles Marion Russell Memorial Chair, is Director of the 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.
He is a 1970 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and earned a master of arts degree in museum science at Texas Tech University in 1977.
Before taking his current position, Price spent nearly twenty- ve years in the museum profession. He served as executive director of the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas (1982–1986); the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center in Oklahoma City (1987–1996); and the Bu alo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming (1996–2001).
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); e 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 non ction, and the 2009 Joan Patterson Kerr Award from the Western History Association for the best illustrated book on the American West. Recently, Price co-curated the exhibit Picturing Indian Territory, 1819–1907, and he is the editor of and contributor to the accompanying exhibition catalogue.
In addition to his published works, he has served as a consultant for several television series and specials including “Unsolved History: e Gun ght at the OK Corral,” “Cowboy Tech,” “Cowboys and Outlaws” on the History and Discovery Channels, and “Cowboys of the Tall Grass” and “Treasures
of the Gilcrease: Charles M. Russell” for Oklahoma Public Television.
1⁄ThE C.m. ruSSELL hEriTAGE AwArd
e C.M. Russell Heritage Award recognizes signi cant contributions in interpreting and documenting the legacy, culture, life, and country of Charles M. Russell’s West. It is awarded annually by the C.M. Russell Museum in art history, artistic merit, musical achievement, Western storytelling, preservation, or conservation.
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