Harold Holden Interview, a Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project

Sculptor Harold Holden was interviewed on March 5, 2008 in his studio in Kremlin, Oklahoma, by Chuck Rand, Dickinson Research Center Director. Curator of Art Ed Muno videotaped the interview which includes a segment on Holdens wife Edna Mae and her managerial activities. Holden has completed 20 life-size or larger public sculptures to date. In 2001 he received the Oklahoma Governors Arts Award and in 2004 he was elected to professional membership in the National Sculpture Society. Holden created the sculpture of Will Rogers displayed at the Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City.

Film clips are from an interview with artist Harold Holden as part of the A. Keith Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project. The full interview is available for viewing in the Donald C. & Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

The A. Keith Brodkin Project facilitates the collection, preservation, and accessibility of primary resources such as personal papers, studio ephemera, photographs, libraries, and other items which are often overlooked and lost to posterity and which reflect the artists life and career. Additional resources are acquired through personal oral histories via recorded interviews. Collecting these resources effectively preserves artists careers for posterity and provides future artists, art historians, educators, and researchers with documentary evidence.

Please visit these websites:
The A. Keith Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project:
http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/research/cms/Projects/AKeithBrodkinWester...

Donald C. & Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center:
http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/research/

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum:
http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/

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