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Article: Keesee Turns Art Fascination into Tour
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- October 29, 1994
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It was back in 1988 that Christian Keesee, chairman of
American Bancorp of Edmond, first visited Moscow with a group of
U.S. business leaders. He was intrigued with the art that was
emerging in the Soviet Union amid Gorbachov's "glasnost" policy.
He returned in 1990 to visit museums, and this time he
returned with a determination to share with others his
"fascination" with the works of "new" Russian artists. So he
talked with Christopher Youngs, then director of the Oklahoma
City Art Museum, and Jon Burris, curator of the Robert A. Hefner
Collection of Contemporary Chinese Paintings.
"I told Chris he could share the works of young Russian
artists by putting together a good ...