" Bacone College is well known for its contributions to Native American art through its continuing legacy of outstanding Native American artists who have collectively created what is known as the Bacone School of Art by serving as instructors and directors of the Art Department. Acee Blue Eagle became the first director in 1935. Woodrow “Woody” Crumbo, Dick West, and Chief Terry Saul followed him." From an Encyclopedia of North American Indians, "During the Kennedy administration, established and emerging Indian artists received heightened visibility, beginning with the commissioning of a work for the new president's inauguration by the Creek painter Solomon McCombs. McCombs, like other artists of his generation such as the painters Fred Beaver (Creek-Seminole) and Archie Blackowl (Cheyenne), was schooled in the "traditional Indian painting" technique at Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Its arts programs were run from the 1930s into the 1970s by the senior painters Acee Blue Eagle (Creek), Woody Crumbo (Potawatomi-Creek), and Terry Saul (Choctaw-Chickasaw), and the painter-sculptor W. Richard West, Sr. (Cheyenne), who also taught at another arts center, the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas, and who revived the art of Plains wood sculpture."