Oklahoma
decade
1930s
1936
Jerry McMillan is born in Oklahoma City.
1937
Joe Goode is born in Oklahoma City.
decade
1940s
1942
Ed Ruscha’s family moves to Oklahoma City.
1940s 1942
Joe Goode and Ed Ruscha become neighbors in Oklahoma City. In the second grade they become classmates and friends at Rosary Elementary School. They attend the same church, St. Francis of Assisi, and take art classes together.
1940s 1945
Mason Williams grows up dividing his time between living with his father in Oklahoma City and his mother in Oregon.
decade
1950s
1950s 1952
Joe Goode and Jerry McMillan are classmates and friends at Taft Junior High School in Oklahoma City.
1953
Friends Joe Goode, Jerry McMillan, and Ed Ruscha take art classes at Classen High School in Oklahoma City.
1956
Mason Williams graduates high school in Oklahoma City.
1957
Mason Williams moves back to Oklahoma to major in music at Oklahoma City University.
1958
On a return visit to Oklahoma in 1958, Ed Ruscha reads Jack Kerouac’s On the Road.
1958–60 1958
At Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, Joe Goode, Jerry McMillan, and Ed Ruscha meet and befriend fellow Okies Patrick Blackwell and Don Moore. They refer to themselves as the “Students Five.”
1958
On a winter trip back from Los Angeles to Oklahoma City, Ed Ruscha convinces Jerry McMillan to come to Los Angeles for school, which then motivates Joe Goode to also head west and pursue his artistic career.
decade
1960s
1960
The Oklahoma City Art Center organizes the group exhibition Four Oklahoma Artists featuring Patrick Blackwell, Joe Goode, Jerry McMillan, and Ed Ruscha.
decade
1980s
1989
Joe Goode, Jerry McMillan, and Ed Ruscha are featured in a three-person exhibition at the Oklahoma City Art Museum.
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