# Gregory Gerrer

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This article is about Reverend Gregory Gerrer. For the Chassidic dynasty, see [Ger (Hasidic dynasty)](/source/Ger_(Hasidic_dynasty)).

**Rev. Gregory Gerrer,** [OSB](/source/Order_of_Saint_Benedict) (July 23, 1867 – August 24, 1946) was a Benedictine Priest at [Sacred Heart Abbey](/source/Sacred_Heart,_Oklahoma) (later, [St. Gregory's Abbey](/source/St._Gregory's_Abbey_(Oklahoma))), artist, art historian and museum founder.[1]

## Art career

From 1900 to 1904, Gerrer studied art in Rome. Shortly after the election of [Pope Pius X](/source/Pope_Pius_X), Gerrer participated in a competition of artists to paint the official portrait of the new pope.[2] When Pius saw the finished portrait by Gerrer, he selected it to be his portrait. Pius said that he choose it because the artist painted him true to life and did not minimize his facial warts.

Gerrer also painted portraits of two World War I [Choctaw code talkers](/source/Choctaw_code_talkers): [Otis Leader](/source/Otis_Leader) and [Joseph Oklahombi](/source/Joseph_Oklahombi).[3]

The largest collection of his paintings is at the [Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art](/source/Mabee-Gerrer_Museum_of_Art) in [Shawnee, Oklahoma](/source/Shawnee,_Oklahoma). Gerrer founded the museum in 1919 and it was later renamed in his honor.[4] His work is also in the [Vatican](/source/Holy_See) art collection, Rome, [Snite Museum of Art](/source/Snite_Museum_of_Art) in South Bend, Indiana, and [Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art](/source/Fred_Jones_Jr._Museum_of_Art) in [Norman, Oklahoma](/source/Norman,_Oklahoma).

Gerrer was a co-founder and first president of the Association of Oklahoma Artists.

## Notable portraits

- [Pope Pius X](/source/Pope_Pius_X)
- [Joseph Oklahombi](/source/Joseph_Oklahombi)
- [Otis Leader](/source/Otis_Leader)
- [John Benjamin Murphy](/source/John_Benjamin_Murphy)[5]

## Honors

Gerrer was inducted into the [Oklahoma Hall of Fame](/source/Oklahoma_Hall_of_Fame) in 1931.

The [University of Notre Dame](/source/University_of_Notre_Dame) conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws degree to Gerrer.

## References

1. ["Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art"](https://www.okmuseums.org/museum/). *About Father Gregory*. Retrieved 2 June 2024.

1. ["Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture"](http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/G/GE011.html). *Gerrer, Gregory*. Retrieved 29 November 2011.

1. Murphey, Joseph (1874). *Tenacious Monks*. St. Gregory's Abbey, Shawnee, OK: Benedictine Color Press. pp. 422–425.

1. ["Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art"](https://www.mgmoa.org/history/). Retrieved 2 June 2024.

1. Gerrer, Gregory. *Catalogue of the Whitman Memorial Art Gallery*. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame. pp. 19, 20.

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