Today, we celebrate one of Oklahoma’s greatest artists, Harold Holden, who died this week a year ago, on December 6, 2023.

He was called just “H” by his friends. A self-taught sculptor, he became the icon who created icons all across our fine state.

A Will Rogers sculpture at Will Rogers International Airport? It’s a Harold Holden. A Cowboy in Oklahoma City’s Stockyards City? Yes, that, too. The Broncho at the University of Central Oklahoma? The Bison at Oklahoma Baptist University? The Ranger at Northwestern Oklahoma University. Frank “Pistol Pete” Eaton at Oklahoma State University. All of the above.