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Proud to Be Chickasaw oklahoma state university and the best professors inAmong Oklahoma painters, Mike Larsen is a living legend. His workfrom a twenty six foot mural in the Oklahoma state capitol to a painting appearing on the U. S. postage stamp honoring the Oklahoma centennialis visible and prominent. In 2005, leaders of the Chickasaw Nation commissioned Larsen to create twenty four oil portraits of living Chickasaw elders. After those paintings were completed, the Chickasaws commissioned a second series of twenty four