[4] Cecil Dick became the first Native American to win the Oklahoma Artists Exhibition at Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa.
In 1991, the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in Muskogee, Oklahoma named the "Cecil Dick Master of Heritage Award" in his honor.
Cecil died in 1992 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, having spent over 50 years recording Cherokee culture and history in his art.
[1] In 1996, a group of Talequah physicians donated an original Dick acrylic mural to the Cherokee Nation.
Titled "The Curing of the Fever," it portrays Cherokee healing practices before the initial contact with white men.