1/14/2012 - 4/1/2012
Left: Charlie Parker Played Be Bop, © Chris Raschka
Celebrate jazz legends Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, and John Coltrane and enjoy other stories illustrated with the splashes of color, energetic shapes, and rhythmic lines that are the hallmark of Chris Raschka's style.
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10/1/2011 - 1/15/2012
Left: Across the Continent: “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way,” artist: Frances F. Palmer, Currier & Ives, 1868, Corporate Collection of ConAgra Foods, Inc.
This exhibition of 31 Currier and Ives prints offers a lighthearted yet surprisingly complex picture of nineteenth-century America.
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9/24/2011 - 12/31/2011
Left: America the Beautiful (written by Katharine Lee Bates), © Wendell Minor
Reflecting his love for the land and environment, Wendell Minor’s book illustrations take us from the Everglades to the Arctic Circle, from the Midwest to the Grand Canyon, and even to the moon! Discover these and other themes in paintings from over 20 children’s books.
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9/17/2011 - 1/8/2012
Left: Joe Deal (American, 1947–2010), Missouri Plateau, 2005, carbon pigment inkjet print, © The Estate of Joe Deal, courtesy Robert Mann Gallery, New York.
This exhibition features work by a dozen photographers who have sought to create a direct and clear-eyed appraisal of the American landscape incorporating the lessons of New Topographics as well as the influence of the earliest photographers who surveyed the West in the 1860s and 1870s. Their work is not without the lyricism and affection that has always characterized American landscape photography, but they are more likely to engage local terrain — the suburbs and exurbs; the footprint of industry and development; the confines of a single river basin or valley; or the human history and cultural history within the landscape — that stands between us and the mythic horizon.
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6/25/2011 - 9/4/2011
Left: “The domino game” from The Endless Party, 1967, gouache, © Etienne Delessert
For more than 30 years, self-taught artist Etienne Delessert has been translating his — and the world’s — ideas, passions, fantasies, and nightmares into the visual language of books, magazine illustrations, posters, animated films, and paintings. He reaches both children and adults with his imaginary creatures and landscapes, juxtaposing the familiar with the fantastic, and is considered one of the fathers of modern children’s picture books.
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6/4/2011 - 8/28/2011
Left: William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825–1905), The Knitting Girl, 1869, oil on canvas, Collection of Joslyn Art Museum, Bequest of Jessie Barton Christiancy, 1931.106
Joslyn Art Museum’s collection is not only known and admired by those in Omaha who consider the museum their own, but is respected by institutions worldwide. A quick look at the itinerary of our most popular works over the past years would make even the most seasoned traveler jealous — requested for over three dozen exhibitions, objects from the Joslyn collection have toured from coast to coast as well as to Europe. Joslyn Treasures: Well Traveled and Rarely Seen reunites these familiar and important favorites with highlights from the vaults to showcase forty works from antiquity through the twentieth century.
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2/19/2011 - 6/9/2011
Left: The Houdini Box (detail), 1991, © Brian Selznick
Step into Brian Selznick's world with images of characters as diverse as the great Houdini, wordsmith Walt Whitman, celebrated singer Marian Anderson, and Hugo Cabret — an orphan who lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station. From Houdini to Hugo includes over 100 original drawn and painted pictures from 17 books, among them: The Houdini Box, Barnyard Prayers, Walt Whitman: Words for America, The Doll People, Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride, Our House, When Marian Sang, The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins, and Frindle.
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2/12/2011 - 5/8/2011
Left: Archangel Michael, 19th century, Ukraine, gold and silver thread, oil on paper, wood, calico, sequins, beads, Collection of the Kyiv-Pechersk Historical and Cultural Preserve
Comprising two distinct and rarely seen collections, The Glory of Ukraine is a two-part exhibition that forms an unprecedented celebration of the spiritual and national treasures of this large Eastern European nation. Icons and other religious objects from the famous churches, cathedrals, bell towers, and underground caverns of the nearly 1,000-year-old Monastery of the Caves join artifacts of ancient civilizations from the private PlaTar collection for a visually rich and historically intriguing presentation.
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10/16/2010 - 1/16/2011
Golden Kite, Golden Dreams highlights the diversity and high standards that the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) sets for Golden Kite Awards recognition.
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10/9/2010 - 1/23/2011 Prints by Currier & Ives from the corporate collection of ConAgra Foods, Inc., will present a unique and joyous view of nineteenth-century autumn and winter holidays, rural and urban landscapes, and American life.
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9/25/2010 - 1/16/2011 When Omaha artist Kent Bellows passed away prematurely in 2005, he was at the height of his technical skills, producing delicately rendered pencil, graphite, and charcoal drawings and meticulously detailed paintings, most often of friends and family, that masterfully capture the "reality" of the observed world.
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8/7/2010 - 9/26/2010 This exhibition celebrates Albert Paley's diverse and significant body of work, his virtuosity as a monumental sculptor, and the completion and dedication of Odyssey, Paley's gateway into Iowa on Interstate 80 at S. 24th Street in Council Bluffs, Iowa, near the Missouri River border with neighboring Omaha. Odyssey was commissioned by the Iowa West Foundation as part of their nationally acclaimed Public Art Initiative.
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7/31/2010 - 10/17/2010
Space Silence Spirit offers a rare opportunity to view artworks by Maynard Dixon (1875-1946), one of the greatest 20th-century artists of the American West. This is the first exhibition devoted to Dixon's art to be shown in our area.
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7/17/2010 - 10/3/2010 Renowned for the extraordinary range and depth of his talent, Ashley Bryan is an artist, writer, anthologist, storyteller, and scholar of African and African American folklore, poetry, and spirituals.
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6/5/2010 - 9/12/2010
Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism is a captivating exhibition of 38 paintings, including many of the finest examples of mid nineteenth- through early twentieth-century French and American landscape in the Brooklyn Museum's collection.
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4/24/2010 - 7/3/2010 Dream weaver, tale spinner, portrayer of visions, and interpreter of the human spirit: Gerald McDermott is all of these and more. Through bold, graphic renderings of timeless tales from around the world, McDermott communicates a deep understanding of the transformative power of myth. His work is an evocation of the human quest for unity and completeness.
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2/6/2010 - 5/16/2010
Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild presents 60 photographs from the new book by Nebraska native Michael Forsberg, an internationally known conservation photographer. Forsberg's spectacular images provide unparalleled encounters with the wild creatures and the breathtaking landscapes of one of the world's great grasslands, a 1-million-square-mile network of ecosystems stretching from Canada to Mexico.
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