9/10/2024 - 3/6/2024
In the galleries of the Scott Pavilion, the Joslyn will be proud to present an exhibition of new work by Kehinde Wiley. Inspired by historical works in the Joslyn’s collection of European art, Kehinde Wiley: Omaha will feature a series of portraits specific to the diverse communities of Omaha.
Left: Kehinde Wiley; Photo Brad Ogbonna
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2/5/2022 - 5/1/2022
Left: Allison Janae Hamilton (American, born 1984), All the Stars Appointed to Their Places (detail), 2021, archival pigment print, framed: 40 7/8 x 60 7/8 in.,
© Allison Janae Hamilton, Courtesy the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen
Working across media, Allison Janae Hamilton (American, born 1984) brings together place-based folklore and personal family anecdotes to create mythologies that address the changing social and physical landscapes of the American South. Her exhibition will be a compact, midcareer survey comprising work that responds to her home region of North Florida.
A Karen and Doug Riley Contemporary Artists Project (CAP) Gallery exhibition.
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1/15/2022 - 4/17/2022
Left: Yuyi Morales, "Someday we will become something we haven't even imagined" (detail) from Dreamers, 2018, digital print, © Yuyi Morales
This exhibition features over 60 artworks from 14 picture books by award-winning author-illustrator Yuyi Morales, including paintings and digital prints (capturing the artist’s handmade puppets and “scenery”) from the Caldecott Honor book Viva Frida and Dreamers, Morales’s own immigration story and tribute to the transformative power of hope and reading.
A Mind’s Eye Gallery exhibition. Organized by the National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature (Abilene, TX).
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10/27/2021 - 5/1/2022
Left: Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723–1792), Portrait of Miss Franks, 1766, oil on canvas, 30 ¼ x 25 ¼ in., Gift of Mrs. Sarah Joslyn, 1934.42. Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019.
Sir Joshua Reynold’s portrait of a young woman was first exhibited at the Museum in 1931, on loan from founder Sarah Joslyn. She gifted the painting to the Joslyn Memorial in 1934.
Featuring a graphic timeline, highlights from across the permanent collection, and architectural renderings, Ninety Years of Joslyn Art Museum brings to life the remarkable stories of the formation and evolution of the Museum as it celebrates its 90th anniversary.
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10/2/2021 - 5/1/2022
Left: Karl Bodmer (Swiss, 1809–1893), Péhriska-Rúhpa, Hidatsa Man,
1834, watercolor and graphite on paper, 17 1/8 x 11 15/16 inches.
Joslyn Art Museum, Gift of the Enron Art Foundation, 1986.49.275.
Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019.
Faces from the Interior is the first Museum project to focus exclusively on Karl Bodmer’s watercolor portraits of Native Americans. The exhibition features over sixty recently conserved watercolors, drawn entirely from Joslyn Art Museum’s renowned Maximilian-Bodmer collection. This includes portraits of individuals from Omaha, Yankton, Lakota, Mandan, Hidatsa, Assiniboine, and Blackfoot tribes, among many Native communities encountered by Maximilian and Bodmer during their travels along the Missouri River from Saint Louis to Fort McKenzie, in present-day Montana.
This exhibition will have a ticket fee. $10 general public adults; $5
college students with ID; free for Joslyn members and youth ages 17 and
younger.
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10/2/2021 - 1/2/2022
Left: Guy Goldstein (Israeli, born 1974), Der Sekundenmacher, 2020, single-channel video, Duration: 10 min. 21 sec., Courtesy the artist, © Guy Goldstein
Guy Goldstein maintains a hybrid practice as a multimedia artist and musician. Exploring the
shifting relationship between sound and image, Goldstein considers how sonic and visual
experiences overlap and inform one another.
A Karen and Doug Riley Contemporary Artists Project (CAP) Gallery exhibition.
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6/5/2021 - 9/5/2021
Left: Paul T. Frankl, designer (American, born Austria, 1887–1958), Warren Telechron Company, manufacturer (Ashland, Massachusetts, 1926–1992), Modernique Clock, 1928, chromium-plated and enameled metal, molded Bakelite, brush-burnished silver, Collection Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, Denver, Gift of Michael Merson, 2010.0670. Courtesy of Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, Denver. Photo by Wes Magyar.
American Art Deco: Designing for the People, 1918–1939 investigates a dynamic period in American history and culture when the country and its citizens went through political, economic, social, and artistic transformation and revolution. From stylish decorative art objects to products of industrial design, modern American paintings to compelling photographic images, the multi-media works of art in this exhibition reflect both the glamour and optimism of the 1920s and the devastation and escapism of the 1930s.
Organized by Joslyn Art Museum and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City,
MO.
This exhibition will have a ticket fee. $10 general public adults; $5
college students with ID; free for Joslyn members and youth ages 17 and
younger.
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6/5/2021 - 9/5/2021
Left: Diedrick Brackens (American, born 1989), grief has no gills, 2020, woven cotton and acrylic yarn, 81 x 79 in., © Diedrick Brackens. Courtesy the artist and Various Small Fires, Los Angeles/Seoul
Drawing on textile and weaving traditions from across the Americas, Africa, and Europe, Diedrick Brackens creates intricate tapestries that interrogate personal stories and shared cultural experiences. Formally rooted in postwar American art movements, Brackens’ compositions fuse the language of abstraction with narrative-driven figuration.
A Karen and Doug Riley Contemporary Artists Project (CAP) Gallery exhibition.
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1/30/2021 - 4/25/2021
Left: Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke, born 1981), The Indian Congress, 2021, mixed media installation.
Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke, born 1981) works across media to explore the intersections of Native American ideologies and colonialist structures, both historically and in contemporary society. Her installations and photographic practice build upon years of research in photographic archives and museum collections of historical Apsáalooke artwork.
A Karen and Doug Riley Contemporary Artists Project (CAP) Gallery exhibition.
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11/21/2020 - 4/11/2021
Left: George Henry Durrie (American, 1820–1863) Winter in the Country.
A Cold Morning, 1864, lithograph, Gift of Conagra Brands, 2016.20.417
In 2016, ConAgra Foods, Inc. (now Conagra Brands) donated nearly 600 Currier & Ives lithographs to Joslyn Art
Museum. Revisiting America: The Prints of Currier & Ives sheds new light on the famous
firm’s artistic and commercial practices, revealing the complex social relationships and
surprising modernity of its lavish prints, which found their way into the homes of tens of
thousands of Americans in the nineteenth century.
This exhibition will have a ticket fee. $10 general public adults; $5
college students with ID; free for Joslyn members and youth ages 17 and
younger.
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9/19/2020 - 1/3/2021
Left: Tuan Andrew Nguyen (Vietnamese, b. 1976), The Boat People, 2020, single-channel video, 4k, Super 16mm transferred to digital, color, 5.1 surround sound, 20 mins. Co-produced by Bellas Artes Projects and James Cohan, New York. © Tuan Andrew Nguyen 2020. Image courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York.
A masterful storyteller, Tuan Andrew Nguyen (Vietnamese, b. 1976) weaves together historical narratives with supernatural elements in his sculptures and videos. A Karen and Doug Riley Contemporary Artists Project (CAP) Gallery exhibition.
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6/6/2020 - 6/6/2020
Due to circumstances surrounding the mitigation of COVID-19, these exhibitions at Joslyn have been canceled.
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3/7/2020 - 5/17/2020
Left: Decisions, digital photography, Sarah Al-Hilfy Leon, Lincoln Southeast High School (Lincoln, NE), grade 12
This national traveling exhibition of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards showcases
exceptional drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, video, and works of writing, created
by teens from all across the country. A Mind’s Eye Gallery exhibition.
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2/8/2020 - 10/18/2020
Left: John Divola (American, born 1949), On the Occasion of My 60th Birthday, 2009, archival pigment print, 59 3/4 x 96 7/8 in., Museum purchase with funds from the James Art Acquisition Fund, 2017.4
Photography met the twenty-first century in a precarious position – more ubiquitous than at
any point in its history, yet fundamentally less believable. Ranging from images exposed on
film and printed in a darkroom to compositions constructed from multiple digital captures,
these photographs subvert our assumptions about their subjects in surprising ways.
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2/8/2020 - 6/30/2020
Left: Amy Cutler, Clementine, 2018, graphite on paper, 30 x 22 in, © Amy Cutler, Courtesy Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects
In Amy Cutler’s drawings, uncanny and often impossible scenarios unfold in stunning detail.
A skilled draughtsman, Cutler calls upon transformative personal life experiences to process
the collision of the inner psyche and the outside world. A Riley CAP Gallery exhibition.
May 10, 2020, is the closing date of this
exhibition in the galleries. We have adjusted the listed end date online
to keep all of the details live on the web for you to enjoy from home.
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10/5/2019 - 1/19/2020
Left: Psalms Frontispiece, Donald Jackson, © 2004, The Saint John’s Bible, Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, USA.
Featuring the first handwritten illuminated Bible commissioned by a Benedictine Monastery since the fifteenth century, The Saint John’s Bible incorporates contemporary imagery and events to connect traditional medieval craftsmanship with the twenty-first century.
Exhibition organized by Joslyn Art Museum and Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota.
This exhibition will have a ticket fee. $10 general public adults; $5 college students with ID; free for Joslyn members and youth ages 17 and younger.
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10/5/2019 - 1/19/2020
Left: Paul Anthony Smith (Jamaican, born 1988), Untitled, 7 Women, 2019, unique picotage on inkjet print, colored pencil, spray paint on museum board, 40 x 50 in., © Paul Anthony Smith. Image courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
Drawing on the art historical traditions of Pointilism and Geometric Abstraction, Paul Anthony Smith creates "picotages," named for a pattern printing technique that entails pressing textured blocks onto fabric. Trained in ceramics, Smith uses sharp, wooden tools to stipple the surfaces of photographs he has taken in New York City and Jamaica that examine the African and Caribbean diasporas. Having emigrated to the United States from his native Jamaica, Smith has long been captivated by the concept of hybrid identity–often experienced acutely by those who have migrated across borders–while mining the fraught intersections of place, memory, and dislocation. By incising his images, Smith references several cultural traditions, including African tribal masking and scarification, in which the skin is cut, leaving indelible patterns on the body. Just as these practices alter appearances, Smith's interventions complicate the surfaces of his photographs and, at times, even completely obscure portions of the images, calling into question their authority as representations of "truth." A Riley CAP Gallery exhibition.
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8/24/2019 - 2/9/2020
Left: "Then one night the quilt was done." from Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, 1993, oil on paper, © James E. Ransome
This exhibition includes picture book illustrations celebrating inspiring stories of unknown characters, as well as individuals who made history, like Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Louis Armstrong. A Mind’s Eye Gallery exhibition.
Organized by National Center for Children's Illustrated
Literature (Abilene, TX) and sponsored at Joslyn Art Museum by Cynthia Epstein and David Wiesman.
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6/1/2019 - 9/8/2019
Left: Designed and Manufactured by Vivian Beer (b. 1977), Penland, NC, Current, 2004; Photo by Douglas J. Eng
Pulling this familiar everyday object out from under the desk and dining table, The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design surprises us with the imaginative style and creativity found in this seemingly humble piece of furniture.
The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design is organized by the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, in collaboration with the
Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen, Ph.D. Foundation and is toured by
International Arts & Artists, Washington, D.C.
This exhibition will have a ticket fee. $10 general public adults; $5 college students with ID (tickets for those with a UNMC student ID are free; free weekend for all college students: Auust 24 and 25); free for Joslyn members and youth ages 17 and younger.
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6/1/2019 - 9/8/2019
Left: Jay Heikes (American, born 1975), Mother Sky, 2018, oil on canvas, 47 1/8 x 65 1/8 in., Courtesy the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen, © Jay Heikes. Photo credit: Object Studies
Jay Heikes’ diverse practice engages a range of traditional media, including graphite, oil paint, and bronze, as well as found materials, such as dirt, rocks, and sheet music. Often conceiving strange or unexpected pairings of these and other materials, Heikes questions the relationships among the substances that make up the universe, an inquiry that stems from his lifelong interest in the natural sciences. A Riley CAP Gallery exhibition.
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5/4/2019 - 8/11/2019
Left: Cover for Home for a Bunny, 1956, gouache and watercolor on illustration board, © Garth Williams
See work by Garth Williams (1912-1996), illustrator of dozens of children’s classics, including E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s The Little House series, and many Golden Books. A Mind’s Eye Gallery exhibition.
Organized by National Center for Children's
Illustrated Literature (Abilene, TX). Sponsored by Cynthia Epstein and David Wiesman.
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2/2/2019 - 5/5/2019
Left: Rashid Johnson (b. 1977, Chicago, IL), The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club (Thurgood), 2008, Lambda print, 65 x 55 1/2 in., Courtesy of the Rubell Family Collection, Miami. Photo by Chi Lam.
This exhibition brings together over 60 works by contemporary African American artists focusing on important issues of racial, gender, and sexual identity; ongoing narratives of racial inequality in the United States; poverty; racial stereotyping; and the power of protest. Through painting, photography, works on paper, sculpture, installation, and video, these nationally and internationally recognized black artists offer a challenging account of race in the United States and how our shared history continues to shape the ways we interact and engage with our fellow citizens today.
This exhibition will have a ticket fee. $10 general public adults; $5
college students with ID (tickets for those with a UNMC student ID are free); free for Joslyn members and youth ages 17 and
younger. Free First Weekends (30 Americans admission is free to all the first weekend of each month).
An exhibition from the Rubell Family Collection.
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2/2/2019 - 5/5/2019
Left: Fred Tomaselli (American, b. 1956), Oct. 12, 2018, 2018, gouache, collage, and archival inkjet print on watercolor paper, 11 5/8 x 12 3/4 in., © Fred Tomaselli. Image Courtesy of James Cohan, New York.
Fred Tomaselli’s newspaper paintings transform front pages of The New York Times into lively abstractions. Featuring complex patterns, these compositions ponder the absurdity of news cycles and allow Tomaselli to respond to a range of important contemporary issues. A Riley CAP Gallery exhibition.
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1/19/2019 - 4/28/2019
Left: Cover for The Day the Crayons Quit, 2013, mixed media, gouache, crayon, and pencil on watercolor paper, © Oliver Jeffers
This exhibition chronicles Oliver Jeffers’ development and success as a children’s book artist, including illustrations from The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home, both The New York Times #1 Best Sellers. A Mind’s Eye Gallery exhibition.
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10/6/2018 - 1/6/2019
Left: Ellen Fullard Wright, Applique and Pieced Star of Bethlehem and Ships Wheel Quilt with Baskets and Birds, late 19th century, pieced, appliquéd, and quilted cotton, 95 x 73 in., Collection of Shelburne Museum, Museum purchase, 1991
Pattern and Purpose brings together thirty-two masterpieces made between the first decades of the 1800s and the turn of the twenty-first century, ranging from early whole-cloth quilts, carefully-pieced Lemoyne stars, and embroidered botanical “best quilts” to more recent “art quilts” by contemporary makers. Bold in design and pattern, they reveal their maker’s skill — from complex geometric designs that would feel at home in a gallery of Pop Art to delicate patterns drawn from nature.
This exhibition will have a ticket fee. $10 general public adults; $5
college students with ID; free for Joslyn members and youth ages 17 and
younger.
Organized by Shelburne Museum.
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10/6/2018 - 1/6/2019
Left: Andrew J. Russell (American, 1830-1902), East and West Shaking Hands at Laying Last Rail, 1869, albumen print, Courtesy Union Pacific Railroad Museum
Celebrate the 150th anniversary of the “Meeting of the Rails” at Promontory Summit, Utah in 1869 through photographs and stereographs of Andrew Joseph Russell and Alfred A. Hart. Organized with the Union Pacific Railroad Museum, this exhibition traces the construction of the transcontinental railroad across the American West.
This exhibition is organized by Union Pacific, in partnership with
Joslyn Art Museum and the Union Pacific Museum, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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10/6/2018 - 1/6/2019
Left: Richard Mosse. Photo by Bjoern Behrens, courtesy the artist.
Through a conceptual approach to documentary photography, Richard Mosse (Irish, b. 1980) studies localized conflicts that have broad social, political, and humanitarian implications. His most well-known work employs photographic methods or materials originally developed for the military, such as reconnaissance infrared film. Joslyn’s exhibition will feature a selection of works from Mosse’s recent series, The Castle, which chronicles the refugee crisis that has gripped Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa over the last several years. The Castle documents refugee camps and staging sites using a powerful telephoto military-grade camera that can detect thermal radiation, including body heat, at a great distance. Mosse uses the camera against its intended purpose of border and combat surveillance to map landscapes of human displacement. Reading heat as both metaphor and index, these images reveal the migrants’ struggle for survival that is witnessed, yet still ignored by many.
A Riley CAP Gallery exhibition.
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9/22/2018 - 12/30/2018
Left: Cover art for Brave Girl, 2013, watercolor and gouache, © Melissa Sweet.
Organized by National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature (Abilene, TX) and sponsored at Joslyn Art Museum by Fran & Rich Juro and Cynthia Epstein & David Wiesman.
Melissa Sweet has illustrated over 100 books as well as many toys, puzzles, and games. She garnered Caldecott Honors for Jen Bryant’s A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams and The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus. She authored and illustrated Carmine: A Little More Red; Tupelo Rides the Rails; Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade; and, most recently, Some Writer! The Story of E. B. White, a New York Times Best Illustrated book. A Mind's Eye Gallery exhibition.
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6/2/2018 - 9/9/2018
Left: Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641), Dorothy, Lady Dacre, ca. 1633, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 in.,The Berger
Collection at the Denver Art Museum.
Discover fifty masterworks from the most significant private collection of British art in the
United States, housed at the Denver Art Museum. Devotional images, history paintings,
portraits, landscapes, and sporting scenes by renowned artists, including Anthony van
Dyck, Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable, and John Singer Sargent, trace the
unique and captivating development of painting in England over six centuries.
This exhibition will have a ticket fee. $10 general public adults; $5 college students with ID; free for Joslyn members and youth ages 17 and younger.
Organized by the
Denver Art Museum. The exhibition is made possible by the Berger Collection Educational Trust.
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6/2/2018 - 9/9/2018
Left: Arlene Shechet (b. 1951), Long Form, 2017, glazed
ceramic, wood, painted steel, 46-1/2 x 28 x 14 in., © Arlene Shechet, courtesy Pace Gallery; photo: Phoebe d'Heurle
Arlene Shechet’s (American, b. 1951) whimsical, mixed-media sculptures question the boundaries of decorative arts by resisting conventional techniques for working with ceramics. Her objects frequently introduce materials not typically joined with ceramic, such as steel and wood. These unusual pairings reflect Shechet’s interest in conflating sculpture and base, and provide the opportunity to explore surface texture, shape, and color. Chromatic experimentation is particularly important for Shechet, whose masterful glazing offsets her intentionally imperfect compositions.
A Riley CAP Gallery exhibition.
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5/19/2018 - 8/19/2018
Left: Cover art for How Do Dinosaurs Go to School?, 2007, acrylic, © Mark Teague
A showcase of original art from author-illustrator Mark Teague’s How Do Dinosaurs
series, the La Rue stories, and many more picture books that find humor in the everyday
events of childhood. A Mind’s Eye Gallery exhibition.
Organized by National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature (Abilene, TX).
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2/3/2018 - 5/6/2018
Left: Ed Ruscha (American, b. 1937), Lion in Oil, 2002, synthetic polymer on canvas with tape, 64 3/16 x 72 1/8 in., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Promised gift of the Fisher Landau Center for Art; Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian, © Ed Ruscha
The first major exhibition featuring Ed Ruscha in his home state of Nebraska, Word/Play
brings together prints, photographs, and artist books dating from the 1960s through
2014, complemented by a selection of major paintings. An important early figure in
Conceptual Art, Ruscha deftly combines imagery and text. At turns poignant, provocative,
and confounding, Ruscha’s use of the written word is a signature element of his work.
This exhibition will have a ticket fee. $10 general public adults; $5 college
students with ID; free for Joslyn members, and youth ages 17 and younger.
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2/3/2018 - 5/6/2018
Left: John Divola (American, b. 1949), Dark Star B, 2008, archival pigment print on rag paper, 40 x 50 in., © John Divola. Courtesy Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles
Born in California in 1949, John Divola has disrupted traditional expectations about photography for the past forty years. Featuring six works from his 2008 series, Dark Star, this compact installation touches on the central themes of the artist’s practice, capturing Divola’s interventions — in this case, discs he spray painted on the walls of abandoned homes outside of Los Angeles — in a series of haunting images.
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1/27/2018 - 4/29/2018
Left: "The Ox and the Frog," from The Fables of
Aesop and Others Translated into Human Nature, 1857, designed and drawn on the wood by Charles H. Bennett, engraved by Swain, handcolored by the publisher (Hardbound. London: W. Kent & Co.).
An exhibition of a dozen fables represented by objects and artifacts showing varied
approaches to each timeless tale. Visit www.creighton.edu to learn about a companion
exhibition. A Mind’s Eye Gallery exhibition.
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10/14/2017 - 1/14/2018
Left: Cover art for Locomotive, 2013, pen and ink, watercolor, acrylic, and gouache, © Brian Floca
A retrospective exhibition of original art from
Caldecott Medal-winning artist Brian Floca. See illustrations from
more than twenty children’s books, including The Racecar Alphabet,
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, Locomotive, and Elizabeth, Queen
of the Seas.
Organized by National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature (Abilene, TX) and sponsored at Joslyn Art Museum by Fran and Rich Juro.
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10/7/2017 - 1/7/2018
Organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Left: Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri; Italian, Bologna, 1591-1666), Hercules, 1641-1642, pen and brown ink, 7-1/4 x 6-3/4 in., Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Drawings, watercolors, oil sketches, and pastels dating from the Middle Ages to the present day reveal the distinct hand and inspired touch of the most important artists from the past five centuries. Examples from Guercino, Tiepolo, Delacroix, Degas, Kollwitz, Nolde, Hopper, and Ruscha, among others, provide extraordinary views into the creative process.
This exhibition will have a ticket fee: $10 for adults, $5 for college students with valid ID (tickets for those with a UNMC student ID are free). Free for members and youth ages 17
and younger. Free weekend for all college students (with valid ID): November 4 & 5, 2017. Join today to see it free!
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10/7/2017 - 1/7/2018
Left: Svenja Deininger (born 1974, Vienna, Austria), Untitled, 2014, oil
on canvas, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Marianne
Boesky Gallery, New York. © Svenja Deininger
Svenja Deininger’s elegant, intimate canvases offer
a unique brand of cool abstraction. Through an
arduous process that involves repetitive coating,
scraping, varnishing, and stripping, Deininger
achieves layered surfaces that slowly reveal the
secrets of their making. Balancing bold hues with
variations on white, her paintings contemplate
the singular power of color. A Riley Contemporary
Artists Project (CAP) Gallery exhibition.
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6/4/2017 - 9/10/2017
Exhibition produced by the Petit Palais, City of Paris Fine Art Museum, Paris Musées, in association with the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN and Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE.
Left: Lucien Falize (1829-1897), Neo-Renaissance Pendant,
c. 1880, gold, diamonds, tourmaline, pearl, enamel, 7.7 x 4.8 cm, Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris © Petit Palais / Roger-Viollet
Bijoux Parisiens explores the intersection of French fashion, art, and history through nearly 70 works of jewelry and over 100 original design paintings, fashion prints, and photographs. Elegant brooches, necklaces, and bracelets forged from precious materials reflect the same aesthetic, social, and political concerns that drove major artists from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century.
This exhibition will have a ticket fee. Free for members, youth ages 17 and younger, & college students with ID. See it first and see it free - click here to become a member today!
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6/3/2017 - 9/10/2017
Left: Janet Biggs (American, born 1959), A Step on the Sun, 2012, single-channel HD video, 16:9 format, 9:05 minutes, edition 2
of 5 + 2 AP. Courtesy the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York.
Janet Biggs creates videos, photographs, and performances that study the capacity of the human body to withstand intense physical demands. Her recent work has taken her to some of the most extreme environments in the world, including the Arctic Circle, a desert in China, and northern Ethiopia. A Riley CAP Gallery exhibition.
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4/29/2017 - 9/17/2017
Left: Study "Away roared the motorboat," The Glorious Flight, 1983, watercolor and gouache on illustration
board, © Alice and Martin Provensen
The Provensens made their mark as illustrators of such hugely popular books as The Color Kittens and A Child’s Garden of Verses. Known for their wit and contemporary design sense, their artwork deepened over the years with books like The Iliad and the Odyssey! and The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Blériot. A Mind’s Eye Gallery exhibition.
Organized by National Center for Children's
Illustrated Literature (Abilene, TX) and sponsored
at Joslyn Art Museum by Fran and Rich Juro.
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2/12/2017 - 5/7/2017
This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Left: Alexander Pope (American, 1849-1924), The Wild Swan, 1900, oil on canvas, 57 x 44 1/2 inches, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Museum purchase, gifts from members of the Boards of Trustees, The M.H. de Young Museum Society, the Patrons of Art and Music, Friends of the Museums, and by exchange, Sir Joseph Duveen, 72.28
Wild Spaces, Open Seasons is the first major exhibition to explore American artists' fascination with hunters, fishermen, and the sporting life in paintings and sculptures from the 1820s through the 1940s. Illuminating changing ideas about place, national identity, community, wildlife, and the environment, the exhibition offers compelling new insights into these meaningful pastimes.
This exhibition will have a ticket fee. Free for members, youth ages 17 and younger, & college students with ID. Click here to become a member today!
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2/11/2017 - 5/7/2017
Left: Virginia Beahan (American, born 1946), Christina and Gram on Thanksgiving, New Hampshire, 2004, chromogenic development print, 18 x 23 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
In late 2002, Virginia Beahan and her husband moved her ailing 88-year-old mother into their home. Turning to her camera to help navigate this challenging situation, Beahan’s photographs of her family are a compassionate document of an alternately joyous, demanding, and painful story. A Riley CAP Gallery exhibition.
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1/14/2017 - 4/16/2017
Organized by National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature
(Abilene, TX) and sponsored at Joslyn Art Museum by Fran and Rich Juro
and Wiesman Development.
Left: "Karl and Koo drew several pictures together," from Zen Ties, 2008, watercolor and ink, © Jon Muth
See paintings by children’s book author-illustrator Jon J Muth, including works from the Caldecott Honor book, Zen Shorts; its sequel, Zen Ties; and illustrations from the folk tale Stone Soup and his Tolstoy-inspired The Three Questions.
A Mind’s Eye Gallery exhibition.
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10/9/2016 - 1/8/2017
Left: Andrew L. Moore, Yellow Porch, Sheridan County, Nebraska, 2013, © Andrew L. Moore
During the past decade, Andrew Moore made over a dozen trips to photograph along the 100th meridian, from North Dakota to the Texas panhandle. His images record vistas that can be both elegant and severe, as well as the lives of the people that have made their home in this challenging landscape.
This exhibition will have a ticket fee. Free for members, youth ages 17 and younger, & college students with ID. Join today to see it free!
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10/8/2016 - 1/8/2017
Left: Hayv Kahraman, Strip Search, 2016, oil on linen, 74 x 48 inches, © Hayv Kahraman. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Hayv Kahraman draws on sources including Renaissance painting, Japanese woodblock prints, and Persian miniatures to create work that considers the repercussions of being displaced from one's home. A Riley CAP Gallery exhibition.
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10/1/2016 - 12/31/2016
Organized by National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature (Abilene, TX) and sponsored at Joslyn Art Museum by Rich and Fran Juro.
Left: David Shannon, "Don't start yet! Seat your grandmother," from It's Christmas, David!, 2010
This Mind's Eye Gallery exhibition includes paintings and cover art for many of David Shannon's acclaimed books including No, David! (a Caldecott Honor book which he also authored) and other David stories, Alice the Fairy, Bugs in My Hair, How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball, Too Many Toys, Robot Zot!, Good Boy, Fergus!, Ducks on a Bike, A Bad Case of Stripes, Jangles: A BIG Fish Story, and others.
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6/11/2016 - 9/18/2016
Organized by National Center for Children's Illustrated
Literature (Abilene, TX).
Left: Marla Frazee, "What if you could have a star?" (detail) from Stars, 2011.
Explore the art of author-illustrator and Caldecott Honoree Marla Frazee. Watercolor and gouache paintings from All the World, A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever, Roller Coaster, Walk On!, and other books will be on view in this Mind's Eye exhibition.
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6/5/2016 - 9/4/2016
Left: Sheila Hicks, Medusa, 2009, wool, 64 x 64 x 16 inches, Artwork © Sheila Hicks, image courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Drawing on global weaving traditions, architecture, and her personal history, among many other sources, Sheila Hicks’s work in fiber reveals her remarkable understanding of color, line, and texture. One of the most significant recent exhibitions of her work, presented in her home state of Nebraska, Material Voices will feature large hanging installations, free standing sculptures, and elaborate weavings from across Hicks’s prolific career. A catalogue, published by Joslyn Art Museum, will accompany this exhibition which is slated for travel to other venues.
This exhibition will have a ticket fee. Free for members, youth ages 17 and younger, & college students with ID. Click here to become a member today!
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6/4/2016 - 9/4/2016
Left: Doug Aitken, migration (still), 2008, single video projection with billboard (steel and PVC projection screen), 24:28 minutes, © Doug Aitken, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles
For this spellbinding video, Aitken filmed animals in the incongruous setting of roadside motel rooms, reflecting the migratory patterns of wildlife and illuminating tensions between the built and natural environments. A Riley CAP Gallery exhibition.
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1/16/2016 - 5/22/2016
Organized by National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature (Abilene, TX).
Left: Cover from The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, 2012, digital, © William Joyce
This exhibition features art by author, illustrator, and Academy Award-winning animated short filmmaker William Joyce. Included are over 70 original ink, graphite, acrylic, and digital illustrations for some of Joyce’s early books - George Shrinks, A Day with Wilbur Robinson, Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo, and The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs – and featuring his recent The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore and The Guardians of Childhood book series which explores the magical world of characters like Man in the Moon, Nicholas St. North, Sandman, Toothiana, E. Aster Bunnymund, and Jack Frost. Sample preliminary sketches, a storyboard, concept art for a movie version of a book, and art from Joyce’s childhood will also be on view.
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11/15/2015 - 4/17/2016
Organized by the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.
Left: Rosa Bonheur (French, 1822-1899), Col. William F. Cody, 1889, oil on canvas, 18 ½ x 15 ¼ inches, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming, Given in memory of William R. Coe and Mai Rogers Coe, 8.66.
Few aspects of American history have had a more lasting impact than the exploration and settlement of the western frontier. Go West! considers evolving notions of the American West through 90 paintings, sculptures, and American Indian artifacts created between the 1830s and the 1920s, from the West’s earliest visual history to the creation of its powerful romantic legacy.
This exhibition will have a ticket fee. Free for members, youth ages 17 and younger, & college students with ID. Click here to become a member today!
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11/14/2015 - 4/17/2016
Left: Brad Kahlhamer. Photo by Mitch Epstein, courtesy the artist.
Brad Kahlhamer draws from a variety of sources, including Native American traditions, punk rock, graffiti, country western music, and comic books, as well as Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. He strives to create what he calls the “Third Place,” a mythological world where life and imagination co-exist. A Riley CAP Gallery exhibition.
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8/29/2015 - 1/3/2016
Organized by National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature (Abilene, TX).
Left: “Pteranodons chases bird who finds a Camarasaurus” (detail), from Time Flies, 1994, oil on paper, © Eric Rohmann
Drawings, paintings, and prints comprise this exhibition of children’s book art by author-illustrator Eric Rohmann, winner of the Caldecott Medal for My Friend Rabbit and a Caldecott Honor for the wordless Time Flies. Illustrations from those and ten other books are represented – including Bone Dog, Clara and Asha, and The Cinder-Eyed Cats – among over 70 finished artworks, sketches, storyboards, and process pieces.
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6/21/2015 - 10/11/2015
Art Seen: A Juried Exhibition of Artists from Omaha to Lincoln will showcase artists living and working in the region today. Nebraska’s two largest cities are home to vibrant and expansive artistic communities, spurred forward by an engaged and enthusiastic audience. Reflecting diverse lives and concerns, this exhibition investigates a range of media and styles and will address varied themes, including personal narrative, the social landscape, environmental issues, and contemporary approaches to painting. A total of 37 artists are featured in the exhibition, selected by a jury led by Karin Campbell, Joslyn Art Museum’s Phil Willson Curator of Contemporary Art, and Bill Arning, Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
This exhibition will have a ticket fee. Free for members, youth ages 17 and younger, & college students with ID. Join today to see it free!
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6/20/2015 - 10/11/2015
Left: Kon Trubkovich. Photo by Jesse Frohman, courtesy the artist.
Working across media, Kon Trubkovich reflects on the nature of memory and personal history. A Russian immigrant who relocated to the United States as a boy, Trubkovich is interested in the notion of the disconnections – from places, people, and experiences – that occur throughout life. A Riley CAP Gallery exhibition.
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4/11/2015 - 8/9/2015
Organized by National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature (Abilene, TX). Sponsored by an anonymous donor. An Omaha Sister Cities 50th Anniversary event.
Left: "He was surprised to see that they were two small children," from Home of the Brave, 2002, watercolor on paper, © Allen Say
Author and illustrator of more than twenty books - including Grandfather's Journey (1993), which won the Caldecott Medal in 1994 - Allen Say has spent much of his career exploring the rich divide between his Japanese youth and his American coming of age. It is his ability to convey sentiments of alienation and dislocation, in ways that speak directly to children, that makes his books so remarkable. The exhibition explores both the technical mastery and thematic complexity of this prolific artist and author.
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2/8/2015 - 5/17/2015
Organized by the Brooklyn Museum
Left: Stanton Macdonald-Wright (American, 1890-1973), Synchromy No. 3 (detail), 1917, oil on canvas, 39 x 38 in., Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Edith and Milton Lowenthal, 1992.11.24.
Between 1910 and 1960, the United States emerged as an international power, while also experiencing two world wars and the Great Depression. New technologies changed all aspects of life, while the art world witnessed dramatic transformations of its own. This exhibition explores the ways American artists including Georgia O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Stuart Davis, Rockwell Kent, and Norman Rockwell engaged the modern world.
This exhibition will have a ticket fee. Free for members, youth ages 17 and younger, & college students with ID. Join today to see it free!
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2/7/2015 - 5/17/2015
Left: Andrew Borowiec
Andrew Borowiec has been photographing the changing landscape of industrial America for more than 25 years. This Riley CAP Gallery installation features both black and white images from his Along the Ohio series and color work from his recent project, Post-Industrial Rust Belt.
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11/8/2014 - 3/29/2015
Popular among young readers, graphic novels are known for their comic format. They are generally described as “sequential art,” where a series of illustrations tell the story, but, unlike newspaper comics, they are the length of a novel and include narrative development. This exhibition features the work of Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Mark Crilley, Matt Holm, Raina Telgemeier, and Lincoln Peirce.
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10/11/2014 - 1/11/2015
From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation
Left: Andy Warhol, Mao (11.92), edition 212/250, 1972, screenprint, 36 x 36 inches, Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation;
© 2014 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Andy Warhol depicted the world with the volume turned up, challenging how we understand popular culture, politics, and consumer society. In Living Color examines how his use of color impacts both subject and viewer, creating a dialogue between Warhol and nineteen contemporary artists who all use color to shape how we understand images.
This exhibition is $10 for general public adults and free for members, youth ages 17 and younger, & college students with ID. Join today to see it free!
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10/11/2014 - 1/11/2015
Left: Orly Genger
Orly Genger (b. New York, 1979) is known for creating massive, hand-knotted rope sculptures that stem from the traditions of knitting and crocheting, while also drawing inspiration from 20th century Modernist painting, Land Art, and Minimalism. Recently, Genger has been exploring the visual language of the rope installations on a smaller scale. Working with bronze, glass, stainless steel, and aluminum, the artist has conceived intricate tabletop sculptures that read as excerpts of the larger rope pieces. This exhibition will feature ten of Genger’s cast pieces made over the last two years, as well as two painted rope sculptures.
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6/21/2014 - 9/21/2014
Left: James Nares. Photo by Elizabeth Blake, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Paul Kasmin Gallery.
Street, a mesmerizing 61-minute high-definition video filmed on the streets of New York City over the course of a week in September 2011, creates a fluid narrative that transforms people’s movements and gestures into an elegant, slow-motion choreography. It is accompanied by a soundtrack composed on acoustic 12-string guitar by Sonic Youth co-founder Thurston Moore.
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6/7/2014 - 9/7/2014
Left: Thomas Moran (American, born England, 1837–1926), The Towers of Tower
Falls from The Yellowstone National Park, and the Mountain Regions of
Portions of Idaho, Nevada, Colorado and Utah, 1876, chromolithograph on
paper, Joslyn Art Museum, Gift of Gail and Michael
Yanney and Lisa and Bill Roskens, 2001.40.9
In 1876, Louis Prang published a portfolio of fifteen chromolithographs after watercolors by the renowned painter Thomas Moran. Released to coincide with the nation’s centennial, this was one of the first illustrated publications about the West to be printed in color, helping to transform our understanding of the region from an alien wilderness to a central part of our national identity.
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6/7/2014 - 9/7/2014
Left: Mark di Suvero, Untitled (model for Council Bluffs), 2010, Sharpie
marker, marker, ink, and graphite on paper, Collection Mark di Suvero
studio; Photograph Courtesy of the Artist and Spacetime C.C.; © JSP
Photography
Coinciding with the installation of a monumental sculpture by Mark di Suvero commissioned by the Iowa West Foundation for Tom Hanafan River’s Edge Park in Council Bluffs, Joslyn presents this complementary exhibition of the artist’s work, including studies for the Tom Hanafan River’s Edge commission, smaller sculptures, and prints.
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5/3/2014 - 8/23/2014
Organized by SkyWindWorld
Left: Crows Stealing the Buffalo Ponies (artist: John Pollock; Billings, MT)
Thirty kites commemorating Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery Expedition will be on view throughout the metro area. Commissioned from America's most renowned kite builders, imagery for these kites is informed by the explorers' journal notes on the people and natural resources encountered on their journey and members of the Corps who traveled with them.
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2/8/2014 - 5/11/2014
Organized by the Tampa Museum of Art
Left: Black-Figure Lekythos, Greek, Attic, ca. 540–530 BC, ceramic, Tampa Museum of Art, Joseph Veach Noble Collection 1986.043. Photo courtesy of lender.
The realms of Poseidon encompassed virtually every aspect of life in the ancient Mediterranean world, from mythology and religious cult to the daily life of its people. This exhibition, premiering nationally at Joslyn, explores each of his dominions through more than 100 works of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art produced between 800 BC and 400 AD. Visitors will see striking black-figure and red-figure pottery, alongside sculptures in terracotta, marble, and precious metals, and extraordinary examples of ancient glass, mosaics, carved gems, and coins, all providing a rich picture of life in the ancient world.
Free admission for all Joslyn members! $10 for general public adults; youth ages 17 and younger & college students with ID are free. Join today to see it free!
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2/8/2014 - 5/11/2014
Left: iROZEALb, POD 777: Don’t cry . . .
it’s only the rhythm, the Grace of the tsuru, 2013, acrylic, ink, krink, and graphite on wood panel, 60 x 48 in.; Courtesy the artist and Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, New York
The inaugural exhibition in Joslyn’s Karen and Doug Riley Contemporary Artists Project (CAP) Gallery features work by Brooklyn-based artist iROZEALb (Iona Rozeal Brown, b. Washington, DC, 1963).
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9/28/2013 - 1/5/2014
Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Left: Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), No Title, 1987, oil on canvas, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Promised gift of Emily Fisher Landau, P.2010.70, © 2013 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Legacy features a selection of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from a historic gift pledged to the Whitney in 2010 by Emily Fisher Landau, a preeminent collector of postwar art in the United States. Legacy's themes include the relevance of representation in the aftermath of Minimalism; gender and racial politics; and the “culture wars” of the 1980s. Featured artists Andy Warhol, Glenn Ligon, Sherrie Levine, Agnes Martin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, John Baldessari, Kiki Smith, and Ed Ruscha.
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8/10/2013 - 11/3/2013
Left: "But the next week he knocked . . .," pen and ink on poster board, Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library; TM & © Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. All Rights Reserved.
Presidential libraries have plenty of art, including numerous portraits of Presidents, but the LBJ Presidential Library has artwork you might not expect — a set of original drawings by Dr. Seuss. It is the artwork from The Lorax, which Dr. Seuss considered his finest work. Joslyn will showcase a selection of Dr. Seuss' preliminary crayon drawings and final pen and ink line art for this iconic book.
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6/8/2013 - 9/1/2013
Organized by the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis
Left: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901), Dancer Seated on a Pink Divan, 1884, oil on canvas, Collection of Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Gift of Sara Lee Corporation
This vibrant exhibition traces the most significant developments in French painting that shaped the direction of modern art for more than a century. Renoir to Chagall presents the scenes — from ballet to boulevard — that made Paris a magnet for nineteenth- and twentieth-century masters, among them Cézanne, Chagall, Degas, Gauguin, Matisse, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, and Toulouse-Lautrec.
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4/27/2013 - 7/28/2013
Left: Sugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzel, © Raul Colon
An award-winning illustrator of over thirty books for children, Raúl Colón uses very unique techniques in his artwork to create texture and rich, deep colors. The illustrations are done on watercolor paper and combine watercolor washes, etching, and the use of colored pencils and
litho pencils.
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4/25/2013 - 6/10/2014
Left: after Karl Bodmer (Swiss, 1809-1893), Mato-Tope A Mandan Chief (Tableau 13), engraving with aquatint, hand-colored (produced in 1991 by Alecto Historical Editions, London, from the original ca. 1840 printing plates), Joslyn Art Museum
The Maximilian-Bodmer Expedition: Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832–34 is a Joslyn Art Museum-organized traveling exhibition.
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1/26/2013 - 5/12/2013
Left: William Wylie, Lebanon Kansas, Spring 2006, gelatin silver print, courtesy of the artist
Looking to avoid the monotony of Interstate 70 during a drive through Kansas, William Wylie took a detour across the two-lane Route 36, which runs along the state’s northern border. Captivated by the small towns, farms, fields, and open prairie, he returned over the next four summers to document the vernacular landscape of the plains.
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1/26/2013 - 5/12/2013
Left: Maurice Prendergast (1858-1924), The Promenade (detail), 1913, oil on canvas, with carved and gilded wood frame, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Alexander M. Bing Bequest 60.10a-b
Ten Masterworks from the Whitney Museum of American Art focuses on masterpieces by early twentieth-century artists who challenged the boundaries of American art. Representing the finest works in the Whitney’s collection, these ten paintings trace the emergence of modernism and abstraction during the first five decades of the twentieth century, describing a range of narratives from urban society to the pastoral landscape, portraiture, and still life.
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1/26/2013 - 6/9/2013
Left: Jennifer Steinkamp (American, born 1958), Madame Curie, 2011, multi-channel, synchronized projection, Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Museum purchase with funds provided by Joan and Irwin Jacobs. Photo by Robert Wedemeyer.
Marie Curie received two Nobel Prizes for creating the theory of radioactivity and discovering radium and polonium; she was also an avid gardener and lover of flowers. Video artist Jennifer Steinkamp’s monumental projection Madame Curie presents an abundance of marsh marigolds, may flower, chestnut blossoms, and hop plants that weave their way across the gallery in a continually undulating field.
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1/12/2013 - 4/14/2013
Left: Every Friday, 2006, gouache on watercolor paper,
© Dan Yaccarino
Author/illustrator Dan Yaccarino has delighted audiences worldwide with his Parent's Choice Award-winning animated TV series Oswald (Nick Jr.), depicting the wonderfully whimsical world of a lovable blue octopus. Yaccarino has brought over 30 children’s books to life with his award-winning, retro-style illustrations inspired by comic books, vintage animation, toys, and old films.
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10/13/2012 - 12/30/2012
Left: "Who Blinks in the Sunlight" from Moon Bear, 2010, collage,
© Ed Young
Ed Young finds inspiration for his more than 80 books in the philosophy of Chinese painting. In 1990 his book Lon Po Po was awarded the Caldecott Medal. He has received two Caldecott Honors for his illustrations in The Emperor and the Kite as well as Seven Blind Mice. Young was also nominated twice for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the highest international recognition given to authors and illustrators who have made a lasting contribution to children's literature.
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10/6/2012 - 1/6/2013
Left: Roger Shimomura (Japanese-American, b. 1939), Mistaken Identities: for Dorothea Lange, 2005, edition of 45, lithograph, Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer, © Roger Shimomura
Under Pressure: Contemporary Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation presents selections from the largest collection of contemporary prints in the United States. Spanning the past five decades, the exhibition features works by thirty-nine artists from Jasper Johns and Sol LeWitt to Damien Hirst, Kiki Smith, and Kara Walker. Under Pressure charts an array of artistic and social concerns, from minimalism to pop and conceptual art, and more recent works addressing race, gender, and identity.
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7/14/2012 - 9/30/2012
Left: "While he was swimming, the King passed by and Puss shouted
with . . .," from Puss in Boots, 1990, colored pencil and graphite, © Fred Marcellino
A celebrated artist and designer, Fred Marcellino changed the look and feel of book covers for contemporary fiction before becoming an author and illustrator of award-winning children’s books.
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6/30/2012 - 9/16/2012
Left: Andrew J. Russell (American, 1830–1902), Promontory Trestle Work and Engine No. 2 (detail), 1869, albumen silver print, Union Pacific Historical Collection
This exhibition marks the Union Pacific Railroad's milestone anniversary year. In 1868, photographer Andrew J. Russell came west to document construction of the transcontinental railroad from Omaha to Promontory Summit, Utah. The results of this partnership were published the following year in an album, The Great West Illustrated, which is recognized as one of the most important photographic commissions of the nineteenth century.
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6/30/2012 - 9/16/2012
Left: Karen Kitchel (American, born 1957), Panel no. 2 from the Promontory Series, 2003, oil on panel, Courtesy of Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
Contested Terrain: Painting the Modern Landscape addresses the complexities of depicting a landscape that is rarely sublime or romantic. Rather than seeking scenic vistas or idyllic fragments of wilderness, the artists in this exhibition uncover a diversity of narratives — personal, environmental, industrial, and cultural histories — that can be read in the landscape. Their work describes places that have been transformed by development and industry, while still locating moments that speak forcefully of the natural world. The exhibition includes work by Chuck Forsman, Karen Kitchel, James Lavadour, Jean Lowe, Alexis Rockman, Michael Scott, and Don Stinson.
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4/14/2012 - 7/1/2012
Left: Toads and Diamonds, © 1996, Anita Lobel
Anita Lobel's name is synonymous with the best in children's literature. Since the 1960s she has created many children's classics and received a Caldecott Honor for her illustrations in On Market Street.
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2/11/2012 - 6/3/2012
Left: Mummy Cartonnage of a Woman, Roman Period, first century CE, linen, gilded gesso, glass, and faience, Collection of Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Encompassing more than 100 objects drawn from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-renowned holdings of ancient Egyptian art, including some of the greatest masterworks of the Egyptian artistic heritage, To Live Forever explores the Egyptians’ beliefs about life, death, and the afterlife; the process of mummification; the conduct of a funeral; and the different types of tombs—answering questions at the core of the public’s fascination with ancient Egypt.
To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum has been organized by the Brooklyn Museum.
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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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