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
 HR.jpg) 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
.jpg) 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
.jpg) 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.
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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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