Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, U. Nebraska
Mark Rothko. Yellow Band, 1956. Oil on canvas. Painting–From the Collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art
August 2013 thru mid July 2014
In honor of the Sheldon Museum of Art’s 50th anniversary, the museum is publishing an all-new catalog of its impressive paintings collection, featuring 125 major works along with smart, engaging entries by a team of respected scholars. In celebration of this important publication, Sheldon will re-open its permanent collection galleries in the summer of 2013 with an installation of some of its most beloved and iconic paintings, including nineteenth-century masterpieces by Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, and Benjamin West; iconic pictures by twentieth-century artists such as Edward Hopper, Lee Krasner, Barnett Newman, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol; and paintings by both emerging artists and giants in the contemporary field, including Dan Christensen, Hung Liu, Patssi Valdez, and Philemona Williamson. This survey of Sheldon’s paintings will allow visitors to re-engage with old favorites while experiencing new ones, all freshly interpreted based on new discoveries and research.
Location: Sheldon Museum of Art
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Joslyn Art Museum
LANDSCAPES FROM THE AGE OF IMPRESSIONISM
June 5 – Sept. 12, 2010
John Singer Sargent, Dolce Far Niente, ca. 1907, oil on canvas, Collection of Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of A. Augustus Healy
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. Ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1920s, the works presented offer a broad survey of landscape painting as practiced by such leading French artists as Gustave Courbet and Claude Monet and their most significant American followers including Frederick Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent. |