Art in Nebraska
Art in Nebraska has developed rapidly - from Native American to surrealist efforts - in little more than 150 years. Nebraska, A Guide to the Cornhusker State, compiled ...
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What We Found
Burman, Ellis
Sculptor Ellis Luis Burman may be an unfamiliar name to most Nebraskans, but his sculptures remain well known to visitors of Lincoln parks. Born in 1902 in Toledo, Ohio, ...
Lazy Days of Summer
Are you enjoying your summer as much as the boys in this photograph?
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Omaha’s Shocking Nineteenth-Century Art
In 1890 a young man named Carey Judson Warbington picked up a chair and began smashing a painting that hung in an Omaha gallery. The painting was Return of Spring by ...
George A. Joslyn of Omaha
George Joslyn. From Arthur C. Wakeley’s Omaha, the Gate City, and Douglas County, Nebraska (Chicago, 1917).
The name of George A. Joslyn (1846-1916) is connected with ...
Nebraska’s New Deal Art
For those of you who were unable to make it to the Nebraska History Museum last year for the exhibit entitled, “For the People: Nebraska’s New Deal Art,” we have some ...
An Artist’s View of the Fort Robinson Prisoner of War Camp
During World War II there were 126 Prisoner of War (POW) camps in the United States. Fort Robinson, Nebraska had one of these camps. By the end of the war, this camp ...
Historic Detail in Minden’s Depression-Era Art
In a previous post, we told you about Nebraska’s twelve post office murals, as presented in Robert Puschendorf’s new book Nebraska’s Post Office Murals: Born of the ...
Artistry in Butter
These statues, entitled Friends, by J. E. Wallace, were composed of lard. NSHS RG2158-15-1
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, butter art was ...
Real Nebraska Stories: Nebraska’s Post Office Murals
Nebraska’s Post Office Murals Explores New Deal Legacy
Nebraska's Post Office Murals is now available at Amazon Prime.
Public art is among the most ...
Albert Lamborn Green drawings
Albert Lamborn Green (1845-1947), a Quaker, was appointed as the Indian agent for the Otoe tribe by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869. He wrote and illustrated an ...
John P. Falter Sketch
John Falter in his studio, 1978, taken by the Philadelphia Enquirer
Nebraska native John P. Falter was a renowned illustrator and artist best known for the more ...
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