Sheldon Museum of Art
formerly
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE
402-472-2461
http://www.sheldonartgallery.org/
The Sheldon Museum of Art houses both the Sheldon Art Association collection, founded in 1888, and the University of Nebraska collection, initiated in 1929. Together they comprise more than 12,000 works of art in all media. This comprehensive collection of American art includes prominent holdings of 19th-century landscape and still life, American Impressionism, early Modernism, geometric abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, pop, minimalism and contemporary art.
In the Sculpture Garden, more than 30 monumental sculptures are exhibited year-round and include major works by Gaston Lachaise, Jacques Lipchitz, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, David Smith, William Tucker, Bryan Hunt, Mark di Suvero, Michael Heizer and Richard Serra.
The Sheldon's exhibition program focuses on American art in all media. The curatorial staff organizes exhibitions drawn from the permanent collection, many of which circulate nationally. The program also includes exhibitions organized by peer institutions throughout the United States. Educational programs such as symposia, lectures, children's workshops and tours are organized in conjunction with each exhibition.
The Sheldon Museum of Art is located at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 12th & R Streets, Lincoln, NE 68588-0300. Hours and admission charges are located on the Sheldon Museum of Art's website. (source: Sheldon Museum of Art website)
Google announced in 2004 a collaboration with institutional libraries to digitize large quantities of books: the Google Books Library Project. Public domain books are available on an open access basis. Copyrighted material is treated in one of three ways. Google negotiates with cooperating publishers through its Google Books Partner Program for "Limited Preview" of entire pages or sections within books by readers. For scanned books without copyright permissions, "snippets" are available. For remaining books basic information is provided without ability to search within the book. The snippets inform readers about the relevance of the book to their subject of inquiry.
Google explains its service saying:
Note: A Google Book Search conducted May 6, 2008 located the following books published by the Museum. None featured Limited Preview. The catalogues are listed in reverse date order. Information provided by Google Books.
Book information courtesy of Google Books.
The potential for the essays in the above books to be placed online for free access by the public is of interest to TFAO. For information on digitizing initiatives from non profit organizations please see digitizing initiatives and for commercial initiatives please see commercial ventures. For information on two of TFAO's digitizing initiatives please click here for the Institutional Sources Study Project and here for the Collections-Centric Scholarly Texts Project.
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