Sheldon Museum of Art
formerly
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE
402-472-2461
http://www.sheldonartgallery.org/
Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:
The Unknown Blakelock; essay by Sharon L. Kennedy (2/12/08)
The Unknown Blakelock (2/8/08)
Alfred H. Maurer: American Modernist (4/11/01)
American Impressionism from the Permanent Collection (7/27/00)
Robert Colescott: Recent Paintings (8/14/99)
Black Image and Identity: African-American Art from the Permanent Collection (8/14/99)
Charles Rain: Magic Realism (8/14/99)
The Latino Spirit: Hispanic Icons and Images (10/98)
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 Book Searches conducted in 2008 and 2013 by Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) located the following brochures, catalogues and gallery guides published on paper in connection with the Museum and with a topic of American representational art. The list may not include all relevant publications. Titles are listed by date of publication, with most recent listed first. Information on publications may be in error or incomplete. Titles may be followed by links to related essays published by Resource Library. See Definitions for more information on finding brochures, catalogues and gallery guides using TFAO's website.
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