Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery

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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 Stuart P. Embury American Art Research Library will complement the existing research library with more than 10,000 volumes documenting the history of American art.

The Sheldon's exhibition program comprises approximately 20 exhibitions per year and 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.

Künstler der Galerie bzw der Sammlung

Berenice Abbott     Ansel Adams     Josef Albers     Joe Andoe     Polly Apfelbaum     Alexander Archipenko     Milton Avery     Saul Baizerman     George Wesley Bellows     Fletcher Benton     Isabel Bishop     Louise Bourgeois     Constantin Brancusi     Patrick Henry Bruce     Coosje van Bruggen     Deborah Butterfield     Alexander Calder     Mary Cassatt     Enrique Chagoya     Thomas Cole     Bruce Conner     Joseph Cornell     Stuart Davis     Charles Demuth     Mark di Suvero     Arthur Dove     Lyonel Feininger     Lorser Feitelson     Llyn Foulkes     Sam Francis     William Glackens     Michael Goldberg     Marsden Hartley

Childe Hassam     Joseph Havel     Michael Heizer     Robert Henri     Anthony Hernandez     Hans Hofmann     Edward Hopper     Salomón Huerta     Robert Indiana     David Ireland     Donald Judd     Rockwell Kent     Willem de Kooning     Yasuo Kuniyoshi     Gaston Lachaise     Jacob Lawrence     John Marin     Ana Mendieta     Robert Motherwell     Elie Nadelman     Alice Neel     Louise Nevelson     Claes Oldenburg     Jackson Pollock     Auguste Rodin     Mark Rothko     Roger Shimomura     David Smith     Tony Smith     Alfred Stieglitz     Edward Weston