Joslyn Art Museum
The Joslyn Art Museum is the most important art museum in the US state of Nebraska . Located in the middle of the city of Omaha , it is the only museum in the state with a permanent exhibition spanning several eras. The museum's holdings include works from antiquity to the present day. However, the focus of the collection is on European and American works from the 19th and 20th centuries.
history
The museum was founded by Sarah H. Joslyn in memory of her husband George A. Joslyn and opened in 1931. It is located in a large Art Deco building designed by architects John and Alan Madconald. 38 different types of marble were used in its construction, but pink marble from Georgia is dominant. The friezes on the outside of the building are by the sculptor John David Brcin and refer to the inhabitants of the Great Plains and show both the original indigenous peoples and the later European settlers.
A substantial expansion took place in 1994. The architect in charge was Sir Norman Foster . The extension opened in 1994. In 2008 the construction of the Joslyn Sculpture Garden began. This opened in summer 2009 on the occasion of the annual jazz festival. Since then, the garden has also been the venue for this annual festival, which has been celebrated in July and August for the last 25 years.
collection
The museum's holdings include:
- Works of antiquity with a particularly large collection of Greek ceramics.
- European art of the 16th and 17th centuries. The collection includes pictures by Veronese , Tizian , Claude Lorrain , Massimo Stanzione and El Greco .
- 19th century European art is one of the museum's main collections. The collection includes works by Delacroix and Gustave Doré , Corot and Gustave Courbet . The Impressionism is, inter alia, Degas , Monet , Pissarro and Renoir represented.
- American Art: The collection includes early American works by James Peale and Mather Brown . The collection also includes numerous works by the Hudson River School , namely Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, as well as pictures by the American impressionists Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase .
- Works from the time of exploration of the North American West. This includes an important collection of the diaries of Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied and the watercolors by the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer , which were created during the trip to inner North America between 1832 and 1834 , and the collection of printing plates by Karl Bodmer. Details see here . The museum also has works by Alfred Jacob Miller , which are themed on Western America in the 1830s.
- Works by the indigenous peoples of the American West. This includes both traditional works and works that were created under the influence of European settlers.
- 20th Century: The 20th Century Collection includes works by Henri Matisse , Stuart Davis , Theodore Roszak , John Sloan and Robert Henri , sculptures by Deborah Butterfield , Robert Haozous , Donald Judd , Sol LeWitt and Martin Puryear .
Web links
supporting documents
- ^ Graham WJ Beal: Joslyn Art Museum: A Building History . Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska 1994, ISBN 0936364-25-4 .
- ^ David Haward Bain: The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West . Penguin Books, New York City, New York 2004, ISBN 0143035266 , pp. 65-6.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 41 ° 15 ′ 36.9 ″ N , 95 ° 56 ′ 45.7 ″ W.