1880, Burton’s Bend, Nebraska ‒ 1928, San Francisco, California Born and raised on the Nebraska frontier in the late 1800s, Emma Freeman, a young woman with artistic talent and ambition to ‘make it’ in a wider world, left her barely settled part of the frontier and ‘headed West.’ She moved to Denver before making a Read More
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Eldora Pauline Lorenzini
1910, Weldona, Colorado ‒ 1993, Alliance, Nebraska Illustrator, muralist, fine art painter, and teacher, Eldora Lorenzini lived in Colorado and several southern states during much of her life, but she remains known in Nebraska for the mural she created in 1939 for the newly-built post office in Hebron. Titled Stampeding Buffaloes Stopping the Train, it Read More
Ruth Olive Rosekrans Hoffman
1926, Denton, Nebraska ‒ 2007, David City, Nebraska (Rosekrans Hoffman) (Ruth Rosekrans) Born and raised in Nebraska and returning to the state for the last years of her life, Ruth Rosekrans Hoffman was an illustrator of more than 30 children’s books, songbooks, and textbooks. Indeed her name was known far beyond her home state, which Read More
Grant Reynard: Prints
November 22, 2016 – March 19, 2017 Grant Reynard, Nebraska painter and illustrator, was also a prolific printmaker. MONA has the largest collection of Reynard’s work and archives in the world. This exhibition features the process of printmaking from preliminary sketches, drawings, and plate engraving to the finished artwork.
Mujeres
October 18, 2016 – February 12, 2017 Mujeres, translated to “women” in English, is the first exhibition in Nebraska to focus on the shared existence of five contemporary artists: all women, all Latino, and all connected to the state. The artists selected are Claudia Alvarez, Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez, Linda Garcia-Perez, Reneé A. Ledesma, and Sandra Williams. Read More
Every Picture Tells a Story: Play
August 26, 2016 – January 29, 2017 Narrative art through images evokes the power of the imagination, providing limitless opportunities for sensory, emotional, and personal interpretation, so viewers can discover their own unique story. For the annual series of exhibitions in the Postmaster Gallery, 2016 features Every Picture Tells a Story with three subjects in Read More
Bil Baird: The Art of Puppetry
September 27, 2016 – January 22, 2017 Bil Baird was born in Grand Island Nebraska and grew up in Mason City, Iowa. In his early teens, Baird began creating puppets and giving performances in his parent’s home. After graduating from the University of Iowa and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, he formed the Baird Read More
Ruth Lillian Ratliff Addison
1912, Omaha Nebraska – 1980, Anaheim, California (Ruth Ratliff) A relatively unknown but obviously talented artist, Ruth Addison was first brought to public attention in Nebraska with the description of being “untrained.” However, the reviewer using that word, not once but twice, quickly turned it into a compliment. His name was Ernest Witte, and he Read More
Nebraska Now: Anne Burkholder, Paintings
October 8, 2016 – January 8, 2017 Throughout her long career, Lincoln painter Anne Burkholder is well known for depicting the Nebraska landscape, drawing on her experience of growing up in the Sandhills. In this series, she again focuses on roads, fields, and the sky, yet with a twist as she brings to the viewer Read More
John Falter’s Heroes
August 23 – December 11, 2016 John Falter (1910-1982) was a native Nebraskan who studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and The Art Students League of New York City. He was a successful illustrator before he joined the U.S. Navy in 1943. Commissioned a lieutenant on special art assignments, Falter created more than 300 Read More
