1924, Zanesville, Ohio – 2004, Lincoln, Nebraska View artwork Gail Hammond Butt was born on May 19, 1924 in Zanesville, Ohio. He received his BS, BFA, and MA all from Ohio State University and was Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln until his retirement in 1990. Butt works in oil, Read More
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James D. Butler
1945, Fort Dodge, Iowa – View Artwork James Butler was born on August 30, 1945 in Fort Dodge, Iowa. He received his BS K-12 from the University of Omaha in 1967 and his MFA from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1970. He has taught for many years in the Illinois State University in Read More
Judith Burton
1933, Lincoln, Nebraska – View artwork Burton holds her BFA and MFA from the university of Nebraska at Lincoln, where she has also served as a visiting Assistant Professor. Burton currently maintains her studio in Lincoln. Artist’s Statement I am an oil painter. The supports for my work include canvas, paper, and masonite because I feel Read More
Mary Louise Tejeda Brown
b. 1921, Los Angeles, California – d. 2017, Crawford, Nebraska View artwork Born in Los Angeles to parents who had immigrated from Mexico and Switzerland, Mary Louise Tejeda Brown first studied art in high school with the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Carondelet, then commercial art at the Frank Wiggins Trade School in Los Angeles. Read More
Joseph Broghammer
1963, Omaha, Nebraska – View Artwork Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Joe Broghammer earned his B.F.A. degree in 1986 from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, followed by graduate work at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He has exhibited his work in more than 40 group shows and has also had solo exhibitions throughout Read More
Roger Broer
1945, Omaha, Nebraska – View Artwork Roger Broer, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1945 to mixed Native American and white parents. He was adopted and raised by Ludwig and Frieda Broer, a traditional German family from Randolph, NE. He received his BA, Extended Fine Arts from Eastern Read More
Susan Brasch
1950, Minneapolis, Minnesota – View artwork Susan Brasch was born in 1950 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She received a B.F.A. degree from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln in 1972. After working in academia and corporate marketing, Brasch chose to become a full-time studio artist in 1982, primarily as a painter. Over the years she has Read More
Ralph A. Blakelock
1847, New York, New York – 1919, Adirondacks, New York View Artwork Blakelock was born and studied in New York City and began his career as a late Hudson River School landscape painter. He made his exhibition debut at the National Academy of Design in 1868, exhibiting there annually until 1873 and sporadically thereafter. He Read More
Myra Biggerstaff
1905, Logansport, Indiana – 1999, Auburn, Nebraska View Artwork Painter, woodblock printer, textile artist, and educator, Myra Biggerstaff cut a wide swath in the world of modernist art, but Auburn, Nebraska was the place which served as her physical and psychological anchor. As a youngster, she found special places there to sketch, returned to regain Read More
Albert Bierstadt
1830, Solingen, Germany – 1902, New York, New York View artwork Albert Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Germany and brought to New Bedford, Massachusetts when he was two years old. In 1854 he returned to Dusseldorf, Germany to study painting. While in Europe he made many field trips along the Rhine, in the Alps and Read More
