Jody Shields The First Suite-Red Threads intaglio (6/28) 1973 Gift of the Lincoln Artists’ Guild Accession No:1992.89.32 (click image for full view)
Velma Fees Fairchild: MONA collection artwork
1897, Lenox, Iowa – 1992, Minden, Nebraska Velma Fees Fairchild Pocahantas (Pocahontas) watercolor n.d. Gift of the Artist Accession No: 1991.19 (click image for full view)
James Denney: MONA collection artwork
1924 James Denney Lincoln and the Republic color photograph 1976 20×16″ Gift of the Artist Accession No:1986.04 (click image for full view)
Charles B. Rogers: MONA collection artwork
1911, Great Bend, Kansas – 1987, Salina, Kansas Charles B. Rogers Ripened Corn lithograph n.d. Gift of Anonymous Donor Accession No: 1978.18 (click image for full view)
Miriam (Mim) Anderson Worlock
1895, Kearney Nebraska ‒ 1985, Kearney, Nebraska View Artwork Described as a “Kearney woman who can sing, paint, take photographs, ride horses, climb mountains and is an expert at baking bread,” (Denney) Miriam Worlock successfully pursued her talent for landscape and still life painting as well as ink drawing. She “was the first Kearney artist Read More
Virginia Young Moon
1906, Valentine, Nebraska ‒ 1997, South Sioux City, Nebraska Painter of Nebraska landscapes, western states, and other countries, Virginia Young Moon was somewhat active as an artist when a young woman and in later years made it her primary activity. Virginia, born and raised on a large cattle ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills, was the Read More
Jeanne Magafan
1916, Chicago, Illinois – 1952, Albany, New York (Jenne Magafan Chavez) Achieving national renown as a mural and easel painter, Jenne Magafan spent the early part of her life in Colorado. However, in the 1930s, she was in northeast Nebraska where she created a post office mural for the town of Albion. Jenne was then Read More
Anna E. Reid Hall
1857, Julian, Nebraska ‒ 1928, Lincoln, Nebraska (Mrs. F.M. Hall) One of early Nebraska’s most vital crusaders for the arts, Anna Hall was also an artist herself and an informed art collector. As a long-time resident of Lincoln married to a prominent attorney, she had an extensive list of accomplishments: organizer of the first private Read More
Alice Agnes Shaul Cumbow
1894, Wood Lake, Nebraska ‒ 1994, Valentine, Nebraska view artwork Living for 100 years in Cherry County, Nebraska, Alice Cumbow painted images of her world with such clarity and simplicity that, for many people familiar with her artwork, she and her paintings are synonymous with the beauty and history of the Sandhills. Without affectation or Read More
Anna Mary McKee Halsey
1865, Milesburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania ‒ 1948, Omaha, Nebraska Heraldic artist, teacher, genealogist, and social scientist, Anna Mary McKee Halsey was a highly energetic and artistically creative woman who, along with her prominent husband, made significant cultural contributions to Omaha, Nebraska in the early 20th century. She was born in 1865 in Milesburg, Centre County, Read More
