Eddie Smith: MONA collection artwork

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Eddie Smith Untitled (triptych) monoprint n.d. 23 × 14½” Gift of the Artist Accession No:1999.43.a (click image for full view) Eddie Smith Untitled (triptych) monoprint n.d. 23 × 14½” Gift of the Artist Accession No:1999.43.c (click image for full view) Eddie Smith Untitled (triptych) monoprint n.d. 23 × 14½” Gift of the Artist Accession No:1999.43.b Read More

Miriam (Mim) Anderson Worlock

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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

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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

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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

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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