Walter C. Wood Shoveler Decoy cattail, wire, wood c. 1920 Gift of Larry Peterson and Gary Zaruba Accession No: 2008.15 (click image for full view)
Emery Blagdon: MONA collection artwork
1907, Callaway, Nebraska – 1986, Callaway, Nebraska Emery Blagdon Untitled Individual Component of the Healing Machine mixed media, wire c. 1955-1986 69½ × 11″ Museum Purchase made possible by Cliff & Mary Hillegass Trusts Accession No: 2014.14.01 (click image for full view)
Carl Coniglio: MONA collection artwork
1948, Omaha, Nebraska – Carl Coniglio Lincoln Yard, November oil on canvas n.d. 16 × 20″ Gift of Wells Fargo Bank Accession No: 2001.22.01 (click image for full view) Carl Coniglio The First Suite-Nebraska Landscape intaglio (6/28) 1973 Gift of Lincoln Artists’ Guild Accession No: 1992.89.05 (click image for full view)
Elizabeth Agness Callaway
1917, Fairbury, Nebraska ‒ 2009, Seward, Nebraska (Elizabeth Callaway Anderson) (Elizabeth Callaway Turnbull) View artwork One of Nebraska’s more creative, accomplished, and energetic women, Elizabeth Callaway was a painter, illustrator, printmaker, photographer, poet, published writer, mountain climber, and avid traveler. Her son, John Turnbull, described her as “never one to pass up a chance to Read More
Zenaide Luhr
1915, Omaha, Nebraska ‒ 2002, Omaha, Nebraska (Leone Zenaide Luhr) View artwork Known for her multi-media modernist art, for her many years of teaching in the public schools, and for a highly creative and active lifestyle, Zenaide Luhr made a large imprint on the arts culture of her hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. She was especially Read More
Velma Olga Novotny Armstrong
1913, Diller, Nebraska ‒ 2011, Fort Collins, Colorado Painter of Nebraska frontier scenes featured at the Homestead National Monument west of Beatrice, Nebraska, Velma Armstrong lived much of her long life in that region. Her paintings, according to the Omaha World-Herald, are “of special interest” and “depict the life of pioneer Nebraska homesteaders. All done Read More
Emma Belle Richart Freeman
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
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 View artwork (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 Read More
Edgar Britton: MONA collection artwork
1901, Kearney, Nebraska – 1982, Denver, Colorado Edgar Britton Dancers monotype n.d. Gift of James Allison Flynn & Elizabeth Fore Flynn Accession No: 1988.18 (click image for full view) Edgar Britton Untitled (birds) bronze c. 1969 17½ × 9″ Museum Purchase made possible by MONA Guild Accession No: 2012.26.01 (click image for full view) Edgar Britton Untitled (male Read More
