Alfred Brooks: MONA collection artwork

Posted on by Rick Schuessler

Alfred Brooks Nebraska-The Escape of the Cheyenne Indians from the Prison at Fort Robinson-Incidents of their Pursuit and Massacre by U.S. Troops wood engraving published in Harper’s Weekly, February 15, 1879 15 ¾ × 10″ Gift of F. William & Beverley Karrer Accession No: 2018.01.01 (click image for full view)

Marilyn Belschner

Marilyn Belschner

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1930, Beatrice, Nebraska – 2018, Chadron, Nebraska View Artwork Born March 7, 1930 in Beatrice, Nebraska, Marilyn Jean Fuller was the only child of Marion and Margaret Fuller. Her newly-married parents, a bus driver and a young school teacher, struggled to establish a home in the hard times that the Great Depression caused. Growing up Read More

Ethel Irene Blandin Haworth

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1887, Macon Nebraska ‒ 1969, Canon City, Colorado (Ethel Irene Blandin) Born in Franklin County, Nebraska, Ethel Haworth would go on to become a landscape, western scene, and portrait artist as well as an art gallery owner. Leaving Nebraska at age 13 with her parents Joseph and Miranda (Nettleton) Blandin, the family moved to Eaton, Read More

Anna Marie Karnik Beran

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(1891, Howells, Nebraska ‒ 1969, Omaha, Nebraska) As an artist specializing in landscapes and frontier scenes, Anna Marie Beran spent most of her life in Omaha, Nebraska. Though she lived in one of the largest cities in the state, she kept close ties to her hometown of Howells in northeastern Nebraska. As one of seven Read More

Katherine (Kate) Madeline Ball

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1859, Reading, Pennsylvania – 1952, San Francisco, California Coming to Omaha, Nebraska in 1888 from the East Coast where she had attended the Cooper Union Art School in New York City, Katherine Ball began seven years with the Omaha Public Schools as writing and drawing teacher and art supervisor. From her first year in the Read More