Paul Otero

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1950, Denver, Colorado – View artwork Paul Otero was born on August 8, 1950 in Denver, Colorado and received his BA from Kearney State College in 1977. He was honorably discharged after serving in the U.S. Army from 1968 to 1971. Otero currently resides in Omaha creating realistic drawings and paintings of figures. He is Read More

Ernest Ochsner

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1944, Isabel, South Dakota – View artwork Ernest Ochsner was born on January 28, 1944 in Isabel, South Dakota. He maintains a studio in Aurora, Nebraska and is mainly a self-taught artist, using his own photographs to create photo-realistic paintings of people and places. Ochsner’s work can be found in numurous collections throughout the U.S. Read More

Dale Nichols

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1904, David City, Nebraska – 1995, Sedona, Arizona View Artwork Dale Nichols was born in David City, Nebraska on July 13, 1904. At twenty, Nichols went to study at Chicago’s Acadmey of Fine Arts. He remained in Chicago for approximately fifteen years, spending one year as the Carnegie Professor in Art at the University of Illinois. Read More

Deborah Murphy

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1950, North Platte, Nebraska – Deborah Murphy was born on June 5, 1950 in North Platte, Nebraska and received her BA from Kearney State College in 1972. She came to Omaha after college and has taught at the University of Omaha and the Metropolitan Community College since then. Murphy is largely known as a landscape Read More

Mark Moseman

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1945, Oakland, Nebraska – View artwork Descended from homesteaders, Mark Moseman was raised on a farm near Oakland, Nebraska. After earning degrees in architecture and city planning, he taught at New York’s Syracuse University and was an urban designer in Phoenix, Arizona and Kansas City, Missouri. He also studied at the Kansas City Art Institute. Read More

Wright Morris

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1910, Central City, Nebraska – 1998, Mill Valley, California View artwork Wright Morris was born on January 6, 1910 in Central City, Nebraska. His mother, Grace Osborn Morris, died within days of his birth, leaving Morris “half an orphan.” His father, Will Morris, was a traveler and “wanderer” who often left Wright in the care of Read More

Alfred Jacob Miller

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1810, Baltimore, Maryland – 1874, Baltimore, Maryland View Artwork Miller was born in Baltimore. He studied portraiture with Thomas Sully from 1831-32. In 1833 he went to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and later at the English Life School in Rome. Upon his return he opened a portrait studio in Baltimore but was Read More

Douglas Martin

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1947, Newton, Kansas – View artwork Martin grew up in Hassington, Kansas, where he attended high school. He earned his BFA from Kansas State university in 1971 and received an MFA from UNL in 1975. In 1979, he was living in New York. View artwork

Jane Golding Marie (Dadey)

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1951, Stratton, Nebraska – View artwork Jane Golding Marie was born May 12, 1951 in Stratton, Nebraska and received her BA from Kearney State College in 1972. She was an elementary school teacher in Marquette Consolidated Schools from 1973 to 1986. Marie’s quilting and fiber techniques became well known after her participation with Judy Chicago Read More

George Lundeen

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1948, Holdrege, Nebraska – View artwork Born and raised in Holdrege, Nebraska, George Lundeen went to college at Hastings, and then went on to the University of Illinois for graduate work. A Fulbright-Hays Scholarship sent Lundeen to Florence, Italy for a year where the works of the old masters inspired his ambition to sculpt for Read More