1952, Hubbard, Nebraska – View artwork Native Nebraskan Debra Gengler-Copple received her B.A. degree from Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa. She worked as a graphic artist, but her passion for painting wildlife has redirected her career, taking her to the national parks to view and photograph wildlife firsthand. Gengler-Copple is a Signature member of the Read More
John A. Finch
c. 1860s – View artwork J. A. Finch was sent to Kearney, Nebraska by Harper’s Weekly (A Journal of Civilization) magazine to cover the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) reunion in September of 1888. Finch was to provide views of the Camp Brooke and Camp Morrow encampments, the mock naval engagements on Lake Kearney, Read More
Katherine (Kady) Burnap Faulkner
1901, Syracuse, New York – 1977, Kenosha, Wisconsin View artwork Praised by former students as an exceptional teacher with a serious, no-nonsense approach and an unending devotion to the arts, Katherine Faulkner was born on June 23, 1901, in Syracuse, New York. Little is known about her family or her childhood. She contracted polio at a Read More
Michael Farrell
1947, Indianapolis, Indiana – View artwork Originally from Indianapolis, Indiana, Michael Farrell began taking photographs and making assembled objects during his college years at Indiana University where he received his A.B. degree in Fine Arts in 1969. After earning an M.S. degree in Filmmaking and Visual Design at Chicago’s Institute of Design (now the Illinois Read More
Gerald Farm
1935, Grand Island, Nebraska – View Artwork Gerald Farm was born on March 8, 1935 in Grand Island, Nebraska. He received his BA from Kearney State College in 1961, after serving four years in the Navy as an illustrator in the Art and Animation Department of the Naval Photographic Center in Washington, D.C. While serving Read More
John Falter
1910, Plattsmouth, Nebraska – 1982, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania View Artwork John Falter was born in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, in 1910. His family moved to Falls City in 1916, where his father established a clothing store. As a high school student, Falter created a comic strip, Down Thru the Ages, which was published in the Falls City Journal. Read More
James Eisentrager
1929, Alvord, Iowa – 2002, Lincoln, NE View artwork James Eisentrager was born in Alvord, Iowa in 1929 and received his BA in 1951 from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1961. He served in a reconnaissance unit in the Air Force for some time, and Read More
Terence Duren
1904, Shelby, Nebraska – 1968, Columbus, Nebraska View Artwork Terence R. Duren was a leading Nebraska artist during themid 20th century. Duren, who lived most of his life in Shelby, Nebraska, is most widely known for his regionalist works, which drew on his rural Nebraska upbringing. Duren began to paint when he was stricken with Read More
Augustus W. Dunbier
1888, Polk County, Nebraska – 1997, Omaha, Nebraska View Artwork Augustus Dunbier was born on a farm between Shelby and Osceola in Polk County, Nebraska and lived most of his life in Omaha, Nebraska where he became well-established as a portrait painter and private teacher. He was one of early Nebraska’s most successful and influential Read More
Aaron Douglas
1899, Topeka, Kansas – 1979, Nashville, Tennessee View artwork Douglas received his BA from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln in 1922. He later studied at the Winold Reiss art School in New York and In Paris before obtaining his MA from Columbia university in 1942. He is acknowledged as one of the important figures Read More
