Joslyn Art Museum

The Joslyn Art Museum is the most important art museum in the U.S. state of Nebraska. It is located in the center of the city of Omaha and is the only museum in the state with a comprehensive permanent exhibition epoch. The collection of the museum includes works from antiquity to the present day. However, the collection focuses on European and American works from the 19th and 20th century.

History

The museum was donated by Sarah H. Joslyn in memory of her husband George A. Joslyn and opened in 1931. Located in a large Art Deco building, designed by architects John and Alan Madconald. In its construction of 38 different types of marble have been used, but it dominates pink marble from Georgia. The friezes on the outside of the building date from the sculptor John David Brcin and refer to the inhabitants of the Great Plains and show both the original indigenous peoples and the later European settlers.

A significant expansion took place in 1994., The responsible architect Sir Norman Foster. The cultivation was opened in 1994. In 2008, they began the construction of the Joslyn Sculpture Garden. This opened in summer 2009 at the annual Jazz Festival. The garden has since also hosts this annual festival, which is celebrated in July and August for 25 years.

Collection

The collection of the museum comprises:

• Works of antiquity with a particularly large collection of Greek ceramics.
• European Art of the 16th and 17th centuries. The collection also includes images of Veronese, Titian, Claude Lorrain, Massimo Stanzione and El Greco.
• European art of the 19th century is one of the main collections of the museum. The collection also includes works by Delacroix and Gustave Doré, Gustave Courbet and Corot. Impressionism is represented, among others Degas, Monet, Pissarro, and Renoir.
• American Art: The collection includes early American works of James Peale and Mather Brown. The inventory also includes many works of the Hudson River School, namely, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins and pictures of the American Impressionist Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase.
• Works from the period of exploration of the North American West. This includes an important collection of diaries by Maximilian zu Wied - Neuwied and the watercolors of the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, which arose during the trip in the Interior of North America in the years 1832 to 1834, and the collection of the printing plates by Karl Bodmer. See details here. The museum also has works by Alfred Jacob Miller, who have the American West in the 1830s on the subject.
• Works of the indigenous peoples of the American West. This includes both traditional works and works, which were under the influence of European settlers.
• 20th century: The collection of the 20th century include works by Henri Matisse, Stuart Davis, Theodore Roszak, John Sloan and Robert Henri, sculptures by Deborah Butterfield, Robert Haozous, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt and Martin Puryear.