Drawing on global weaving traditions, the history of painting and sculpture, graphic design, and architecture, Sheila Hicks has redefined how fiber is used to create art, influencing a generation of artists. Sheila Hicks: Material Voices explores sixty years of her prolific career through four diverse perspectives. Karin Campbell considers how Hicks’s oeuvre has taken shape over time and highlights the essential links between the artist’s work and lived experience. Ted Kooser reflects on the aesthetic and poetic power Hicks’s work, while Jason Farago delves into Hicks’s incomparable eye for color. Finally, a conversation between the artist and Monique Lévi-Strauss looks back to formative experiences from early in Hicks’s life and career.

Sheila Hicks: Material Voices

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Joslyn Art Museum

Adolph Gottlieb, paintings, 1921-1956

Gottlieb, Adolph

Roberts, Miriam (Introduction by)

Angels and urchins: Images of children at the Joslyn

Sturges, Hollister

Legacy of the West

David C Hunt

Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the expedition of the German prince Maximilian of Wied and the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer to North America, the traveling exhibition âViews of a Vanishing Frontierâ visually recreates the historic journey into the early-nineteenth-century wilderness. The show was organized by the Joslyn Art Museum, where The Inter-North Art Foundation, owner of the priceless Bodmer collection, has placed it on permanent loan. It depicts the epic journey chronologically, combining Bodmerâs magnificent watercolors, Maximilianâs written accounts of the expedition, and artifacts collected by Maximilian.
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This catalogue offers a broad sampling from the showâthirty-four color and thirty-five black and white reproductions that will delight the most demanding connoisseurs. The pictorial record is complemented by selections from Maximilianâs writings. In addition, a long essay by John C. Ewers, Ethnologist Emeritus, Smithsonian Institution, examines the ethnological and historical significance of Bodmerâs pictures of Indians, which authorities have judged the finest, most faithful likenesses made before the introduction of photography.
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The book includes a biography of Maximilianâthe prototypical nineteenth-century scientistâby Joseph C. Porter, curator of western American history and ethnology at the Center for Western Studies, Joslyn Art Museum. In a third essay, David C. Hunt, curator of western American art, and Marsha V. Gallagher, curator of material culture at the Center for Western Studies, trace the expeditionâs travels to the upper Missouri and review their extraordinary trip of 1832-34.
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Published by the Center for Western Studies, Joslyn Art Museum and distributed by the University of Nebraska Press.

Views of a Vanishing Frontier

History

Gallagher, Marsha V.

Hunt, David C.

Porter, Joseph C.

Erers, John C.

Americas

This historic 1933 publication documents the important collection of Egyptian, Greek and Italian pottery assembled in the early years of what is now the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. This collection, brought together in part for teaching purposes, contains a wide range of classic pottery types and is illustrative of the development of pottery over time in these Mediterranean cultures. The volume consists of a portfolio containing loose, unbound plates and explanatory text with catalogue, as is the standard for the CVA.

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Joslyn Art Museum Omaha, Fasc 1 (USA Fasc 21) (Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum United States of America Fasc 1)

Steiner, Ann

History & Criticism

A well illustrated exhibition catalogue which showcases the Greek pottery collection of the Joslyn Art Museum through commentary on 41 vases. Introductory essays explore Greek culture through the vase painting, and give an overview of the archaeology of Greek vases.

Ancient Greek Pottery, Joslyn Art Museum

Beye, Charles Rowan

Shows examples of modern flower arranging, discusses traditional styles, color, dried flowers, and food and flowers, and suggests arrangements for living rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and baths

New Art of Italy: Chia, Clemente, Cucchi, Paladino

Day, Holliday T.

Holiday T. Day

Hollister Sturges

Midlands Invitational 1990: Painting and Sculpture : Joslyn Art Museum, September 15-November 4, 1990

Beal, Graham William John

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