The Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska is the largest art museum in the state, housing over 11,000 works of art. It features a permanent collection with an emphasis on 19th and 20th century American and European art. You can see works by El Greco, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pierre August Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, Grant Wood, Jackson Pollock, and George Segal among others.
Perhaps though the Joslyn Art Museum is best known for its collection of art of the American West. As well as its collection of Swiss artist Karl Bodmer’s watercolors and prints documenting his 1832-34 journey to the Missouri River frontier with German Prince Maximilian of Wied.
You can expect eight to ten special exhibitions each year at the museum. Exhibitions for 2009 are:
- WOOD viewings from Jan. 24 – May 24, 2009
- SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY: The Art of Alfred Jacob Miller viewings from Feb. 7 – May 10, 2009
- A DAVID SMALL WORLD viewings from March 7 – May 24, 2009
- THE INDIAN PORTRAIT GALLERY OF THOMAS L. MCKENNEY viewings from March 7 – June 14, 2009
- RIVER OF GOLD: Precolumbian Treasures from Sitio Conte viewings from June 6 – Sept. 6, 2009
- GOLDEN LEGACY: 65 Years of Golden Book Illustrations viewings from June 13 – Sept. 6, 2009
- A CENTURY OF RETABLOS: The Dennis and Janis Lyon Collection of New Mexican Santos, 1780–1880 viewings from July 5 – Oct. 4, 2009
- MASTERPIECES OF MEXICAN FOLK ART: The Pat and Judd Wagner Collection viewings from July 5 – Nov. 29, 2009
