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   from the issue of April 29, 2004

     
 
Lewis and Clark art exhibit features various discoveries

“Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains: The Natural History of the Expedition of Discovery,” an art exhibition featuring the flora and fauna discovered by Lewis and Clark while on the Great Plains, runs May 7 through Aug. 29 in the Great Plains Art Collection in the Christlieb Gallery, 1155 Q St.


This photo of bison by Paul Johnsgard is included in the exhibition “Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains: The...
 
This photo of bison by Paul Johnsgard is included in the exhibition “Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains: The Natural History of the Expedition of Discovery.”

 
The exhibit is guest-curated by Paul A. Johnsgard, UNL Foundation Professor emeritus of biological sciences, and includes photographs by Jon Farrar, Bob Gress and Robert B. Kaul, as well as photographs, drawings and sculptures by Johnsgard. An opening reception is from 7-9 p.m. May 7 in the Christlieb Gallery with a curator’s talk at 7:30 p.m., followed by comments from the exhibit photographers.

Johnsgard has written more than 40 books, including Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains, The Nature of Nebraska: Ecology and Biodiversity and Crane Music: A Natural History of American Cranes. Gress is director of the Great Plains Nature Center in Wichita, Kan., and Kaul is also an emeritus professor at UNL. Farrar is senior editor for Nebraskaland magazine.

When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set off up the Missouri River on May 14, 1804, with a crew of more than 40 men comprising the Corps of Discovery, they had no detailed knowledge of what lands or adventures might lay before them. When the group returned in late September 1806, they had made more discoveries of the landscapes, rivers, native cultures, zoology and botany of our continent than has any North American scientific expedition before or since.

This exhibition illustrates the nearly 150 plants and animals encountered and documented by Lewis and Clark within the boundaries of the Great Plains.

“Dr. Johnsgard has brought together a lifetime of experience in the aesthetic and natural history of the Plains and he does an amazing job of bringing the science and art together to reveal the sheer volume and beauty of what these explorers were seeing for the first time,” said Reece Summers, curator of the Center for Great Plains Studies Great Plains Art Collection.

The Great Plains Art Collection hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and from 1:30-5 p.m. Sundays. For information, call 472-6220.


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