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from the issue of February 9, 2006
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Sheldon adds eight pieces to collection
BY TOM WHITE, SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
The renewal of a tradition that delivered art by then-unknowns Edward Hopper, Robert Motherwell and Willem de Kooning to UNL has expanded the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery's permanent collection with the purchase of eight works from today's up and coming artists.
Approved Feb. 6, the Sheldon purchased seven works on display in "Singular Expressions: A Sheldon Invitational." An eighth piece - Kojo Griffin's "Untitled (elephant watching videos)" - was commissioned and purchased before the exhibition opened in November.
The purchase included: "Bait Shop," by David Bates, 1994-1995, oil on canvas; "Astrid," by Amy Cutler, 2005, gouache on paper; "Self-Portrait (Yellow Ball and Squirrel)," by Susan Hauptman, 1998, charcoal and pastel on paper; "gold and gourds on a marble pillow," by John Newman, 2005, carved and polished Turkish Afyon marble, gourds, gold leaf, papier mache, foam core, Japanese paper, acqua resin, wood putty and armature wire; "Untitled (7-89)," by Thomas Nozkowski, 1996, linen on panel; "Thankfully, you will have taught me freedom within constraints," by Lari Pittman, 1999, acrylic, alkyd and aerosol on mahogany panel; and "Phosphorescent Betty," by Jeanne Silverthorne, 2004, rubber, hair and phosphorescent pigment.
These acquisitions were made with private funds raised by the Nebraska Art Association, the Sheldon's dedicated support group, or with endowments that are restricted to the purchase of artwork. Members of the NAA Collections committee and its Sheldon Forum collectors group selected a number of the new works from the 32 pieces in the exhibition.
"I'm thrilled that we have been able to add a significant number of pieces from the exhibition to our collections," said Jan Driesbach, Sheldon director. "Curator Dan Siedell and I consciously selected artists whose work would complement our outstanding holdings of American art. It is particularly exciting to be able to bring in recent work that will allow our collections to better address issues that engage artists working today."
The invitational exhibition, which continues through Feb. 12, renews a tradition started in 1888 by the Haydon Art Club, the predecessor of today's NAA. Its purposes were to bring outstanding art to Nebraska and to acquire pieces for the permanent collection. The NAA invitationals, which were held annually until the early 1960s, were the source for many of the signature pieces for the Sheldon collection.
For more information go online to www.sheldon.unl.edu or call 472-2461.
To download photos of the new acquisitions as a pdf, click here.
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