Great Plains Studies Friends purchase Rey painting Nebraska artist Jim Rey has been awarded the 2008 Purchase Award by the Friends of the Center for Great Plains Studies. The award was made at the fourth annual Invitational Art Show and Sale May 1 at the Great Plains Art Museum. Rey's oil painting, "Fishing for a Catch," depicting a scene from a ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills, will be added to the permanent collection of the Great Plains Art Museum. "Fishing for a Catch" is part of the "Dangerous Romance: The Baroque Energy of American Cowboy Art" exhibition at the Great Plains Art Museum. The exhibition is open through July 27. For more information, go to www.unl.edu/plains/gallery/gallery.shtml.
