The museum's tiled Fountain Court

The museum's main atrium (seen here from the south) contains a café and gift shop. Dale Chihuly's Inside and Out can be seen at the far end.

From the balcony at the north end of the atrium, one can see another Chihuly work, Glowing Gemstone Polyvitro Chandelier, hanging above the café.

The Joslyn Art Museum is the principal fine arts museum in Omaha, Nebraska. It is the only museum in the state with a comprehensive permanent collection. Although it includes works from antiquity to the present day, its greatest strengths are in nineteenth and twentieth century American and European art. Download high resolution version (3008x2000, 4616 KB) Fountain court at the Joslyn Art Museum Taken 01/2004 by Dan Smith File links The following pages link to this file: Omaha, Nebraska Joslyn Art Museum Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Joslyn Fountain Court Image:Joslyn Fountain Court. ... Download high resolution version (3008x2000, 4616 KB) Fountain court at the Joslyn Art Museum Taken 01/2004 by Dan Smith File links The following pages link to this file: Omaha, Nebraska Joslyn Art Museum Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Joslyn Fountain Court Image:Joslyn Fountain Court. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2933x1917, 4183 KB) The atrium of Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, looking north from the cafe; Dale Chihulys Inside and Out is visible against the far window Taken 01/2005 by User:Rdsmith4. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2933x1917, 4183 KB) The atrium of Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, looking north from the cafe; Dale Chihulys Inside and Out is visible against the far window Taken 01/2005 by User:Rdsmith4. ... Dale Chihuly has become famous for his intricate, vividly-colored, eye-catching glasswork. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2000x3008, 4508 KB) The atrium of Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, looking south from the balcony; Dale Chihulys Glowing Gemstone Polyvitro Chandelier is hanging above the cafe Taken 01/2005 by User:Rdsmith4. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2000x3008, 4508 KB) The atrium of Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, looking south from the balcony; Dale Chihulys Glowing Gemstone Polyvitro Chandelier is hanging above the cafe Taken 01/2005 by User:Rdsmith4. ... A museum is typically a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment. ... For other uses, see Omaha (disambiguation). ... Official language(s) English Capital Lincoln Largest city Omaha Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 16th 200,520 km² 340 km 690 km 0. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s The 20th century lasted from 1901 to 2000 in the Gregorian calendar (often from (1900 to 1999 in common usage). ... Medieval Art Main article: Medieval art Art during Medieval times was almost exclusively concerned with Christianity. ...

The museum opened in 1931, the product of a private donation from the Joslyn family, whose name it bears. It occupies a large and impressive Art Deco building designed by Alan McDonald, largely constructed of marble of many different kinds, close to downtown Omaha. There are many decorative panels on Native American themes. A substantial extension, designed by Sir Norman Foster, opened in 1994. 1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Asheville City Hall. ... Marble For the glass spheres, see marbles. ... An Atsina named Assiniboin Boy Native Americans in the United States (also known as Indians, American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Original Americans) are the indigenous peoples within the territory that is now encompassed by the continental United States and their descendants in... The Armadillo, Sir Norman Fosters Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank OM Kt (born June 1, 1935) is a British architect. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV in Roman) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

The permanent collections are:

• Ancient, including an exceptional collection of Greek pottery
• European: 16th and 17th century works include paintings by Veronese, Titian, Claude Lorrain and El Greco. However the strongest collections are from the 19th century, including romantic works by Delacroix and Gustave Doré, realist works by Corot and Gustave Courbet, and an impressionist works by Degas, Monet, Pissarro, and Renoir
• American: the collection includes early American portraiture by James Peale and Mather Brown; many works by painters of the Hudson River School, realist works by Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, and works by the American impressionists Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase
• Western American: including important collections of work by the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer based on his 1832-34 journey to the Missouri River frontier, and by Alfred Jacob Miller, also illustrating the West of the 1830s.
• Native American: including both traditional works and work done under the influence of, or in reaction against, European conventions and training.
• Twentieth Century: a wide range of 20th century painting and sculpture is represented, including paintings by Henri Matisse, Stuart Davis, Theodore Roszak, John Sloan and Robert Henri, and sculpture by Deborah Butterfield, Robert Haozous, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt and Martin Puryear. The collection stresses significant American artistic movements, including regionalism (with paintings by Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton) and Abstract Expressionism (with work by Jackson Pollock, Hans Hofmann, and Helen Frankenthaler) and Pop Art (with work by George Segal and Tom Wesselmann).

Although the best known names appear in the European and American collections, it is probably the Western American and Native American collections that have the greatest importance as collections, allowing a rare opportunity to study these genres and periods of art as well as giving an important insight into the history of the western United States. Unfired green ware pottery on a traditional drying rack at Conner Prairie living history museum. ... The Battle of Lepanto by Paolo Veronese Veronese is the name usually used to refer to painter Paolo Veronese; alternatively it means someone or something from Verona, Italy. ... Titian. ... Seaport by Claude Lorrain Claude Lorrain (Lorraine, c1604 - Rome, November 23, 1682) was a French painter, active in 17th century Italy, and considered a great Baroque landscape painters. ... El Greco is cool External links El Greco: Biography and Works El Greco at Olgas Gallery El Greco at Web Gallery of Art Some of his paintings [1] [2] [3] Trivia Greek composer Vangelis Papathanassiou (born March 29, 1943) published a symphonic album in 1998 called El Greco, inspired... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Eugène Delacroix (portrait by Nadar) Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (April 26, 1798 - August 13, 1863) was an important painter from the French romantic period. ... Doré photographed by Felix Nadar. ... Realism is commonly defined as a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary. ... Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (portrait by Nadar) Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (July 26, 1796 – February 22, 1875) was a French landscape painter. ... Gustave Courbet (portrait by Nadar) Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (June 10, 1819 – December 31, 1877) was a French painter. ... Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists who began publicly exhibiting their art in the 1860s. ... Edgar Degas (July 19, 1834 - September 27, 1917) was a French painter and sculptor. ... Oscar-Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926), French impressionist painter. ... The garden at Pontoise, painted 1877. ... The name Renoir refers to more than one person. ... Roman-Egyptian funeral portrait of a young boy A portrait is a painting, photograph, or other artistic representation of a person. ... James Peale (1749-May 24, 1831) was an American painter, best known for his miniature and still life paintings, and a younger brother of noted painter Charles Willson Peale. ... Mather Brown (christened October 11, 1761–May 25, 1831) was a portrait and historical painter, born in Boston, Massachusetts but active in England. ... The Hudson River school was a 19th century American group of landscape painters whose approach was related to romanticism. ... Winslow Homer Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 - September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter. ... Eakins Max Schmitt in a single scull Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins (July 25, 1844 - June 25, 1916) was a painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. ... Frederick Childe Hassam (October 17, 1859 - August 27, 1935) was an American Impressionist painter. ... William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 - October 25, 1916) was an American painter known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. ... Karl Bodmer, (February 6, 1809-October 30, 1893), was a Swiss painter of the American West. ... The Missouri River is a tributary of the Mississippi River in the United States. ... Photo of Henri Matisse taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1933 Henri Matisse (December 31, 1869 – November 3, 1954) was a French artist, particularly noted for his striking use of colour. ... Stuart Davis (December 7, 1892 - June 24, 1964), American painter, was born in Philadelphia . ... Theodore Roszak (1907–1981) was a Polish-American sculptor and painter. ... John French Sloan (August 2, 1871 - September 8, 1951) was a U.S. artist. ... Robert Henri, by Gertrude Kasebier (1900) Snow in New York 1902, oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Robert Henri (June 25, 1865-1929) was an American painter notable for his teaching and leadership of the Ashcan School movement in art. ... Untitled sculpture from 1990 Donald Clarence Judd (June 3, 1928 - February 12, 1994) was a minimalist artist (a term he stridently disavowed) whose work sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy. ... Four-Sided Pyramid, created by LeWitt in 1997, stands in the scupture garden of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Sol LeWitt (born 1928 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a conceptual artist and painter. ... Puryears Box and Pole, 1977 Puryears Sanctuary, 1982 Martin Puryear (born May 23, 1941) is an African-American sculptor. ... In art, regionalism is used to describe a realist painting style wherein artists shunned the city and rapidly developing technological advances to focus on scenes of rural life. ... American Gothic (1930) 2004 Iowa state quarter Grant Wood (February 13, 1891 – February 12, 1942) was a United States painter, born in Anamosa, Iowa. ... Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 - January 19, 1975, also Tom Benton) was an American muralist of the Regionalist school. ... This USPS stamp illustrates Pollocks drip technique. ... Pollocks Galaxy, a part of the Joslyn Art Museums permanent collection Blue Poles Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American artist and a major force in the Abstract Expressionism movement. ... Hans Hofmann (1880 - 1966) was an abstract expressionist painter. ... Helen Frankenthaler (born December 12, 1928) is an American post-painterly abstraction artist. ... House I, created by Roy Lichtenstein in 1996, is designed to be an optical illusion. ... George Segal George Segal (born February 13, 1934) is a well-known Jewish American film and stage actor who was born in Great Neck, Long Island, New York. ... Tom Wesselmann (February 23, 1931-December 17, 2004) was an American pop artist who specialised in found art collages. ...

In addition to its permanent collections, the museum mounts regular special exhibitions. It also serves as an important regional educational and artistic resource, and its building includes an auditorium where regular concerts are held.

External links

• Official Joslyn Art Museum website