Collections Joslyn Art Museum

from balcony @ east end of atrium, 1 can see chihuly work, glowing gemstone polyvitro chandelier, hanging above café.



ancient, including exceptional collection of greek pottery
european: 16th- , 17th-century works include paintings veronese, titian, claude lorrain, rembrandt , el greco. strongest collections 19th century, including romantic works delacroix , gustave doré, realist works corot , gustave courbet, , impressionist works degas, monet, pissarro, , renoir
american: collection includes american portraiture james peale , mather brown; many works painters of hudson river school, realist works winslow homer , thomas eakins, , works american impressionists childe hassam , william merritt chase
western american: including important collections of work swiss artist karl bodmer based on 1832-34 journey missouri river frontier, , alfred jacob miller, illustrating west of 1830s.
native american: including both traditional works , work done under influence of, or in reaction against, european conventions , training.
twentieth century: wide range of 20th-century painting , sculpture represented, including paintings henri matisse, stuart davis, theodore roszak, john sloan , robert henri, , sculpture deborah butterfield, robert haozous, donald judd, sol lewitt , martin puryear. collection stresses significant american artistic movements, including regionalism (with paintings grant wood , thomas hart benton) , abstract expressionism (with work jackson pollock, hans hofmann, , helen frankenthaler) , pop art (with work george segal , tom wesselmann).

although best known names appear in european , american collections, western american , native american collections have greatest importance collections, allowing rare opportunity study these genres , periods of art giving important insight history of western united states.

in addition permanent collections, museum mounts regular special exhibitions. serves important regional educational , artistic resource, , building includes auditorium regular concerts held.