'Recent Acquisitions' is Great Plains Art exhibition Nov. 4-Dec. 18

A new exhibition, "Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection" will be on display at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St., Nov. 4 through Dec. 18.

Over the past four years, Mark and Carol Moseman of David City have given to the University of Nebraska Foundation partial and promised works of art from their private collection for the benefit of the Great Plains Art Museum. This exhibit will feature 40 of these works.

"Carol and I collected this artwork for personal enjoyment, and to give to the Great Plains Art Museum," Mark Moseman said. "We both grew up on farms within the Great Plains, and graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1969, the year we were married. Most of what we are came from those experiences. In this gift we are able to show our appreciation. We also hope that these artworks may help others appreciate the unique environment of the Great Plains, and the values of those who live here.

"Taken as a whole, we want the paintings to be a rich fabric of different ways of looking at the same thing, the Great Plains. Though there are some very strong paintings that are worth collecting as individual works; we have tried to make the whole more important than any of the separate parts," he said.

In addition to the 40 works from the Moseman collection, another 18 works acquired through donation and purchase over the past year will also be exhibited. The most recent acquisition, a gift of Edward Schmidt, Eleanor McAuliffe and James Schmidt in honor of their parents, Donald J. and Kathryn F. Schmidt, is a watercolor painting by Native American artist Kingsley "King" D. Kuka (1947-2004) titled "Wind Coming."

Among the first class of artists to graduate from the Institute for Native American Art in Santa Fe, N.M., Kuka was pivotal in the growing Native American Art Movement, influencing an entire younger generation of Native American artists. His work appeared in galleries across the West, and in New York, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands.

The exhibition is free and open to the public, as is an opening reception, from 7 to 9 p.m. Nov. 4. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays 1:30-5 p.m. It is closed Mondays.

The link below is to a color JPEG image of "Wind Coming," watercolor, 18 inches by 22 inches.

CONTACT: Reece Summers, Curator, Great Plains Art Museum, (402) 472-0599