First Friday offers cowboys, Civil War music, Artworks

 Excerpt of "Pointing Them North" by Olaf Wieghorst, which is featured in the "Cowboys from the Collection" exhibition at the Great Plains Art Museum. (Courtesy photo)
Excerpt of "Pointing Them North" by Olaf Wieghorst, which is featured in the "Cowboys from the Collection" exhibition at the Great Plains Art Museum. (Courtesy photo)

The Great Plains Art Museum will hold a special opening reception for its new exhibition, “Cowboys from the Collection,” from 5 to 7 p.m. Feb. 2. The event is free and open to the public.

The exhibition features many iterations of the cowboy ranging from portraits to action scenes. Photographs by L.A. Huffman, Charles W. Guildner, and George Tuck capture working cowboys. Romaticized versions grace canvases by Olaf Wieghorst, Frank Tenney Johnson, and Thomas Hart Benton and in bronzes by renowned cowboy artists Charles M. Russell and Frederic Remington.

Even a cowboy president and a few cowgirls make appearances. In the Wunder Library on the mezzanine level, visitors can browse through the Museum’s collection of Western novels.

More details at: https://go.unl.edu/pg3k