Joslyn Art Museum

A PINK MARBLE MASTERPIECE EXHIBITING OVER 11,000 WORKS OF ART INSIDE AND OUT

Kim recommends allowing at least an hour (or two) in ART WORKS, so the entire family has time to create art together. Joslyn Art Museum’s building is a masterpiece in itself and one of the country’s finest examples of Art Deco architecture; some 38 marbles from around the world are incorporated in its interior design. Inside, larger-than-life works by Dale Chihuly on either end of the atrium set the tone for what you’ll see during your visit: memorable multi-dimensional works of art. Permanent collections of art ranging from ancient times to the present house works by iconic artists Rembrandt, Monet, Degas, Pollock, Renoir and more. Major temporary exhibitions are displayed throughout the year.

Flex your creativity at ART WORKS, a 1,500 sq. ft. interactive space complete with nine activity stations for creating your own masterpieces like stop-motion animated movies and hi-tech paintings. Wander outside to the garden galleries, like the colorful Discovery Garden complete with 20 artworks. Fun Fact: “Judy Crook 2,” a hypnotic digital animation by international installation artist Jennifer Steinkamp, was featured in a 2020 NPR article noting that it “has recuperative powers for anything that ails you.” First satisfy your appetite for art, then for your hunger with lunch or a snack at the Café Durham located in the Joslyn’s atrium. Before leaving, stop in the Hitchcock Museum Shop and select from an array of distinctive gifts and souvenirs. General admission is free; mobile and guided tours are available.

MASTERPIECES

CHIHULY: INSIDE & OUT BY DALE CHIHULY - A vibrant 30 ft.-tall glass sculpture made of over 2,000 hand blown glass pieces weighing approximately 15,000 pounds GALAXY BY JACKSON POLLOCK The artist’s iconic 1947 canvas, one of four poured paintings he created that year named after the night sky

LITTLE DANCER, FOURTEEN YEARS OLD BY EDGAR DEGAS - Plaster that is the model from which 20 bronzes were cast based on the classic 1881 sculpture THE MEADOW BY CLAUDE MONET Excellent example of Impressionism art PORTRAIT OF DIRCK VAN OS BY REMBRANDT VAN RIJN - 1658 painting of the prominent Dutch citizen; restored and reintroduced in 2014

STONE CITY, IOWA BY GRANT WOOD Prime example of Wood’s work depicting small-town ordinary folk and Midwestern vistas

YOUNG GIRLS AT THE PIANO BY PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR - Painting depicting French family life in the late nineteenth century; selected for a government commission in 1892 for a government commission in 1892

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

ANCIENT - Antiquities from Egypt, Rome and Greece, including Greek pottery AMERICAN - Paintings and furniture alongside sculpture and decorative arts

NATIVE AMERICAN - Historic works of art by native peoples of North America

ART OF THE AMERICAN WEST - Paintings, drawings and sculptures by artists and explorers of the American West ASIAN - 4,000-year overview of Asian civilization highlighting the cultures of China, Japan, Korea, India, Tibet, and Southeast Asia

EUROPEAN - Nineteenth century works of European art LATIN AMERICAN - Spanish colonial art from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries

POSTWAR & CONTEMPORARY Paintings, sculpture, and digital projection by leading figures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries