Volume IV, Issue I, February 2011 Agrarian Art Newsletter Volume IV, Issue I February 2011 Board of Directors: Anna Nolan Covault Mark L. Moseman Our mission is to be the National Center Calendar of Events: Curator’s Note: Allen Covault for preserving, viewing, and learning Michael L. Moravec Matthew Jacobson: “You have a chance to get what you want if you go out and work Paul T. Perske about exceptional Agrarian Art. Wisconsin Workhorses for it, but you must really work, and not just talk about it.” Ryan Cameron On view through February 27, 2011 – Georgia O’Keefe Carol Moseman Tim Wollmer Reception: Saturday, Feb. 26, 5-7pm We ‘really work’ to build a world class art collection. The Agrarian- pertaining to lands, fields, or their tenure heart of every great art museum is a collection of major artworks Artist Workshop with M. Jacobson representing the brand of the museum. On the fourth anniversary Saturday, February 26, 2011 of beginning in March of 2007, we have the foundation of a great Agrarian Art collection. Primarily from donations and loans, works by major historically Jim Hamil: Farmland USA recognized American artists Homer, Dunn, Lougheed, Nichols, Benton, Wood, March 2 - May 15, 2011 Curry, Sandzen, and Gwathmey have attracted visitors from 43 states and Reception: Saturday, March 5, 3-5pm several foreign countries. We have indeed become the National Center for Exceptional Agrarian Art. To get repeat visits and grow this from 80% to 100% Artist Workshop with Jim Hamil of the USA, we must build an even more impressive collection of art by Sat. and Sunday, March 5-6, 2011 historically recognized major American artists. We have only just begun to partner with generous donors and lenders to grow Layer Upon Layer: this collection. We seek more significant art by the aforementioned artists. We’d Elaine Lierly Jones & Jerene Kruse also like to add works by the following historically recognized major American March 16 - May 8, 2011 artists: Peter Hurd, Raymond Eastwood, Eric Sloan, Andrew Wyeth, May- Reception: Sunday, March 27, 1-4pm nard Dixon, Rockwell Kent, N.C. Wyeth, Maxfield Parrish, Grandma Moses, Eastman Johnson, Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock, Ogden Pleiss- Grant Wood Forum ner, Norman Rockwell, Marvin Cone, and Georgia O’Keefe. Yes, modernist Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 5:30-7pm artists Hopper, Pollock and O’Keefe did create significant Agrarian Art. We need Museum Hours: to educate the public about this phenomenon. We can’t tell this full story of Wed- Sat 10am-4pm, Sunday 1pm-4pm American Agrarian Art until we add these works to our collection to show how Appointments and tours available this art relates to other important Agrarian Art. We’re very thankful to generous Free admission art collectors who occasionally donate and loan these historical works to our 575 E Street, David City, NE 68632 collection. 402.367.4488 www.bonecreek.org By comparison we’re doing fairly well at adding contemporary Agrarian Art to our collection. Affordable prices allow more collectors to donate. We’re also

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Our new Featured Exhibition will be a retrospective of paintings by Jim 402.367.4488 David City, NE 68632 NE City, David Hamil, one of America’s foremost watercolor artists. Jim encouraged me when Street E 575 I started painting many years ago. Our Emerging Artist Exhibition features two artists. As the guest juror, I awarded Jerene Kruse “Best of Show” for her

ceramic work at the last annual juried exhibit of the Columbus Area Artists 3 No. Permit David City David Association. Jerene joins Elaine Lierly Jones, a Signature member of Mid PAID

America Pastel Society, in an exciting two person exhibition. In March please Postage Non- Profit ORG ORG Profit Non- Dale Nichols, When Day is Done, 1951, Gold Seal Puzzle, come and experience these compelling exhibitions at the museum. Private Collection Loan -Mark L. Moseman, Curator NEWS from the field Agrarian Legacy- Gallery 92 West Meet the Board- Ryan Cameron has ARTIST WORKSHOP of the Fremont Area Art Association is served on the Board of Directors since exhibiting artwork from Bone Creek 2009 acting as architectural liaison. with Jim Hamil Museum’s collection. “Agrarian After graduating with numerous awards Watercolorist Jim Hamil will be Legacy: Works from the Bone Creek and accolades from the UNL Master’s teaching a two-day workshop in David Collection” will be on view Feb. 8- 28, of Architecture program in 2008, he City, March 5-6, Saturday 9am-1pm 2011 in Fremont, Nebraska. traveled to Europe to study European and/or Sunday 1-5pm. This is an Gift Shop- Help us decide what architecture on his own. Returning, he incredible opportunity to learn from Farmland USA merchandise we need to expand our gift obtained a position at the Lincoln firm, one of the best in a setting where you Jim Hamil: shop by taking a short survey. Go to VIA. His exceptional design skills led get individual time with the instructor On the eve of a new book, Jim Hamil nature of watercolor it is not easily Hamil teaches watercolor workshops www.bonecreek.org/join.php by his passion for detail helped him at a very low cost of $20/per day in is looking back on his long successful painted over either. One has to be very across the country. He has been named Jacobson Workshop- Sign up for while designing hospi- advance or $25 at the door, plus $5 for career. After working for Hallmark knowledgeable of his subject to paint it a "Friend of Education" by Phi Delta the Content and Compositional Choices tals. Ryan is LEED materials. Space is limited, so sign up cards for fifteen years, Hamil turned to right the first time. Hamil knows Kappa (an education association) workshop with guest artist Matthew Accredited as well as now for one or two painting full time. He earned a degree intimately the landscapes of the Mid- because of the teaching and painting Jacobson, Feb. 26, 2-5pm. $20 in an EDAC architecture days. For more from the University of Kansas in Fine west that he paints, whether it’s how demonstrations he does for schools, advance, $25 at the door. professional. information about Art in 1958 and has always been drawn fall leaves form the shape of a tree, or especially in the Kansas City metro materials call to local subjects for inspiration. Hamil how a blanket of snow reflects the sun’s area (although he has done so in COLLECTION 402-367-4488 or has a long resume of exhibitions, light making it appear shades of pink Colorado, Texas, and Nebraska). register online at awards, and inclusion in publications. and blue. Hamil captures a full range of Local students will gain an apprecia- Grant Wood- A fragment of the bonecreek.org, and Two of the most notable awards that texture and depth. He is also recognized tion of the wonders of watercolor, as Corn Room mural from the Chieftain click on Events. Hamil has received are the American for being a careful observer. When the artist has generously arranged to Hotel, Council Bluffs, Iowa is on view Royal Western Artist of the Year and painting from life an artist must give painting demonstrations in the through May 15. Wood painted this DALE NICHOLS the Kansas Governor’s Arts Award. examine closely the color and shape of David City, Nebraska schools. historic mural in 1926 and the Bluffs CORNER Today you can find Hamil painting in the details to make it convincing, all Arts Council has a campaign to restore his studio—the new addition on the with only a gesture of watery pigment. Images: Top (left to right): Rusted Roof Tim and Lori Wollmer and Mark Moseman, and reassemble the pieces. Learn more Blockbuster exhibition “Dale back of their home. He paints mainly Hamil is an excellent teacher of the Ranch House, Yamp River Valley Curator with Vivian Trowbridge, Volunteer in on April 27, 5:30-7pm. by commission now and for galleries techniques needed to successfully Winter, The Turning Season, Below: the background at Jacobson exhibition. Nichols: Transcending Regionalism” is which carry his work. achieve a sense of space and form on a Roadside Farm Winter, all watercolors fast approaching. The long awaited This collection of watercolors from two-dimensional surface. from the artist’s collection. Emerging Artist Gallery in the Legion Building survey of Nichols’ subject and style the artist’s collection gives tribute to will open May 20 and run through Farmland USA, a book that was Layer Upon Layer: November 18, 2011. The Collection published in 1975 and sold over 15,000 gallery will be cleared out to make copies. The show includes farmsteads, Elaine Lierly Jones & Jerene Kruse room for the exquisite paintings fields, feedlots, and even larger cities The world is not flat. Nature is not two borrowed from museums and private all vital to life in the Heartland. Hamil dimensional. Through form and propor- collections across the country. takes an artistic perspective to the tion, art communicates the beauty of our Lenders Ron and Sheila Ritsema beautiful varied terrain and types of environment. Visit an exhibition of pottery of Michigan recently visited the March agriculture that can be found within this and pastels that captures the layers of color museum to loan their Guatemalan oil region. His artistic eye captures for and texture in the natural world. Jones and 16- painting. viewers the often overlooked places or Kruse’s artworks compliment each other May88 underappreciated moments, which as they invite viewers to look closely and upon consideration speak deeply to the consider the symbolism of form and color. culture of the region. Kruse of Albion, Nebraska and Jones of Though watercolor is a rather fast Kansas City will present their most recent working medium it is not an easy works at a reception on Sunday, March 27, medium. Once an artist makes a stroke 1-4pm. with his brush, that’s it. It can’t be Images: Top: Jerene Kruse, pottery, artist Curators with the Ritsemas and Road from the taken off and because of the transparent collection, Bottom: Elaine Lierly Jones, Flint Hills Lake by Dale Nichols. pastel, artist collection.