Featured Exhibition

X: A Decade of Collecting, 2012–2022

August 18, 2023 through December 21, 2023

This exhibition presents a snapshot of a point in the evolution of Sheldon’s holdings, surveying the 1,850 artworks that entered the collection from 2012 through 2022.
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Outdoor Sculpture

Discover Sheldon’s collection—outside.
Explore outdoor sculptures from Sheldon’s collection displayed year-round across the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s City and East Campuses. Use this map to create your own self-guided tour.
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A detail from "When Sounds Clash," a work on paper by Paul Anthony Smith

A Decade of Collecting Works on Paper, 2012–2022

August 18, 2023 through December 21, 2023

Exhibited in conjunction with X: A Decade of Collecting, this group of prints, drawings, and photographs is a representative selection of the 1,517 works on paper that entered the collection from 2012 through 2022.
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"Broken Pivot, Cherry County, Nebraska" by Andrew Moore

From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez

August 18, 2023 through December 21, 2023

This exhibition celebrates the unprecedented gift of more than ninety works donated by fifty American photographers to honor the writer Barry Lopez, best known for Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape, which received the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1986.
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Sheldon Museum of Art Main Content

Featured Exhibition

X: A Decade of Collecting, 2012–2022

Highlights

Outdoor Sculpture

A Decade of Collecting Works on Paper, 2012–2022

From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez