Featured Exhibition

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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Highlights

A detail from "Wishing for the Farm" (1991) by Elizabeth Murray

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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"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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Edward Hopper's painting "Room in New York"

Sheldon Treasures: Edward Hopper and His Contemporaries

August 18, 2023 through December 21, 2023

Room in New York, one of the museum’s most esteemed paintings, is presented alongside works that contextualize Edward Hopper’s history and role among the early twentieth-century artists who shaped modern American art.
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Sheldon Museum of Art Main Content

Featured Exhibition

Outdoor Sculpture

Highlights

X: A Decade of Collecting, 2012–2022

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

Sheldon Treasures: Edward Hopper and His Contemporaries