Works on Paper from the Collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art

As the first serious study and presentation of the Sheldon Museum of Art’s collection of works on paper, this catalog introduces students and art lovers alike to the largest, most international area of the museum’s holdings, which includes prints and drawings from the European Renaissance to the present. Like the other collection catalogs in the American Transnationalism series, this publication draws together a team of distinguished scholars and features some of the museum’s most iconic works. These include rarely seen yet important objects such as medieval manuscript illuminations and Renaissance prints; nineteenth-century drawings and prints by such artists as Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, and James McNeill Whistler; twentieth-century works by Peggy Bacon, George Bellows, Charles Demuth, Marjorie Organ Henri, John Marin, Georgia O’Keeffe, Diego Rivera, and Charles White; and contemporary works by Robert Colescott, Vija Celmins, Roy Lichtenstein, Judy Pfaff, and Kara Walker.

 

Brandon K. Ruud is the Constance and Dudley J. Godfrey Jr. Curator of American Art and Decorative Arts at the Milwaukee Art Museum and the former curator of transnational American art at the Sheldon Museum of Art. He is the editor of Karl Bodmer’s North American Prints (Nebraska, 2004), a New York Times notable book. More recently he edited Encounters: Photography from the Sheldon Museum of Art (Nebraska, 2013) and coedited (with Gregory Nosan) Painting from the Sheldon Museum of Art (Nebraska, 2014). Gregory Nosan is the editorial director at the Art Institute of Chicago and the former director of education and publications at the Sheldon Museum of Art. He edited exhibition catalogs such as Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 and John Marin’s Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism and contributed to Encounters: Photography from the Sheldon Museum of Art (Nebraska, 2013).
Wally Mason is the director of the Sheldon Museum of Art and former director and chief curator of the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University. He has curated over fifty exhibitions, most recently Alfred Leslie: The Killing Cycle. . . and Dark Blue: Water as Protagonist. Jorge Daniel Veneciano is the executive director of El Museo del Barrio and former director of the Sheldon Museum of Art. He is the series editor of American Transnationalism: Perspectives from the Sheldon Museum of Art, the coeditor of Fabulous Harlequin: ORLAN and the Patchwork Self (Nebraska, 2010), and the editor of The Geometric Unconscious: A Century of Abstraction (Nebraska, 2012).