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Exhibitions and Collections
In the following sections you will find links to web and print resources that pertain to the traveling exhibitions and permanent collections cared for by the Nevada Museum of Art. Please browse around, and if you find interesting sites that should be included, post them in a comment or email me.
The Altered Landscape
The Altered Landscape is the NMA's largest and newest focus collection and features nearly 600 pieces of contemporary landscape photographs. The collection traces the 1970s New Topographics tradition through its derivations over the past four decades. Much of The Altered Landscape imagery focuses on topography of the new West, including nuclear and military landscapes, mining sites, housing developments, dams, and desert trails. Over 50 artists are represented in the collection including large bodies of work by Robert Adams, Mark Klett, John Pfahl, Frank Gohlke, Peter Goin, Richard Misrach, Patrick Nagatani, Terry Evans, Sharon Stewart, Wanda Hammerbeck, and Robert Dawson. In 1998, a $400,000 endowment for future Altered Landscape acquisitions was established through the generosity of the Carol Franc Buck Foundation.
The Altered Landscape
- Brigham Young University Museum of Art :: Photography and Perception: Exploring the Western Landscape
- Edward Burtynsky :: Artist Page
- Edward Burtynsky :: Shipbreaking @ Cowles Gallery
- Flight Patterns :: An Essay on the New Topographics and its Influences
- Patrick Nagatani :: Andrew Smith Gallery
- Patrick Nagatani :: Museum of New Mexico | Museum of Fine Arts
- Patrick Nagatani :: U of A Center for Creative Photography
- Richard Misrach :: Artcyclopedia
- Richard Misrach :: Environmental Photography Essay
- Richard Misrach :: Museum of Contemporary Photography
- Robert Adams :: @ SFMoMA
- Robert Adams :: @ Yale University Art Gallery
- Robert Adams :: Artcyclopedia
- Robert Adams :: Museum of Contemporary Photography
- Robert Dawson :: Artist Site
- Robert Dawson :: ECO, SFSU Fine Arts Gallery
The E.L. Wiegand Collection
The E. L. Wiegand Collection was founded with an endowment to support acquisitions around the theme of the work ethic in American art. The collection includes paintings by Charles Burchfield, Rutherford Boyd, Hugo Robus, Frank Van Sloun, and Lovell Birge Harrison as well as prints by Grant Wood and several bronze sculptures.
The E.L. Wiegand Collection
Sierra Nevada | Great Basin Collection
From images created by travelers and explorers to Romantic landscapes and scenes depicting the American West, the Sierra Nevada/Great Basin Collection surveys the art of our region, allowing NMA's audience the opportunity to explore their visual heritage. With this collection, the museum documents how artists have interpreted the landscape over the past 150 years through the works of Timothy O'Sullivan, John Henry Hill, Maynard Dixon, Carleton E. Watkins, and Edward Weston.
Sierra Nevada | Great Basin Collection
- Chuck Forsman :: Normal Editions Workshop
- Chuck Forsman :: North Point Gallery
- Chuck Forsman :: Yellowstone Art Museum
- Edwin Deakin :: Sullivan Goss Gallery
- Edwin Deakin :: The California Missions in Art Pt I
- Edwin Deakin :: The California Missions in Art Pt II
- Edwin Deakin :: The Channel Islands
- Edwin Deakin :: The San Francisco Art Boom, 1860s-1880s
- Edwin Deakin :: The Smithsonian
- Edwin Deakin :: The Studio Building, Berkeley, CA
- Edwin Deakin :: Utah Artists Project
- Hugo Fisher :: Austin Galleries
- Hugo Fisher :: Oxford Gallery
- Hugo Fisher :: San Francisco County Biographies
- Maynard Dixon :: Medicine Man Gallery
- Maynard Dixon :: The Foundation
- Maynard Dixon :: The Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts
- Maynard Dixon :: Traditional Fine Arts Organization
The Contemporary Collection
The Contemporary Collection is international in scope with a major focus on West Coast and Nevada based artists. The emphasis is on environmental art, Pop Art, assemblage, and installation art, represented with works by Michael Heizer, Michael Sarich, Dennis Oppenheim, Wayne Thiebaud, and Celeste Roberge.
The Historical Collection
The Historical Collection is a broad collection of American art including paintings, works on paper and sculpture. Founded through a major bequest in 1949, the core of the collection dates from 1900 to 1945, with works by Stuart Davis, Maynard Dixon, and Charlie Dye, as well as regional artists including Lorenzo Latimer, Robert Caples and Craig Sheppard. A 1998 gift from Wells Fargo of 49 prints and paintings expanded the collection's post-1945 work to include pieces by Roy Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Motherwell, Sam Francis, Robert Rauschenberg, and Christo.
Past Feature & Spotlight Exhibition Information
- Amsterdam Exhibit Shows Digital Images of Every Rembrandt Work
- David Maisel :: Archinect
- David Maisel :: BLDGBLOG Interview
- David Maisel :: California College of the Arts
- David Maisel :: Grist
- David Maisel :: International Center of Photography Ecotopia
- David Maisel :: Lake Project Site
- David Maisel :: lens culture
- David Maisel :: Miller Block Gallery
- David Maisel :: Orion Magazine "Making Other Arrangements"
- David Maisel :: Orion Magazine "Sanctuary and the Modern Metropolis"
- David Maisel :: Paul Kopeikin Gallery
- David Maisel :: Photo Arts Santa Fe
- David Maisel :: seesaw interview
- David Maisel :: Speak, See, Remember
- David Maisel :: The Green Museum
- David Maisel :: Von Lintel Gallery
- Deborah Butterfield : Horses :: The Norton Museum
- Deborah Butterfield :: Gallery Paule Anglim
- Deborah Butterfield :: Greg Kucera Gallery
- Deborah Butterfield :: Interview on Art!Space
- Deborah Butterfield :: New York Times Review
- Long May She Wave :: USA Flag Site
- Salt Dreams :: An Explanation of Platinum Palladium Photography
- Salt Dreams :: Platinotype Photography
- Salt Dreams :: The Mojave Desert on Wikipedia
- Salt Dreams :: The Salton Sea @ SDSU Pt I
- Salt Dreams :: The Salton Sea @ SDSU Pt II
- Salt Dreams :: The Salton Sea @ the State of California
- Salt Dreams :: The Salton Sea @ the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
- Salt Dreams :: The Salton Sea @ U C Davis
- Salt Dreams :: The Salton Sea Authority
- Salt Dreams :: The Salton Sea on Wikipedia
- Yosemite :: A History of Photography to the 1920s
- Yosemite :: Autry National Center Museum of the American West Yosemite Site
- Yosemite :: Autry National Center Yosemite Texts
- Yosemite :: Calishpere at U C Berkeley
- Yosemite :: Closer to Nature Fact Sheet
- Yosemite :: Firefalls
- Yosemite :: Holt-Atherton Special Collections at University of the Pacific
- Yosemite :: Lafayette Bunnell's Journal of 1851 Mariposa Battalion
- Yosemite :: National Geographic Lesson Plans
- Yosemite :: Photography :: Charles Leander Weed @ Luminous Lint
- Yosemite :: Photography :: Charles Weed @ Union List of Artist Names
- Yosemite :: Photography :: Collodion Process Description
- Yosemite :: Photography :: Photo-Secession
- Yosemite :: Photography :: Photographic Process Descriptions @ Victoria & Albert Museum
- Yosemite :: Photography :: SI "Land Through a Lens"
- Yosemite :: Photography :: The Golden Age of Photography @ Andrew Smith Gallery
- Yosemite :: Photography :: William Dassonville
- Yosemite :: St. Mary's College of California William Keith Collection
- Yosemite :: The Geologic Story of Yosemite Valley
- Yosemite :: Thomas Ayres Article from 1856
- Yosemite :: Thomas Hill @ Sullivan Goss Gallery
- Yosemite Library :: Frederick Law Olmstead
Good Things to Read :: Past Feature + Spotlight Exhibitions
- Miller, Russell. "Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History." New York, NY.: Grove Press, 1998.
- Morath, Inge and Arthur Miller. "Chinese Encounters." New York, NY.: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979.
- Morath, Inge and Arthur Miller. "In the Country." New York, NY.: Viking Press, 1977.
- Morath, Inge, and Arthur Miller, et al. "Inge Morath: Life as a Photographer." Germany: Kehayoff Verlag, 1999. ISBN-13: 978-3929078923
- Morath, Inge, Arthur Miller, and Lucy Raven. "Inge Morath: The Road to Reno." Berlin: Steidl Publishing, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-3865212030
- Steinberg, Saul. "Saul Steinberg Masquerade." New York, NY.: Viking Studio, 2000.
Good Things to Read :: The Altered Landscape Collection
- Adams, Robert. "Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values." Millertown, NY.: Aperture, 1981.
- Adams, Robert. "From the Missouri West: Photographs." Millerton, NY.: Aperture, 1980.
- Adams, Robert. "Los Angeles Spring." New York: Aperture, 1986.
- Adams, Robert. "Perfect Times, Perfect Places." New York: Aperture, 1988.
- Adams, Robert. "Summer Nights." New York: Aperture, 1985.
- Adams, Robert. "Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews." New York: Aperture, 1994.
- Misrach, Richard. "Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West." Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
- Misrach, Richard. "Desert Cantos." Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987.
- Misrach, Richard. "Golden Gate." Santa Fe, NM.: Arena Editions, 2001.
- Misrach, Richard. "Pictures of Paintings." New York: Powerhouse Books, 2002.
- Misrach, Richard. "Richard Misrach: Photographs, 1975-1987." Santa Monica, CA.: Gallery Min, 1988.
- Nagatani, Patrick, and Andrée Tracey. "Patrick Nagatani / Andrée Tracey: Polaroid 20X24 Photographs: 1983-1986." Tokyo, Japan; Santa Monica, CA : Gallery Min, 1987.
- Nagatani, Patrick, and Andrée Tracey. "Radioactive Inactives: A Photographic Collaboration Between Patrick Nagatani and Andrée Tracey: September 17-October 22, 1989, Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia." Charlottesville, VA: The Museum, 1989.
- Nagatani, Patrick, and Jasmine Alinder. "Virtual Pilgrimage: Patrick Nagatani’s Japanese American Concentration Camp Portfolio." Albuquerque: Albuquerque Museum, 1998.
- Rothman, Hal K. and Mike Davis, eds. "The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas." Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
- Wolfe, Ann M. "Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl." Santa Fe, NM.: Center for American Places, 2006.
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