Fremont Area Art Association’s Gallery 92 West is exhibiting “Agrarian Legacy: Works from Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art”, February 8-28, 2011. Bone Creek, located in David City, Nebraska, is the National Center for preserving, viewing, and learning about exceptional agrarian art. Agrarian pertains to fields, lands, or their tenure. The museum collects art by such artists as Winslow Homer and Thomas Hart Benton. The collection features paintings by renowned David City native son, Dale Nichols (1904-1995). Loaned artwork exhibited at Gallery 92 West is by sixteen agrarian artists, such as wildlife photographer Thomas Mangelsen; regionalist painter from Shelby, Nebraska, Terence Duren; and Italian printmaker Luigi Lucioni. Depending on his or her bias, each artist adds a unique expression to the complex heritage of agrarianism. For example, Texas artist V…. Vaughan’s paintings of four seasons express changing weather in each season. Viewers can compare this to Dale Nichols’ four seasons remembering different farm work in each season. Bone Creek’s Chief Curator Mark L. Moseman says, “The exhibit is a rich fabric of different ways of looking at the same thing, the ever changing agrarian experience. Though there are strong works that stand on their own, the exhibit taken as a whole is more important than any of the separate parts”.
Two special events are scheduled in conjunction with the “Agrarian Legacy” exhibition. An opening reception will be held Friday, February 11, 2011 from 5-7pm with remarks by Mark Moseman, Curator. Amanda Mobley, Associate Curator of Bone Creek Museum will give a talk on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 7pm. More information about Bone Creek Museum can be found online at www.bonecreek.org.