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Great Plains Art Museum

Great Plains Art Museum is an art museum in Lincoln, United States.

About Great Plains Art Museum

The Great Plains Art Museum is a fine arts museum in Lincoln, Nebraska dedicated to Great Plains art. It opened in 1981 at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and is operated by the school's Center for Great Plains Studies. It was founded with the Christlieb Collection, containing sculptures, paintings, drawings, and photographs, donated by John and Elizabeth Christlieb of Bellevue, Nebraska.

The Christlieb Collection includes works by Albert Bierstadt, William Henry Jackson, Frederic Remington, Charles Marion Russell and Olaf Wieghorst. Subsequent acquisitions and donations have expanded the museum's collections to include works by Lyman Byxbe, John Philip Falter, Michael Forsberg, Veryl Goodnight, Jackson Pollock, Norman Rockwell, and Grant Wood.

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1981

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Artworks shown from Great Plains Art Museum are in the public domain; images via the open-access programs of their source collections. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.