LAW-REDDINGTON GALLERY
View an Exhibition or Attend a Presentation
The Mary Makepeace, Law Reddington Gallery and Theater is located between the Forsberg and Reuling Feldman Galleries. It features ongoing changing exhibitions, in addition to exhibitions that are planned to interpret and expand upon the permanent collection and focus on Midwest Art, American Crafts, and Haitian and Caribbean Art. The Theater is situated in the center of the gallery and offers an ideal space for interpretive programming and presentations.
NOW DISPLAYING
Milton Wolsky:
A Mid-Century
Nebraska Artist
September 30-March 15
Milton Wolsky (1916-1981) was a prolific artist from Omaha, Nebraska who worked in areas ranging from illustration to Abstract Expressionist painting. During World War II, Wolsky served as a war artist with the 8th Army Engineers. His watercolors captured the activities of the Engineer Corps and
the devastation of the war-torn Tokyo-Yokohama area of Japan. Following WWII, Wolsky’s career blossomed in New York City where he worked as a Modern artist and became a highly regarded illustrator for national publications such as Good Housekeeping, Collier’s, McCall’s, TIME, Life, and Redbook.
His work often reflects the artists he admired, including Hans Hofmann, Cezanne, Picasso, Duchamp, and Matisse. In his lifetime, he won numerous awards and honors, including having his paintings displayed in the US Embassies in Türkiye, Cameroon, and Rwanda. A career-spanning collection of his artwork is housed at Gallery 1516, a non-profit arts organization in Omaha, and is on loan to the Waterloo Center for the Arts as part of the gallery’s traveling exhibition outreach program.
THURS.
October 16
5:30-7:30pm
GALLERY TALK WITH GALLERY 1516 FOUNDER PATRICK DRICKEY
Free Admission
Milton Wolsky (1916-1981) was a prolific artist from Omaha, NE who worked in areas ranging from illustration to abstract expressionist painting. Wolsky’s career blossomed in New York City in the 1940s where he worked as a modern artist and illustrator for national publications such as Good Housekeeping, Collier’s, McCall’s, TIME, Life, and Redbook. A career-spanning collection of his artwork is housed at Gallery 1516, a non-profit arts organization in Omaha, and is on loan to the Center as part
of the gallery’s traveling exhibition outreach program.