Exhibit at Sandoz Center to feature landscapes

“Journals of the Days: Jacobshagen Notebooks Tour Nebraska’s Arboreta,” is drawn from the field-study sketch books of landscape painter Jacobshagen and is organized by the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum. Smith, who is CSC’s instructional design coordinator, also paints landscapes.

“Our goal with this exhibit is to draw a correlation between the beautiful landscapes of the arboretums hosting this exhibit and the works of art included in the exhibit. The Chadron State College Arboretum is one of Nebraska’s finest college arboretums,” said Jim Locklear, Nebraska Statewide Arboretum director.

Jacobshagen and Smith, long-time friends who met at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, will speak at the Sandoz Center on Friday, March 28, as part of the Mari Sandoz Heritage Society’s annual conference. Their presentation is underwritten by The Esther & Raleigh Pilster Fund.

The exhibit includes 20 reproduced images from Jacobshagen's journals including drawings, paintings and journal entries, plus an original notebook and painting. It also includes paintings and studies by Smith.

Jacobshagen was born in Wichita, Kan. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the Kansas City Art Institute and a master’s degree from the University of Kansas. He has been a professor at UNL since 1968. His work has been included in solo and group exhibitions throughout the country, and is represented in numerous public and private collections, including the Joslyn Art Museum at Omaha; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art at Kansas City and the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at Lincoln.

Smith said that growing up on Cape Cod gave him a sense of the vastness of the landscape.

“My father painted it and my mother photographed it,” he said. “Both taught me the medium they used for image making.”

Smith’s formal art education at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, and Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Mass., began in 1971 with influences from the burgeoning New Realism movement in American Art.

The Sandoz Center is open free of charge 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. week days and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each Saturday. It is closed from noon to 1 p.m. each day.

 

On the Web:

arboretum.unl.edu/jacobshagen/

 

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