Nadine McHenry, Artist

This site is for those who want to know more about Nebraska artist, Nadine McHenry and her work.

Her subjects range from the human figure to cows to landscapes and to the totally abstract. When she paints cows or landscapes, she is very personally connected because she grew up in the open plains of northwestern Nebraska.

Her paintings hang in corporate and private collections, also at the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney and at the Center for Great Plains Studies in Lincoln.

Twelve of her paintings are permanently displayed at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital. Eight are in the prayer room at First-Plymouth Church in Lincoln NE. Four are at the University of Nebraska College of Law.

Two of her paintings were displayed at the Sorbonne in Paris, France and in Provence at an International Willa Cather seminar in 2007.A  portrait of two professors was commissioned for the New York University law college in New York City.
 
She was the recipient of the 2002 Lincoln Mayor's Arts Award for Artistic Achievement.

Statement by Norman Geske regarding her Nebraska Landscapes

"Nadine McHenry is an artist whose instinctive command of the medium is at the service of a vision that makes no distinction between representation and abstraction. The magical capacity of paint to record things seen as well as the knowledge and feelings contained therein is in these paintings demonstrated with complete success. These landscapes are indeed ours - Nebraska as we know it - but they are at the same time records of the intangibles of light and space in the interplay of land and sky, a visceral experience that is intrinsic to the function of art."

 - Norman A. Geske, Director Emeritus, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery & Sculpture Garden

A Love Of Place; oil on canvas; 36 x 48 inches This painting was commissioned to honor J.B.Milliken at his installation in January 2005 as new president of the University of Nebraska. It references the open prairies encountered by the early pioneers who came to Nebraska and built a life for the future.

Wild Land; oil on canvas; 48 x 36 inches; This painting references a quote from Willa Cather's book, O Pioneers!: "It was still a wild thing that had its ugly moods, and no one knew when they were likely to come or why."

SEPTEMBER 15-Nov 28, 2008 EXHIBITION                             Immanuel Fine Arts Gallery, 3500 Faulkner Dr, Lincoln NE     Opening Sept 19, 5:00-7:00 pm at Immanuel Fine Arts Gallery

November 1-15, 2008 exhibition

Opening Nov 1, 5:00-9:00 pm at Anderson O'Brien Fine Art

                                     Coming In; oil on canvas; 40 x 30 incheS 

A solo exhibit, entitled Cows Coming Home, is scheduled for November 1, 2008 at Anderson O'Brien Fine Art in Omaha NE.

 

DECEMBER 1-17, 2008 EXHIBITION                             Hastings College Gallery, Hastings NE

A solo exhibit, entitled Moovin' Cows, is scheduled for December 1-17 at the gallery in Hastings College.

 

 

Black Acre; oil on canvas; 60 x 60 inches, 2005

One of four paintings commissioned by the University of Nebraska College of Law:

Where to find available paintings.

In Lincoln, stop by Kiechel Fine Art,  (http://www.kiechelart.com/) 5733 S. 34th, Suite 300, Lincoln NE 68516. Tel: 402.420.9553.

In Omaha, stop by Anderson O'Brien Fine Art, (http://www.aobfineart.com/) 8724 Pacific, Omaha NE 68114. Tel: 402.390.0717