A portrait by Elisabetta Sirani for the Joslyn Art Museum

4/10/24 – Acquisition – Omaha, The Joslyn Art Museum – After two years of expansion and renovation work, the Joslyn Art Museum, located in Omaha, Nebraska, reopened at the beginning of September, revealing a new building and a completely redesigned collection trail. The latter is now spread over three buildings, the Rhonda & Howard Hawks Pavilion, entrusted to the architectural firm Snøhetta in collaboration with Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture, offering an additional 3900 m2 to the original Art Deco building from 1931 and its 1994 extension, the Suzanne and Walter Scott Pavilion designed by Norman Foster.

1. Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665)

Portrait of Mrs. Ortensia Leoni Cordini in Saint Dorothée1661

Oil on canvas – 59.1 × 49.8 cm

Omaha, The Joslyn Art Museum

Photo : Joslyn Art Museum/Bill Ganzel

See the image on his page

We will not return to the integration of Native American works into the previously separate collections of American art from the 19th and 20th centuries nor to the presentation of the recent donation from the Phillip G. Schrager collection to which a floor was dedicated, the fifty- two paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs which constitute it relating to American art of the second half of the 20th century and the 21st century largely off-camera for The Art Tribune. On the other hand, we will be interested in recent acquisitions which have integrated this new itinerary which has also been greatly enriched with works previously kept in reserves. We will start with the portrait of Elisabetta Sirani (ill. 1) acquired, thanks to the Ethel S. Abbott Art Endowment Fund, from the New York gallery Robert Simon Fine Art which dedicated an exhibition to the Bolognese painter, designer and engraver in September 2023. A flagship enrichment, it joins the collections European collections of the museum which were also recently expanded with a painting by another female artist from the 17th century, a still life from…

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