Maximillian-Bodmer exhibit

Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Gazette

Russ Erpelding hangs hand-colored engravings by Swiss artist Karl Bodmer now on display at the Museum of the High Plains in downtown McCook. Portraits, watercolors and drawings by Bodmer chronicle travels into the interior of North America from 1832 through 1834 during which he and German naturalist Prince Maximilian of Wied documented the landscape, plants, animals and native people of the Upper Missouri River region. Among the collection is "Mouth of Fox River, near New Harmony, Indiana." The exhibit is organized by the Joslyn Art Museum of Omaha, and is drawn entirely from its Maximilian-Bodmer Collection. Erpelding, who works for the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney, was contracted through Joslyn to install the prints in the McCook museum. The exhibit will hang in the McCook museum through Sunday April 6, and is sponsored in McCook by the McCook Arts Council. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m.; admission is free of charge.

Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Gazette
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