Great Plains Invitational
Art Show and Sale
2008 Purchase Award Winner
Nebraska artist Jim Rey has been awarded the 2008 Purchase Award by the Friends of the Center for Great Plains Studies.
The award was made at the fourth annual Invitational Art Show and Sale May 1 at the Great Plains Art Museum. Rey's oil painting, "Fishing for a Catch," depicting a scene from a ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills, will be added to the permanent collection of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Great Plains Art Museum.
Jim and his wife, Sharon live on a small farm in the Nebraska panhandle north of Mitchell. He has exhibited in the Frederic Remington Museum in New York, the Leanin' Tree Museum in Colorado, and the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney. Featured articles on his work have been published in Southwest Art, Art of the West, International Artist, Western Horseman and many others.
The Purchase Award is given in recognition of the work acquired by the Great Plains Art Museum for its permanent collection. The painting was selected by a jury that included Friends of the Center for Great Plains Studies board members, staff of the Center for Great Plains Studies and Great Plains Art Museum, and outside community members.
