In honor of the 50th birthday of the Sheldon Museum of Art's Philip Johnson-designed building and the 125th anniversary of the Sheldon Art Association and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln art collection, this title showcases the Sheldon's impressive collection, featuring reproductions of 125 major works along with entries by a team of scholars.

Brandon K. Ruud is the curator of transnational American art at the Sheldon Museum of Art. He is the editor of Karl Bodmer’s North American Prints (Nebraska, 2004), which was named a New York Times notable book. More recently, he contributed to the catalogs American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago and Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago and edited Encounters: Photography from the Sheldon Museum of Art (Nebraska, 2013).

Gregory Nosan is director of education and publications at the Sheldon Museum of Art. Nosan served as associate director of publications at the Art Institute of Chicago. In that capacity he managed the journal Museum Studies and edited major exhibition catalogs including Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 and John Marin’s Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism.

Jorge Daniel Veneciano is the director of the Sheldon Museum of Art. He is the series editor of¿ American Transnationalism: Perspectives from the Sheldon Museum of Art, the coeditor of Fabulous Harlequin: ORLAN and the Patchwork Self (Nebraska, 2010), and the editor of The Geometric Unconscious: A Century of Abstraction (Nebraska, 2012).