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Collections

The Nevada Museum of Art permanent collection is divided into four thematic focus areas: Altered Landscape Photography, Art of the Greater West, Contemporary Art, and the Work Ethic. The Center for Art + Environment Archive Collections and Library serve scholars and researchers seeking information related to creative interactions between people and their natural, built, and virtual environments.

These thematic, rather than historical or stylistic, specializations are a natural outgrowth of the institution’s collecting practices over the years. The Center for Art + Environment houses more than 200 archives comprised of one million-plus items in its Archive Collections and over 10,500 books in its Research Library.

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Collection Themes

The Altered Landscape, Carol Franc Buck Collection

Altered Landscape

The Altered Landscape Photography Collection is the Museum’s largest focus collection and features more than 1,000 contemporary landscape photographs. Since its establishment in the early 1990s, the collection has included images that address and engage issues related to land use and the changing landscape. While the collection represents a diversity of artists,

Robert S. and Dorothy J. Keyser Art of the Greater West Collection

Art of the Greater West

A collection category dedicated to broadening the conventional definitions of the West by expanding the scope of the collection’s geographic emphasis to encompass a region generally bounded from Alaska to Patagonia and from Australia to the United States Intermountain West.

Contemporary Art

Contemporary Art

The Museum’s rapidly expanding Contemporary Collection features work by regional, national, and international artists unified by a broad thematic focus on creative interactions with natural, built, and virtual environments.

E. L. Wiegand Work Ethic in American Art Collection

Work Ethic

The collection includes paintings that depict laborers, work environments, and workers at rest.

Archive Collections and Research Library

Archives and Library

Among the Center’s archive collections are documents, sketches, and models related to artworks by Kim Abeles, Lita Albuquerque, Amy Franceschini, Fritz Haeg, Walter De Maria, Helen and Newton Harrison, Michael Heizer, and Ugo Rondinone. Significant holdings from organizations and individuals include Burning Man, the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Cape