Omaha, NE.- The Joslyn Art Museum is pleased to present “Wendell Minor: In the American Tradition”, on view at the museum through December 31st. A lifelong fascination with America’s national heroes, traditional folkways, classic literature, and natural wonders great and small inspires the accomplished work of Wendell Minor. While countless adult readers have enjoyed Minor’s jacket designs for bestselling novels such as ‘1776’ and ‘Truman’ (David McCullough), ‘Prince of Tides’ (Pat Conroy), and ‘Terms of Endearment’ (Larry McMurtry), young readers have had the more rewarding experience of joining the artist on picture book-length visual explorations to far-flung places such as the Arctic and the Moon. His paintings for Jack London’s ‘Call of the Wild’ and Diane Siebert’s ‘Mojave’, and his own picture book adaptation of Katharine Lee Bates’ ‘America the Beautiful’, express his sense of amazement at the sweep and grandeur of our nation’s natural inheritance. Through much of his work, Minor brings to mind the urgent need to protect America’s wildlife and unspoiled places. Nowhere has he done so more eloquently than with Jean Craighead George’s ‘Everglades’, a celebration of nature’s bounty and a dramatically clear reminder of why the world’s wonders are worth saving.