Joslyn Art Museum officials believe their partnership with the new Madden Museum of Art in Greenwood Village, including regular loans of some of Joslyn’s best-known works, will be mutually beneficial.
Besides giving the Omaha institution a chance to showcase some of its holdings in an adjoining state and collaborate with a collector with old ties to its city, the museum hopes to get some art it can show in return.
“I think there will be some future reciprocity,” said Joslyn director Brooks Joyner. “Mr. Madden has a collection, and I suspect that we’ll ask for a loan of some of his material down the road.”
Joslyn officials first met John Madden a year ago because of his involvement in public art and their discovery of his ties to Omaha. The developer grew up in the city and volunteered at the museum, where his mother was once a secretary to the director.
Joyner acknowledged that the Joslyn typically only loans its works to established museums, not a small, changing-exhibition space like the Madden Museum.
“It’s different for us,” he said, “but we’re looking at thinking out of the box on occasions.”
Kyle MacMillan
