Work Ethic

The Work Ethic Collection was founded with a generous gift to support acquisitions around the theme of the work ethic in American art. The collection includes paintings that depict laborers, work environments, and workers at rest. Highlights of this collection include works by Carl Oscar Borg, Lorser Feitelson, Lovell Birge Harrison, Helen Lundeberg, Guy Pene du Bois, Elsie Palmer Payne, Jacob Getlar Smith, and Moses Soyer.

Clockwise from top:

Elsie Palmer Payne,Sheep Dipping Time, circa 1930s. Oil on canvas, 25 x 30 inches. Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the E.L. Wiegand Foundation.

Hugo Robus,Steam Shovel, 1920. Oil on canvas, 29 3/4 x 29 3/4 inches. Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the E.L. Wiegand Foundation.

Jacob Getlar Smith,The Wood Pile, 1937. Oil on canvas, 34 x 44 inches. Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the E.L. Wiegand Foundation.

Lovell Birge Harrison,The Loggers, 1892. Oil on canvas, 22 1/4 x 31 1/4 inches. Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the E.L. Wiegand Foundation.

Louis Aston Knight,Skyscrapers, 1930. Oil on canvas, 31 1/4 x 25 inches. Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the E.L. Wiegand Foundation.