His World in Prints and Drawings at the Rogers Gallery
An Omaha show of Kingman's lithographs, etchings and drawings, with workshops where visitors printed from his own copper plates.
Eugene Kingman is usually remembered for big work: the New York Times mural, the national park paintings, his years running the Joslyn Art Museum. This show looked at the smaller work he made all along.
“Eugene Kingman: His World in Prints and Drawings” opened at the Roberta & Bob Rogers Gallery, 1806 Vinton Street, on Friday, November 14, 2025. Mixie Kingman Eddy, his daughter, and Quinlan Kingman Eddy, his grandson, spoke at the opening. The show ran to January 10, 2026.
On the walls were stone lithographs, etchings and drypoints printed from copper plates, and drawings in graphite, ink and black lithography crayon. The subjects followed the places he lived and traveled: New England, Yale University, the Midwest and the West, and Mesa Verde National Park. Many of the works were for sale.
The gallery built a program around the show. On November 19, John Dechant and John Paul, Community Liaison Manager at the Joslyn Castle, gave a talk on “Eugene Kingman’s Life and Art.” In three workshops, on November 20 and 29 and December 4, small groups chose one of Kingman’s own etched copper plates, learned to ink and wipe it, ran it through the press and took an impression home. A fourth workshop, on December 6, used the press to make calligraphic monotypes.
The workshops fit a line of Kingman’s from 1970: “Art should not be isolated from everyday living experience.”
For more on the prints themselves, read The Intimate Scale of Vision. More of his work and artifacts are on view in the Kingman Room at the Joslyn Castle, and you can browse lithographs and paintings on the works page.
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