Gallery Talk with Gallery 1516 founder Patrick Drickey

Name: Gallery Talk with Gallery 1516 founder Patrick Drickey
Start: 2025-10-16T17:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-16T19:30:00-05:00
Location: 225 Commercial St., Waterloo, IA, United States, Iowa 50701

Schedule

Thu Oct 16 2025 at 05:30 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

225 Commercial St., Waterloo, IA, United States, Iowa 50701 | Waterloo, IA

Milton Wolsky: A Mid-Century Nebraska Artist
September 30, 2025 – March 15, 2026
Gallery Talk with Gallery 1516 founder Patrick Drickey: Thursday, October 16, 5:30-7:30 pm. Free Admission.
Sponsored by Friends of the Art Center.
Milton Wolsky (1916-1981) was a prolific artist from Omaha, Nebraska who worked in areas ranging from illustration to Abstract Expressionist painting. During World War II, Wolsky served as a war artist with the 8th Army Engineers. His watercolors captured the activities of the Engineer Corps and the devastation of the war-torn Tokyo-Yokohama area of Japan. Following WWII, Wolsky’s career blossomed in New York City where he worked as a Modern artist and became a highly regarded illustrator for national publications such as Good Housekeeping, Collier’s, McCall’s, TIME, Life, and Redbook.
His work often reflects the artists he admired, including Hans Hofmann, Cezanne, Picasso, Duchamp, and Matisse. In his lifetime, he won numerous awards and honors, including having his paintings displayed in the US Embassies in Türkiye, Cameroon, and Rwanda. A career-spanning collection of his artwork is housed at Gallery 1516, a non-profit arts organization in Omaha, and is on loan to the Center as part of the gallery’s traveling exhibition outreach program.