Nevada Museum of Art

Reno isn't all gambling. You can get divorced too! LOL. No really there are several cultural pursuits in town.

The Nevada Museum of Art is on the small side, but still holds a valuable collection. It also snared a wonderful exhibit of Rembrandt engravings on loan from the Boston Museum of Art.

The inside is well...artsy. I'd have enjoyed a docent-led architecture tour. But the only tour available was of the Rembrandt Exhibit. Photography in the galleries is not allowed. The view from the roof sorta makes up for the stinginess, sorta...

If
Rembrandt 
was a
great
painter,
he was
an even
better
engraver.
Probably
the world's
best.

Rembrandt: The Embrace of Dark & Light was the first and only retrospective of Rembrandt I've had the opportunity to attend. My sister spent a year abroad in Amsterdam. And we did visit the Rijks Museum...

But I hadn't fully comprehended how talented Rembrandt was. The exhibit also illuminated details of the artist's personal life. For all that talent, he ended up bankrupt!



The Nevada Museum of Art provided magnifying glasses to examine the prints' subtlety. The docent also explained the different types of etchings and engravings. All are complicated processes requiring unimaginable determination and technical expertise--let alone creativity.