<div><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=314&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fstjoepost%2Fvideos%2F544839703593528%2F&show_text=false&width=560&t=0" width="560" height="314" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowFullScreen="true"></iframe></div>Video By WHITNEE ICEBy BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostA special art exhibit, depicting a rural life now long behind
us, remains on display at the Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art through the end of
next week.Albrecht Kemper is hosting the first public exhibition of “Agrarian
Spirit in the Homestead Era,” 60 art pieces depicting life from the 1850s to
the 1940s, collected by Mark and Carol Moseman of David City, Nebraska.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/5/1622216034770.jpeg" alt="Photo by Whitnee Ice" />
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 </figure>Mark Moseman says the couple collected the paintings,
drawings, and sculptures throughout the couple’s married life, getting serious
about it around 10 years ago.“So there were all these agrarian artists,” Moseman tells St.
Joseph Post. “No one had put all these agrarian artists together in one exhibit
or one collection before and no one had done it over this 85-year period.”<figure>
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 </figure>The art depicts life in rural America just prior to the Civil
War to just after the end of World War II.The collection features major European and North American
artists, including Jean-Francois Millet, Diego Rivera, John Steuart Curry,
Winslow Homer, and Harvey Dunn.The art depicts the Homestead Era which drew many Europeans to
the Midwest in search of the American dream.“And they built farms and they built communities, and they
built families and then something happened to them and that should not be
forgotten,” Moseman says. “That culture is in us now. That’s part of who we
are. That’s what we need to remember.”<figure>
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 </figure>Time is running out to see the exhibition.“Agrarian Spirit in the Homestead Era: Artwork from the
Moseman Collection of Agrarian Art” ends June 6th. &nbsp;Afterward, it moves to the Great Plains Art
Museum at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.<figure>
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Art exhibit at Albrecht Kemper depicts long gone rural American life