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John Thein

1942-2023

Omaha, NE, USA

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  1. A Panoramic Rendering of the Journey of Discovery by John Mossman, John Thein, Image 1.

    John Mossman, John Thein

    A Panoramic Rendering of the Journey of Discovery

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John Thein was a professor of fine art at Creighton from 1975-2015. During that time, Thein has taught art in China three different times; the Dominican Republic; Leister, England; and twice for the U.S. government in Guatemala. As an artist, Thein has had 44 one-person exhibitions; participated in nine international, 22 national and 42 regional exhibitions; and illustrated six books.

Thein's artwork is held in the collections of the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, Mo.; the Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, Neb.; the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha; Shaanxi Art Museum in Xi'an, China; and the Instituto Guatemalteco Americano, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

For the 23 years before his death in 2023, John Thein worked on a series of paintings addressing the massacre at Wounded Knee, titled “Wounded Knee/the Painted Spirit.”
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