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Graphic Art for the Decorative Arts

Stephen Goddard, curator

Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas

The exhibition endeavors to outline a rich and varied vocabulary through works of art on paper over the past 500 years. Nearly fifty prints, drawings, photographs, and books, drawn primarily from the museum's permanent collection are included.

Works of art

Johann Theodor de Bry (1561–1623), Knife-Handle Design with a Couple United in Marriage by Christ

Karl Kröner (1887–1972), Waldflechte (Forest Lichens)

Thomas Jeckyll (1827–1881), design for a bracket panel for a Japanese pavillion

Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932), Aspidium Filix Mas. Wurmfarn

Henry van de Velde (1863–1957), Tropon - Eiweiss Nahrung (Tropon, Nourishment from Eggwhite)

Andrea Mantegna (circa 1431–1506), The Battle of the Sea Gods

Giorgio Ghisi (1520–1582); Giovanni Battista Bertani (1516–1576), Hercules Victorious Over the Hydra

Hieronymus Cock (circa 1510–1570); Jan and/or Lucas van Doetecum (active 1554–1580); Cornelis Floris II (1513 or 1514–1575), Surface Decoration, Grotesque with Strapwork

Kenyon Cox (1856–1919), nude study of Rectitude

Jacques Callot (1592–1635); Sébastien Le Clerc the elder (1637–1714), Les Mourants sur le Bord des Routes (The Deaths on the Edge of the Road)

Jean Bérain (1640–1711), untitled

Jean Bérain (1640–1711), untitled

Gabriel Huquier le Pere (1695–1772), sketch for a wall fountain

Jacob de Wit (1695–1754), Putti and Clock

William Leighton Leitch (1804–1883), Plinth and Portal

John Nash (1752–1835), Details of the Cradle & Bedchamber of the King of Rome

Thomas Henry Wyatt (1807–1880), Church of Saint Katharine, Savernade Forest, Wiltshire

Ernst Joachim Förster (1800–1885), Dürer at his Mother's Deathbed

Heaton, Butler & Bayne, New York & London (active late 1800s), The Resurrection

John La Farge (1835–1910), Hope

John La Farge (1835–1910), Armorial Composition

John La Farge (1835–1910), Virgil

Léon Bakst (1866–1924), Costume Design for Gypsy Woman Carrying Basket of Fruit

Illuminated manuscript leaf with St. James miniature and acanthus border

Francesco Francia (circa 1450–1517), coat of arms

Sebald Beham (1500–1550), May and June

Stefano Della Bella (1610–1664), Cartouche with Apollo and Pan

Jacques Vauquer (1621–1686), untitled

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot (1727–1801), vase design

Iantha Howard, untitled

Frederick Henry Evans (1853–1943), Spine of Echinus X

Frederick Henry Evans (1853–1943), Château Pierrefonds, Gargoyle Waterpipe

Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932), Trollius Ledeboura, Troll-Dotter blume

Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897–1966), Autauyea Srabrola

Benigno Bossi (1727–1792); Ennemond Alexandre Petitot (1727–1801), Suite des Vases tirée du cabinet de Monsieur du Tillot Marquis de Felino (Suite of Vases from the collection of the Monsieur du Tillot, Marquis of Felino)

Francesco Francia (circa 1450–1517), female saint

Francesco Francia (circa 1450–1517), Saint George

Francesco Francia (circa 1450–1517), Saint Catherine

Francesco Francia (circa 1450–1517), Saint Francis