Alumni Gifts to the University of Kansas Museum of Art

Exhibition

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Alumni Gifts to the University of Kansas Museum of Art
University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas

In 1928, Mrs. William Bridges Thayer gave her splendid collection to the University of Kansas, a gift which marked the beginning of the Museum of Art. Although Mrs. Thayer was not an alumna of the university, her generous gift established a precedent for private benefaction by which the collection has grown and developed for nearly half a century. Today the University of Kansas Museum of Art enjoys a pre-eminent position among American university collections, which would not have been possible without the continuing support and generosity of alumni and friends.

Although acknowledgement of alumni participation in the growth of this collection has often been made, this exhibition provides the first opportunity to review and evaluate the alumni's vital role and truly remarkable contributions. It is especially fitting that such an exhibition should be held during the Commencement season, when alumni contacts with their university are renewed. This show, which for reasons of space can include but a fraction of the total alumni gifts, demonstrates the diversity and richness of the collection. Included in the show are many of the museum's masterpieces which will be familiar to most visitors; also represented are other artworks which for reasons of space and fragility cannot be displayed permanently but which contribute greatly to the excellence of the collection.

Works of art

Carlo Innocenzo Carlone
1700s
George Catlin
circa 1841
George Loring Brown
1855
Martin Johnson Heade
1875–1880
Henry François Farny
1891
Henry Golden Dearth
late 1800s–early 1900s
Andrew Michael Dasburg
1928
Streeter Blair
1954
Norman Rockwell
circa 1950
Ward Lockwood
1934
Peter Hurd
mid 1900s
John Philip Falter
1951
Theodoros Stamos
1943
Robert Cottingham
1972
circa 300 BCE, Ptolemaic Kingdom, 332 BCE–30 CE
circa 1375
Roman School
1400s
circa 1480–1490
Mattias Wallbaum
late 1500s
Mattias Wallbaum
late 1500s
Mattias Wallbaum
late 1500s
Adriaen de Vries
circa 1610
Antonio Francesco Selvi
1749
Antonio Francesco Selvi
1749
circa 1700
Gaspard Marsy, Anselme Flamen
1700s
late 1800s
Ambrogio Colombo
circa 1885
Georg Kolbe
1920
John Bernard Flannagan
1928
Frederick John Eversley
1970
Sui dynasty (581–618)
Sui dynasty (581–618)
800s, Tang dynasty (618 CE–907 CE)
Francesco Grigiotti
1631
Christian Friedrich Zincke
mid 1700s
Louis Nicolas van Blarenberghe
mid-late 1700s
Jeremias Majer
circa 1760
Frédéric Bourgeois de Mercey
1827
Samuel Worcester Rowse
1870
Edouard Vuillard
1900–1910
Wayne Thiebaud
1966
Tal Streeter
1970
Yokoi Kinkoku
late 1700s–early 1800s, Edo period (1600–1868)
1800s, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Stefano Della Bella
1647
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
1753
Francisco de Goya
1810–1815
Seymour Haden
1870
Paul Cézanne
1873
Mary Cassatt
circa 1896–1897
James Ensor
1888
Edward Weston
1937
George Grosz
1915
Joán Miró
1947
Sam Francis
1964
Claes Oldenburg, Gemini G.E.L.
1969
Tom Wesselmann
1967
Leland Payton
1970
Utagawa Hiroshige
1855–1857, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
circa 1847–1852, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
circa 1840, Edo period (1600–1868)
Yoshu Nobuyasu
1895, Meiji period (1868–1912)
circa 1800s
Joseph Austen
circa 1800
Enos and Osman Sellew, William Sellew
1832–1860
Henry Chawner
1791–1792
Henry Chawner
1791–1792
Meissen Porcelain Factory
1800s
Durand Art Glass
1924–1931
Kangxi period (1662–1722), Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
rug
1800s?
Christina Hays Malcom
circa 1840–1884
Rose Frances Good Kretsinger
1928
Kangxi period (1662–1722), Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Kangxi period (1662–1722), Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Kangxi period (1662–1722), Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

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