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A Decade of Collecting 1970-1980: The Letha Churchill Walker Collection

Elizabeth Broun, curator

May 16, 1980–July 30, 1980

Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

European and American prints and drawings, which range from John Singleton Copley's 1764 Portrait of Mrs. Moses Gill to David Hockney's exotic 1963 etching Jungle Boy, have all been purchased since 1970 with Letha Churchill Walker funds.

Works of art

Portrait of a Lady

Jean Alaux (1786–1864), Zephyr and Psyche

Emile Bernard (1868–1941), La Lessive (The Laundry)

Muirhead Bone (1876–1953), Joseph Conrad Listening to Music

Thomas Shotter Boys (1803–1874), Notre Dame, Paris, from the Quai St. Bernard

Dennis Miller Bunker (1861–1890), drawing for cover of sheet music

Tommaso Minardi (1787–1871), Studio Scene with Artists and Corpse

James Wells Champney (1843–1903), Boy Fishing

Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), The Barefooted Child

John Singleton Copley (1738–1815), Portrait of Mrs. Moses Gill (Sarah Prince)

Robert Cottingham (born 1935); Landfall Press (active 1970–2004), F.W.

Arthur Bowen Davies (1862–1928), Italian Landscape

Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), Un Forgeron (The Blacksmith)

Arthur Wesley Dow (1857–1922), Modern Art

Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904), Evocation de Kundry

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

Robert Swain Gifford (1840–1905), Temple of Kom O'mba, Egypt

Francesco Grigiotti (active 1604–1635), Adam and the Beasts in the Garden

Marsden Hartley (1877–1943), Pears and Lemons

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

David Hockney (born 1937); Associated American Artists (active 1934–2000), Jungle Boy

Daniel Huntington (1816–1906), Study of a Male Torso

Charles Cromwell Ingham (1796–1863), Ideal Head (neoclassic head)

Johannes Itten (1888–1967), Composition

John Baptist Jackson (circa 1701–circa 1780); Paolo Veronese (1528–1588), The Presentation in the Temple (Circumcision)

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

Alexis Victor Joly (1798–1874), Mountain Landscape

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

William Morris (1834–1896); Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898), Lucretia

Stuart Nielsen (born 1947), Folding Screen Drawing

Emil Nolde (1867–1956), Familie

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986), Pink and Green Mountains, No. 1

Julius Schnorr von Carlsfeld (1794–1872), Head of a Woman

Maurice Sterne (1878–1957), Bali Woman

Joseph Thürmer (1789–1833), Lion Gate, Mycenae

Peter Lely (1618–1680); Thomas Watson (1748–1781), Frances, Lady Whitmore

Peter Lely (1618–1680); Thomas Watson (1748–1781), Elizabeth, Countess of Northumberland

Johann Georg Wille (1715–1808); Louis Tocqué (1696–1772), Frontspiece: Portrait of Tycho Hofman

Pierre Alexandre Wille (1748–1837), Portrait of an Old Woman

Mahonri Mackintosh Young (1877–1957), Workman with Hammer

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