Conversation XIX: Phases: Multinational Works, 1900 to Now

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

Conversation XIX: Phases: Multinational Works, 1900 to Now
Conversation XIX: Phases: Multinational Works, 1900 to Now
Susan Earle, curator
Gallery 405, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

In this exhibition, the Conversation alcoves showcase 37 examples of the Spencer’s collection of 20th- and 21st-century painting and sculpture. The works in Conversation XIX: Phases take the viewer through a century of artistic innovation and adaptation to a swiftly-changing world. Included in the group from the first half of the 20th century are a rare reverse-glass painting by Gabrielle Münter made circa 1910, a Cubist oil painting by Jeanne Rij-Rousseau, and Norman Rockwell’s original Facts of Life illustration, created for the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1951. The alcove with more recent works features Chris Pappan’s politically-charged painting Displaced Peoples 2, Richard Mawdsley’s sumptuous sterling silver Alpha-Omega: Water Tower #5, three paintings from the Vogel Collection, and Kay WalkingStick’s Winter Flight.

Exhibition images

Works of art

Joyce Wahl Treiman
1985
Anna Katarina Boberg
circa 1910
Norman Rockwell
circa 1950
Theodoros Stamos
circa 1950
FUN
Robert Indiana
1961
Karl W. Stuecklen
1968
Robert Remsen Vickrey
mid-late 1900s
Gary Pruner
1973
Harold Weston
1931
Red Grooms
1964
Victor Vasarely
1967
Rockwell Kent
1914–1917
Walter Stuempfig
mid 1900s
Ruth Harris Bohan
after 1931
Nellie Augusta Knopf
circa 1930s
Francisco Amighetti
circa 1952
Pierre Daura
1960–1965
Kay WalkingStick
1988–1989
Rafael Coronel
1965
Chizuko Yoshida
1951
Gene B. Davis
1970
Edward Renouf
1960–1970
Jeanne Rij-Rousseau
1915
Dalton Howard
1989
Chris Pappan
2011
Richard Mawdsley
1995–1999
Gabriele Münter
circa 1910
Gertrude Goldsmith
circa 1925