This Land
Exhibition
Exhibition Overview
This Land
Kate Meyer, curator
Gallery 407, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
This Land and Forms of Thought are two exhibitions that together explore intangible ideas. Works in This Land address nationhood, manifest destiny, westward expansion, and others related to our lives on Earth.
Exhibition images
Works of art
Winslow Homer
Cloud Shadows,
1890
John Noble
Morning in the Flint Hills,
circa 1927
United States Pottery Company
pitcher,
1853–1858
The Van Briggle Art Pottery
vase,
1919
Anna Frances Simpson; Joseph Fortune Meyer; Newcomb Pottery
vase,
1918
Rookwood Pottery; Amelia Browne Sprague
vase,
1900
Marie Levering Benson
vase,
circa 1910
Marjorie Faye Whitney
covered jar with lid,
1939
Thomas Hart Benton
Kansas Wheat Scene,
1953
Raymond Eastwood
Henry Dexter
Bust of Amos Adams Lawrence,
circa 1871–1876
Julian Martinez; Maria Martinez
blackware olla (vase),
1934–1943
James Hess
Thomas Hart Benton
Hoerman Brothers Manufacturing Company
Eagle,
late 1800s–1905
Stephen Lee
sideboard,
late 1700s–early 1800s
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg
Joseph Badger
Portrait of the Rev. Ellis Gray,
circa 1758
Joseph Badger
pitcher,
1804–1830
Joseph Badger
Uncle Tom and Eva figure,
1852–1860s
James & Ralph Clews
soup plate,
1819–1834
Campbell, Jones & Company
bread plate,
1877
Boston & Sandwich Glass Company
cup plate,
1839–1841
Boston & Sandwich Glass Company
paperweight,
circa 1860–1900
Frederic Remington; Roman Bronze Works
The Bronco Buster,
1895, cast 1906
John Steuart Curry
The Code of the West,
1923
Andrew Michael Dasburg
Taos Valley,
1928
Ward Lockwood
Eanger Irving Couse
Diego Romero
When Titans Collide,
1999
unrecorded Diné (Navajo) artist
silver dollar necklace with naja pendant,
1945–1980
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Albert Bierstadt
Sunset on the Plains,
circa 1887
Albert Bierstadt
A Western Landscape,
late 1860s or 1870s
Robert Swain Gifford
A Kansas Ranch,
1888
Thomas Hart Benton; Elden C. Tefft
Indian and Explorer,
1960
John Singleton Copley
Joe Coleman
Henry Learned
Near Eudora, Kansas,
1873
Charles Walter Stetson
An Easter Offering,
1896
Elihu Vedder; Chelsea Tile Works
Soul of the Sunflower,
1882
William Merritt Chase
Sunset Glow,
circa 1890–1895
Martin Johnson Heade
Jersey Meadows,
1875–1880
Emma Hurd
crazy quilt,
1886
Wayne Replogle
Catherine Sloan
Wedding Ring quilt,
circa 1930–1940
Carrie A. Hall
Four-Patch quilt block,
early 1900s
Mary Anne Jordan
Four Patch with Damage,
2014
Eleanor Bourassa Ziegler; Carrie Holland
Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt,
1930–1931
unrecorded Kotyit (Cochiti) artist
standing human figure,
circa 1880
Henry Salem Hubbell
By the Fireside,
1909
Ifie Espey Arnold; Rose Frances Good Kretsinger
Orchid Wreath quilt,
circa 1929–1945
Events
October 29, 2017
Talk
2:00–3:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art, Gallery 407
September 14, 2019
Activity
1:00–3:30PM
Spencer Museum of Art, Samuel H. Kress Foundation Gallery, 407