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Exhibition

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 (1836–1910), Cloud Shadows

John Noble (1874–1934), Morning in the Flint Hills

United States Pottery Company (active 1847–1858), pitcher

The Van Briggle Art Pottery (active 1901–2012), vase

Anna Frances Simpson (1880–1930); Joseph Fortune Meyer (1848–1931); Newcomb Pottery (active 1895–1940), vase

Rookwood Pottery (active 1880–1967); Amelia Browne Sprague (1870–1951), vase

Marie Levering Benson (1877–1958), vase

Marjorie Faye Whitney (1903–1998), covered jar with lid

Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), Kansas Wheat Scene

Raymond Eastwood (1898–1987), untitled (landscape with gray barns)

Henry Dexter (1806–1876), Bust of Amos Adams Lawrence

Julian Martinez (1897–1943); Maria Martinez (1887–1980), blackware olla (vase)

James Hess (active 1874–1884), View of Old North College

Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), The Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley

Hoerman Brothers Manufacturing Company (active 1893–1907), Eagle

Stephen Lee (born 1780), sideboard

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg (1814–1889), Portrait of Mrs. Francis Scott Key

Joseph Badger (1708–1765), Portrait of the Rev. Ellis Gray

Uncle Tom and Eva figure

James & Ralph Clews (active 1813–1834), soup plate

Campbell, Jones & Company (active 1865–1886), bread plate

Boston & Sandwich Glass Company (active 1825–1888), cup plate

Frederic Remington (1861–1909); Roman Bronze Works (founded 1899), The Bronco Buster

John Steuart Curry (1897–1946), The Code of the West

Andrew Michael Dasburg (1887–1979), Taos Valley

Ward Lockwood (1894–1963), Turn in the Road, Old Ledoux St.

Eanger Irving Couse (1866–1936), Apache Indian Camp in Taos Valley

Diego Romero (born 1964, active circa 1986–present), When Titans Collide

unrecorded Diné (Navajo) artist, silver dollar necklace with naja pendant

Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880), Morning in the Adirondacks

Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), Sunset on the Plains

Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), A Western Landscape

Robert Swain Gifford (1840–1905), A Kansas Ranch

Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975); Elden C. Tefft (1919–2015), Indian and Explorer

John Singleton Copley (1738–1815), Portrait of Elizabeth Copley (Mrs. Gardiner Greene)

Joe Coleman (born 1955), The Ballad of Quantrill's Raiders

Henry Learned (1844–1895), Near Eudora, Kansas

Charles Walter Stetson (1858–1911), An Easter Offering

Elihu Vedder (1836–1923); Chelsea Tile Works, Soul of the Sunflower

William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), Sunset Glow

Martin Johnson Heade (1819–1904), Jersey Meadows

Emma Hurd (1858–1936), crazy quilt

Wayne Replogle (1904–1977), Chief Tendoy on the Bannock Trail in Yellowstone

Catherine Sloan (1906–1993), Wedding Ring quilt

Carrie A. Hall (1866–1955), Four-Patch quilt block

Mary Anne Jordan (born 1957), Four Patch with Damage

Eleanor Bourassa Ziegler (1853–1937); Carrie Holland (1886–1951), Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt

unrecorded Kotyit (Cochiti) artist, standing human figure

Henry Salem Hubbell (1870–1949), By the Fireside

Ifie Espey Arnold (1870–1945); Rose Frances Good Kretsinger (1886–1963), Orchid Wreath quilt

Events

January 22, 2017

Talk

Crazy Quilt

2:00–3:30PM

Spencer Museum of Art, Gallery 407

January 28, 2017

Activity

Kansas, To the Stars!

1:00–4:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art, Gallery 407

July 30, 2017

Talk

Morning in the Adirondacks

2:00–3:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art, Gallery 407

October 29, 2017

Talk

The Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley

2:00–3:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art, Gallery 407

September 14, 2019

Activity

Comic Book Collage

1:00–3:30PM

Spencer Museum of Art, Samuel H. Kress Foundation Gallery, 407