Brosseau Center for Learning: The Stars, Ourselves

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

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Brosseau Center for Learning: The Stars, Ourselves
Gallery 318, The Jack and Lavon Brosseau Center for Learning, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Selections to support the December 30th Home for the Holidays Tours with Director Saralyn Reece Hardy.

Works of art

Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813), Frontispice
Frontispice
Filippo Morghen, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel
circa 1764–1772
Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813), Numero 1. Rappresenta un Selvaggio montato sopra un Serpente alato che combatte con una fiera somigliante ad un Porco Spino
Numero 1. Rappresenta un Selvaggio montato sopra un Serpente alato che combatte con una fiera somigliante ad un Porco Spino
Filippo Morghen, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel
circa 1764–1772
Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813), Numero 2. Una nuova macchina per fendere da Capo a Coda le fiere (A new machine in order to cleave from head to tail the wild beast)
Numero 2. Una nuova macchina per fendere da Capo a Coda le fiere (A new machine in order to cleave from head to tail the wild beast)
Filippo Morghen, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel
circa 1764–1772
Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813), Numero 3. Le Carrozze che si usano nella Luna e che vanno alla vela (The carriage that one uses on the moon that can also sail)
Numero 3. Le Carrozze che si usano nella Luna e che vanno alla vela (The carriage that one uses on the moon that can also sail)
Filippo Morghen, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel
circa 1764–1772
Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813), Numero 4. Maniera di navigare a forza di Mantici praticata in quel Globo (Method of shipping by means of a bellow as practiced on that planet)
Numero 4. Maniera di navigare a forza di Mantici praticata in quel Globo (Method of shipping by means of a bellow as practiced on that planet)
Filippo Morghen, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel
circa 1764–1772
Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813), Numero 5. Maniera di trasportare le merci sopra Zattere tirate da un Mantice (Method of transporting goods on rafts blown by a bellow)
Numero 5. Maniera di trasportare le merci sopra Zattere tirate da un Mantice (Method of transporting goods on rafts blown by a bellow)
Filippo Morghen, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel
circa 1764–1772
Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813), Numero 6. Zucca che serve per barca da Pescare (A pumpkin that serves as a boat for fishing)
Numero 6. Zucca che serve per barca da Pescare (A pumpkin that serves as a boat for fishing)
Filippo Morghen, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel
circa 1764–1772
Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813), Numero 7. Zucche che servono d'abitazioni per garantirsi dalle fiere (Pumpkins that serve as residences to protect themselves from wild beasts)
Numero 7. Zucche che servono d'abitazioni per garantirsi dalle fiere (Pumpkins that serve as residences to protect themselves from wild beasts)
Filippo Morghen, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel
circa 1764–1772
Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813), Numero 8. Barca che ha per vela le ali d'un grandissimo Uccello (A boat that has the wings of a huge bird for sailing)
Numero 8. Barca che ha per vela le ali d'un grandissimo Uccello (A boat that has the wings of a huge bird for sailing)
Filippo Morghen, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel
circa 1764–1772
Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813), Numero 9. Abitazione dentro l'aqua, e nuova maniera di chiamare l'Oche a Suon di Tamburo (A dwelling on the water and a new manner of calling the geese by the sound of a drum)
Numero 9. Abitazione dentro l'aqua, e nuova maniera di chiamare l'Oche a Suon di Tamburo (A dwelling on the water and a new manner of calling the geese by the sound of a drum)
Filippo Morghen, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel
circa 1764–1772
Elihu Vedder (1836–1923), The Pleiades
The Pleiades
Elihu Vedder
circa 1885–1887
Chesley K. Bonestell (1888–1986), “The children laughed at the way everyone’s hair stood on end. The stewardess explained that this was caused by the gravitational pull of the moon.”
“The children laughed at the way everyone’s hair stood on end. The stewardess explained that this was caused by the gravitational pull of the moon.”
Chesley K. Bonestell
1950
Chesley K. Bonestell (1888–1986), Artificial Satellite
Artificial Satellite
Chesley K. Bonestell
circa 1949
Lowell Nesbitt (1933–1993), Moonshot
Moonshot
Lowell Nesbitt
1969
Lowell Nesbitt (1933–1993), Moonshot
Moonshot
Lowell Nesbitt
1969
Lowell Nesbitt (1933–1993), Moonshot
Moonshot
Lowell Nesbitt
1969
presepio nativity scene
presepio nativity scene
circa 1770