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Brosseau Center for Learning: Immigrants

Kate Meyer, curator

July 18, 2017–August 13, 2017

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

These selections are on view in conjunction with the July 21st K-12 Educator Workshop, Return to Sender: Exploring US Immigration Policy in the K-12 Classroom, hosted by the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies in partnership with the Spencer Museum of Art.

Works of art

Jolan Gross Bettelheim (1900–1972), Employment Office

Albert Abramovitz (1879–1963), Niagara Falls

Birger Sandzén (1871–1954), Landscape at Wild Horse Creek

Victor Brenner (1871–1924), Abraham Lincoln medal

Joseph Jacinto Mora (1876–1947), Tailing the Steer

Abraham Walkowitz (1878–1965), Red Barn

Marion Palfi (1907–1978), Los Angeles, 1946-49, An anti-Klan meeting

Marion Palfi (1907–1978), New York, 1956-58 (This woman received $30.00 per month in Social Security benefits. She paid from it her rent and utilities. One dollar was left over on which she lived. She was seeking old age...)

Thomas Nast (1840–1902), New York Victory (The Part of the Administration that Feels Very Much Indorsed)

Max Kalish (1891–1945), Laborer at Rest

Minoru Aoki (born 1936), Stokely Carmichael

Alberto Vargas (1896–1982), untitled (gatefold)

Elliott Erwitt (1928–2023), Pennsylvania Dutch & Adidas, Santa Cruz

Edward Steichen (1879–1973), Rockefeller Center

Weegee (1899–1968), Coney Island Beach, 4 p.m., July 21, 1940

Jack Delano (1914–1997), Sign on highway between Sykesville, Pennsylvania and Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania

Robert Frank (1924–2019), Politician, Republican Convention

Vija Celmins (born 1938); Ken Farley; Gemini G.E.L. (founded 1966); Doris Simmelink, Alliance

Louis Lozowick (1892–1973), New York (Brooklyn Bridge)

Ben Shahn (1898–1969), A Citizen Who Has Lost His Farm

Frank Cassara (1913–2017), Grain

Yoshida Tōshi (1911–1995), Monument Valley

Tseng Kwong Chi (1950–1990), Graceland, Tennessee

Lidya Buzio (1948–2014), untitled

Nikki S. Lee (born 1970), The Hip Hop Project (2)

Alexander Gardner (1821–1882), St. Mary's Mission, Kansas, Pottowatamie Indian School

Thomas Moran (1837–1926), Grand Canyon of Arizona

Hugo Gellert (1892–1985), Century of the Common Man

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew (born 1964), Whiteman/Indian

Obata Chiura (1885–1975); Takimazawa, Evening at Carl Inn

Rirkrit Tiravanija (born 1961), untitled (One Dollar Do We Dream Under)

Ganzeer (born 1982); Booklyn, Inc. (founded 1999); Wasp Print (founded 2011), One Dollar from Honest Money

Ganzeer (born 1982); Booklyn, Inc. (founded 1999); Wasp Print (founded 2011), Five Dollars from Honest Money

Ganzeer (born 1982); Booklyn, Inc. (founded 1999); Wasp Print (founded 2011), Ten Dollars from Honest Money

Ganzeer (born 1982); Booklyn, Inc. (founded 1999); Wasp Print (founded 2011), Twenty Dollars from Honest Money

Ganzeer (born 1982); Booklyn, Inc. (founded 1999); Wasp Print (founded 2011), Fifty Dollars from Honest Money

Ganzeer (born 1982); Booklyn, Inc. (founded 1999); Wasp Print (founded 2011), One Hundred Dollars from Honest Money

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