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Exhibition

Soundings

Charles C. Eldredge, curator

September 15, 2018–December 16, 2018

Gallery 404, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Soundings—developed by guest curator Charles C. Eldredge—illuminated objects from the Spencer Museum’s collection that depict the exceptional strength and depth of the Museum’s collection of American art.

Exhibition images

Works of art

Elmer Simms Campbell (1906–1971), "My Personal Tastes Vary from Those of the Curators"

Kenyon Cox (1856–1919), nude study of Rectitude

Alexander Cañedo (1902–1978), Male Nude with Mannequin

E. Lowenstein, "At Last–The Flivver House"

Wayne Thiebaud (1920–2021), Palm

Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997), No-Nox

Peter G. Thompson (1939–2025), Frame

Emil James Bisttram (1895–1976), Cosmic Web

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Mae West

David Wilcox (born 1943), Ol' Man Rivers

Ben Somoroff (1915–1984), Richard M. Nixon's Chinese Feast

Chesley K. Bonestell (1888–1986), Esquire in New Orleans

David Ligare (born 1945), Sand Drawing #9

Ed Paschke (1939–2004), Hairy Shoes #1

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986), Pink and Green Mountains, No. 1

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

Thomas Pollack Anshutz (1851–1912), Portrait of David Wilson Jordan as a Dutchman

Will Hicok Low (1853–1932), The Healing Touch

Elihu Vedder (1836–1923), Study for "The Lost Mind"

Walter Stuempfig (1914–1970), The Bathers

Peter Voulkos (1924–2002), Mother

David James Gilhooly (1943–2013), The Mummy of Frogtosis, II (Frog Mummy)

Arthur Bowen Davies (1862–1928), Leda and the Dioscuri

Les Krims (born 1942), Nude with Balloon

William Zorach (1887–1966), Dahlov; Figure of a Child with Clenched Fists

Anna Larkin (1855–1939), Standing Woman

Elie Nadelman (1882–1946), standing figure

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.”

Marsden Hartley (1877–1943), Apples on Table

Claude Buck (1890–1974), The Conqueror Worm

Events

November 17, 2018

Activity

Playful Clay Sarcophagus

1:00–4:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art, Larry and Barbara Marshall Family Balcony, 404

November 10, 2018

Conference

Homecoming: Five Decades of American Art Studies at the University of Kansas, Sessions II-V

8:30AM–5:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art, Room 211

October 11, 2018

Talk

Seeing Soundings

10:15–11:15AM

Spencer Museum of Art, Larry and Barbara Marshall Family Balcony, 404

October 5, 2018

Talk

Soundings

2:00–3:00PM

Spencer Museum of Art, Larry and Barbara Marshall Family Balcony, 404

November 9, 2018

Conference

Homecoming: Five Decades of American Art Studies at the University of Kansas, Session I

3:30–5:00PM

Kansas Union, Alderson Auditorium, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd

November 9, 2018

Talk

Homecoming: Five Decades of American Art Studies at the University of Kansas

2:15–2:45PM

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