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Brosseau Center for Learning: Populist Art in the Americas

January 28, 2020–February 16, 2020

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

These examples of populist art (art by the Mexican muralists, Mexican popular prints, and art from or related to the Celebrate People’s History project) have been selected for a collaborative program connecting Olathe North High School students, KU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Spencer Museum of Art, and will be on view through February 16th.

Works of art

Edgar Imler (1898–1973), Pueblo

David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896–1974), Guardian de la Paz (Guardian of the Peace)

José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949), Desocupados

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Sociologist Jane Jacobs, with her son, Ned, fifteen

Diego Rivera (1886–1957), untitled (two women carrying baskets on their heads)

Timothy H. O'Sullivan (1840–1882), Historic Spanish Record of the Conquest, South Side of Inscription Rock, New Mexico

Sebastião Salgado (born 1944), untitled, from the Serra Pelada Mine

Gordon Parks (1912–2006), The da Silva Family at Dawn

Francisco Mora (1922–2002), Bountiful Corn Harvest

Diego Rivera (1886–1957), Zapata

Leopoldo Méndez (1902–1968), Lo que no debe venir (That Which Must Not Come)

Luis Alfonso Jimenez (1940–2006); Lawrence Lithography Workshop (active 1998–2001), El Buen Pastor (The Good Shepherd)

Angel Bracho (1911–2005), Mano con espiga (Hand with Head of Wheat)

Luis Alfonso Jimenez (1940–2006); Lawrence Lithography Workshop (active 2001–present), Eagle and Snake

Taller Gráfica Popular; Arturo García Bustos (1926–2017), Compañias extranjeras. ¿Quién encenderá mi Chesterfield? (Foreign Companies. Who Will Light My Chesterfield?)

Ester Hernandez (born 1944), Sun Mad

Josh MacPhee (born 1973); Stumptown Printers (founded 1999); Nicolas Lampert (born 1969), Judi Bari

Josh MacPhee (born 1973); Stumptown Printers (founded 1999); Bobby Cortez; Blake Riley, Dolores Huerta

Kate Luscher; Josh MacPhee (born 1973); Stumptown Printers (founded 1999), EZLN

Josh MacPhee (born 1973); Stumptown Printers (founded 1999); Jesus Barraza (born 1976), Youth-Led Resistance to Immigration Raids and Deportations

Josh MacPhee (born 1973); Stumptown Printers (founded 1999); Tim Simons; Barucha Calamity Peller, Oaxaca Women's Resistance

Josh MacPhee (born 1973); Stumptown Printers (founded 1999); Sabrina Jones (born 1960), Jane Jacobs

Josh MacPhee (born 1973); Dave Loewenstein (born 1966); Stumptown Printers (founded 1999), Amazon Army

Josh MacPhee (born 1973); Stumptown Printers (founded 1999); Dylan Miner (born 1976), The Pueblo Revolt

Jesús Alvarez Amaya (1925–2010), La Tierra