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Brosseau Center for Learning: Bottles and Buildings

Kate Meyer, curator
Cara Nordengren, curator

February 24, 2026–March 22, 2026

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

This installation features objects selected for ARCH 541 Global History of Architecture II: Industrial Revolution through the Present. It also includes items related to the distilling industry selected for a panel on March 5th at the Spencer Research Library, “Innovation in Action: Jayhawks Shaping a Traditional Industry.”

Works of art

Horseshoe Saloon, Jon Blumb; Joseph Judd Pennell — Jon Blumb; Joseph Judd Pennell

Horseshoe Saloon, 1906

trade card, Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient — trade card, Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient, late 1800s

Veduta dell' Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo (View of the Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum), Giovanni Battista Piranesi — Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Veduta dell' Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo (View of the Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum), 1776

bottle — bottle, late 1800s

baluster from the Carson, Pirie, Scott building, Chicago, George Grant Elmslie; Louis Henry Sullivan — George Grant Elmslie; Louis Henry Sullivan

baluster from the Carson, Pirie, Scott building, Chicago, 1899–1904

Splitting, Gordon Matta-Clark — Gordon Matta-Clark

Splitting, 1974–1975

Izvestiia Building. Editorial Headquarters of Newspaper, Alexander Rodchenko — Alexander Rodchenko

Izvestiia Building. Editorial Headquarters of Newspaper, 1932

glass — glass, circa 1850–1900

Old and New New York, Alfred Stieglitz — Alfred Stieglitz

Old and New New York, 1910

whiskey glass — whiskey glass, 1800s

The Bible and Temperance #410, Nathaniel T. Currier — Nathaniel T. Currier

The Bible and Temperance #410, 1834–1857

trade card, Brown's Iron Bitters — trade card, Brown's Iron Bitters, late 1800s

Truckman's House, New York, Paul Strand; Richard Benson — Paul Strand; Richard Benson

Truckman's House, New York, 1920

"E.G. Booz's Old Cabin Whiskey" figural bottle — "E.G. Booz's Old Cabin Whiskey" figural bottle, circa 1931

Tropon - Eiweiss Nahrung (Tropon, Nourishment from Eggwhite), Henry van de Velde — Henry van de Velde

Tropon - Eiweiss Nahrung (Tropon, Nourishment from Eggwhite), 1896

Ichnographiam Campi Martii Antiquae Urbis ("Ichnographia," or Plan of the Campus Martius of the Ancient City), Giovanni Battista Piranesi — Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Ichnographiam Campi Martii Antiquae Urbis ("Ichnographia," or Plan of the Campus Martius of the Ancient City), 1757

trade card, Prickly Ash Bitters — trade card, Prickly Ash Bitters, late 1800s

Stage set — Stage set, circa 1918–1920s

glass — glass, date unknown

flask, Coventry Glass Works — Coventry Glass Works

flask, mid 1800s

Drawing for Voyages Pittoresque et Romantiques dans l'ancienne France, Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc — Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc

Drawing for Voyages Pittoresque et Romantiques dans l'ancienne France, 1842

whiskey flask — whiskey flask, 1860s

Old Crow, Robert Cottingham — Robert Cottingham

Old Crow, 1982