This Land
Exhibition
Exhibition Overview
This Land
Kate Meyer, curator
Gallery 407, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
This Land and Forms of Thought are two exhibitions that together explore intangible ideas. Works in This Land address nationhood, manifest destiny, westward expansion, and others related to our lives on Earth.
Exhibition images
Works of art
William Merritt Chase (1849–1916)
circa 1890–1895
Martin Johnson Heade (1819–1904)
1875–1880
John Noble (1874–1934)
circa 1927
United States Pottery Company (active 1847–1858)
1853–1858
The Van Briggle Art Pottery (active 1901–2012)
1919
1918
circa 1910
Marjorie Faye Whitney (1903–1998)
1939
Henry Dexter (1806–1876)
circa 1871–1876
James Hess (active 1874–1884)
1875
Hoerman Brothers Manufacturing Company (active 1893–1907)
late 1800s–1905
Stephen Lee (born 1780)
late 1700s–early 1800s
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg (1814–1889)
1848
Joseph Badger (1708–1765)
circa 1758
circa 1942
1804–1830
1852–1860s
James & Ralph Clews (active 1813–1834)
1819–1834
Campbell, Jones & Company (active 1865–1886)
1877
Boston & Sandwich Glass Company (active 1825–1888)
1839–1841
circa 1860–1900
1895, cast 1906
Andrew Michael Dasburg (1887–1979)
1928
unrecorded Diné (Navajo) artist
1945–1980
Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880)
1867
circa 1887
late 1860s or 1870s
Joe Coleman (born 1955)
1992
Henry Learned (1844–1895)
1873
Rookwood Pottery (active 1880–1967); Amelia Browne Sprague (1870–1951)
1900
1934–1943
Thomas Sully (1783–1872)
1812
late 1830s–1840s