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Exhibition

This Land

Kate Meyer, curator

March 18, 2014–April 12, 2015

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

Charles Walter Stetson (1858–1911), An Easter Offering

Elihu Vedder (1836–1923); Chelsea Tile Works, Soul of the Sunflower

William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), Sunset Glow

Martin Johnson Heade (1819–1904), Jersey Meadows

Winslow Homer (1836–1910), Cloud Shadows

John Noble (1874–1934), Morning in the Flint Hills

United States Pottery Company (active 1847–1858), pitcher

The Van Briggle Art Pottery (active 1901–2012), vase

Anna Frances Simpson (1880–1930); Joseph Fortune Meyer (1848–1931); Newcomb Pottery (active 1895–1940), vase

Marie Levering Benson (1877–1958), vase

Marjorie Faye Whitney (1903–1998), covered jar with lid

Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), Kansas Wheat Scene

Raymond Eastwood (1898–1987), untitled (landscape with gray barns)

Henry Dexter (1806–1876), Bust of Amos Adams Lawrence

James Hess (active 1874–1884), View of Old North College

Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), The Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley

Hoerman Brothers Manufacturing Company (active 1893–1907), Eagle

Stephen Lee (born 1780), sideboard

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg (1814–1889), Portrait of Mrs. Francis Scott Key

Joseph Badger (1708–1765), Portrait of the Rev. Ellis Gray

Carrie A. Hall (1866–1955), George Washington Bi-Centennial quilt

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

Uncle Tom and Eva figure

James & Ralph Clews (active 1813–1834), soup plate

Campbell, Jones & Company (active 1865–1886), bread plate

Boston & Sandwich Glass Company (active 1825–1888), cup plate

Frederic Remington (1861–1909); Roman Bronze Works (founded 1899), The Bronco Buster

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

Andrew Michael Dasburg (1887–1979), Taos Valley

Ward Lockwood (1894–1963), Turn in the Road, Old Ledoux St.

Eanger Irving Couse (1866–1936), Apache Indian Camp in Taos Valley

Diego Romero (born 1964, active circa 1986–present), When Titans Collide

unrecorded Diné (Navajo) artist, silver dollar necklace with naja pendant

Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880), Morning in the Adirondacks

Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), Sunset on the Plains

Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), A Western Landscape

Robert Swain Gifford (1840–1905), A Kansas Ranch

Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975); Elden C. Tefft (1919–2015), Indian and Explorer

Joe Coleman (born 1955), The Ballad of Quantrill's Raiders

Henry Learned (1844–1895), Near Eudora, Kansas

Rookwood Pottery (active 1880–1967); Amelia Browne Sprague (1870–1951), vase

Julian Martinez (1897–1943); Maria Martinez (1887–1980), blackware olla (vase)

Thomas Sully (1783–1872), Miss C. Parsons as "The Lady of the Lake"

John Singleton Copley (1738–1815), Portrait of Elizabeth Copley (Mrs. Gardiner Greene)

The Three Children of Myron Lawrence

Events

July 5, 2014

Activity

This American Land

10:00AM–4:00PM

Gallery 407

July 6, 2014

Activity

This American Land

12:00–4:00PM

Gallery 407

July 13, 2014

Activity

This American Land

12:00–4:00PM

Gallery 407

July 12, 2014

Activity

This American Land

10:00AM–4:00PM

Gallery 407

July 19, 2014

Activity

This American Land

10:00AM–4:00PM

Gallery 407

July 26, 2014

Activity

This American Land

10:00AM–4:00PM

Gallery 407

July 20, 2014

Activity

This American Land

12:00–4:00PM

Gallery 407

July 27, 2014

Activity

This American Land

12:00–4:00PM

Gallery 407

June 21, 2014

Activity

In the Open Air

10:30–11:30AM