This Land

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

This Land
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

Charles Walter Stetson
1896
Elihu Vedder, Chelsea Tile Works
1882
William Merritt Chase
circa 1890–1895
Martin Johnson Heade
1875–1880
Winslow Homer
1890
John Noble
circa 1927
United States Pottery Company
1853–1858
The Van Briggle Art Pottery
1919
Anna Frances Simpson, Joseph Fortune Meyer, Newcomb Pottery
1918
Marie Levering Benson
circa 1910
Marjorie Faye Whitney
1939
Thomas Hart Benton
1953
Henry Dexter
circa 1871–1876
Hoerman Brothers Manufacturing Company
late 1800s–1905
Stephen Lee
late 1700s–early 1800s
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg
1848
Joseph Badger
circa 1758
Alberto Vargas
circa 1942
1804–1830
James & Ralph Clews
1819–1834
Campbell, Jones & Company
1877
Boston & Sandwich Glass Company
1839–1841
circa 1860–1900
Frederic Remington, Roman Bronze Works
1895, cast 1906
John Steuart Curry
1923
Andrew Michael Dasburg
1928
Eanger Irving Couse
1912
Diego Romero
1999
unrecorded Diné (Navajo) artist
1945–1980
Sanford Robinson Gifford
1867
Albert Bierstadt
circa 1887
Albert Bierstadt
late 1860s or 1870s
Robert Swain Gifford
1888
Thomas Hart Benton, Elden C. Tefft
1960
Henry Learned
1873
Rookwood Pottery, Amelia Browne Sprague
1900
Julian Martinez, Maria Martinez
1934–1943
John Singleton Copley
1800–1803

Events

June 21, 2014
Activity
10:30–11:30AM
July 5, 2014
Activity
10:00AM–4:00PM
Gallery 407
July 6, 2014
Activity
12:00–4:00PM
Gallery 407
July 12, 2014
Activity
10:00AM–4:00PM
Gallery 407
July 13, 2014
Activity
12:00–4:00PM
Gallery 407
July 19, 2014
Activity
10:00AM–4:00PM
Gallery 407
July 20, 2014
Activity
12:00–4:00PM
Gallery 407
July 26, 2014
Activity
10:00AM–4:00PM
Gallery 407
July 27, 2014
Activity
12:00–4:00PM
Gallery 407