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Staging Kansas: Works from the Collection

Staging Kansas: Works from the Collection

Charles C. Eldredge, curator
students, curator

North Balcony, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

This selection examines the various ways in which artists of several generations have responded to the elaborate spectacle that is Kansas, the landscape and its people. Works by 29 artists are included.

Exhibition images

Works of art

Marie Levering Benson (1877–1958), vase

Marie Levering Benson (1877–1958), vase

Marie Levering Benson (1877–1958), vase

Streeter Blair (1888–1966), Threshing in Kansas 1900

Albert Bloch (1882–1961), Still Life in a Landscape

Ruth Harris Bohan (1891–1981), Dress Tent

Ruth Harris Bohan (1891–1981), The Politician

Dora Bryant (circa 1883–1964), vase

Thomas Coleman (1935–1971), Convention in Wichita

William Phelps Cunningham (1903–1980), Tri-County Fair

William Phelps Cunningham (1903–1980), Willows

John Steuart Curry (1897–1946), Design for Stage Set

John Steuart Curry (1897–1946), Storm Cloud

John Steuart Curry (1897–1946); Associated American Artists (active 1934–2000), John Brown

John Steuart Curry (1897–1946); Associated American Artists (active 1934–2000), Our Good Earth

Ernest Hubert Deines (1894–1967), Mother's Horseshoe Geranium

Ernest Hubert Deines (1894–1967), Joy on the Kaw Valley Loam

George de Mare (1863–1907), Portrait of Mlle. Eugenie H. Galloo

Terry Evans (born 1944), Between Kearney and Salina, June 13, 1990

John Philip Falter (1910–1982), Newsboy

Bernard Emerson Frazier (1906–1976), Rebekah (Soft Wind)

Arthur William Hall (1889–1981), Field Hand

Arthur William Hall (1889–1981), Kansas Farm in Winter

Clara Anna Hatton (1901–1991), Barn and Yucca

Mary Huntoon (1896–1970), 8th Street, Kansas City, MO

Rosemary Ketcham (1882–1940), Woods near the Kaw

Thomas Klaverkamp (1942–1986), Woman with Mirror

Ward Lockwood (1894–1963), preliminary sketch for Wichita, Kansas Post Office

Herschel Logan (1901–1987), Dust Storm

Ethel Magafan (1916–1993), Lawrence Massacre, Mural design for Fort Scott Kansas

Ethel Magafan (1916–1993), Lawrence Massacre, Mural design for the Fort Scott Post Office

F. O. Marvin (1852–1915), The Kaw at Lawrence

F. O. Marvin (1852–1915), Santa Fe Freight Depot near Lawrence

Karl Mattern (1892–1969), U.S. 40

Jon Blumb (born 1956); Joseph Judd Pennell (1866–1922), Washington Street

Charles B. Rogers (1911–1987), Twilight on the Plains

Charles B. Rogers (1911–1987), Last of the Stoics

Birger Sandzén (1871–1954), Wild Horse Creek

Larry Schwarm (born 1944), Grass/Winter Wheat Near Greensburg, KS

Paul Teeter (active 1920s), vase

Margaret Evelyn Whittemore (1897–1983), Bridge over Wakarusa River