Eternal Spring: Pines

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

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Eternal Spring: Pines
Kris Ercums, curator
January 17, 2025–June 29, 2025
Gallery 408, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

The ability of pine trees to remain green during winter and live for centuries has made them closely associated with immortality throughout East Asia. This installation complements the ceramics on view in Eternal Spring in the Lee Study Center.

Works of art

Akari BB1-30DL lamp, Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi
Akari BB1-30DL lamp, designed 1951
Akari BB1-30DL lamp, Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi
Akari BB1-30DL lamp, designed 1951
Pine Spirit, Wu Guanzhong
Wu Guanzhong
Pine Spirit, 1984
Secluded Life in a Pine Valley, Wu Jingting
Wu Jingting
Secluded Life in a Pine Valley, 1940, Republic of China (1911–1949)
Pine and Wood Pigeons in Autumn, Kanō Naonobu
Kanō Naonobu
Pine and Wood Pigeons in Autumn, 1600s, Edo period (1600–1868)