American Etchers Abroad
The end of the 19th century saw an abundance of American painters traveling to Europe. The practice of etching saw increased popularity in this era as painters put down their brushes and began to produce prints. Reed Anderson explores explores the detail work of these Americ…
American Indian Art Collection
Spencer Museum of Art poster.
Flora Botanica Quilts from the Spencer Museum of Art
In conjunction with the Quilts Exhibit.
Trees and Other Ramifications
Spencer Museum of Art poster
Register Vol. 7 No. 8
This register covers acquisitions and events from July 2005 to June 2006. Featured articles include: Rembrandt's Religious Burlesque in The Sleeping Herdsman,by Mary A. Spellman; An Ink-Bamboo Painting at the Spencer Museum of Art: A Reconsideration and Reevalua…
Flowers, Dragons, and Pine Trees: Asian Textiles in the Spencer Museum of Art by Mary M. Dusenbury
Flowers, Dragons, and Pine Trees document the collection of textiles at The Spencer Museum of Art. The collection, a gift from Sallie Casey Thayer in 1917, consists of over seventy-five hundred works from Europe, East Asia, and The United States. Since then, the Asi…
The Prints of Roger Shimomura: A Catologue Raisonne, 1968-2005
Best known as a painter and theater artist, Shimomura explores his Japanese-American identity through a vibrant and provocative stylistic combination of twentieth-century American Pop art and traditional eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japanese woodblock prints. This publ…
Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist
Wendell Castle
Wendell Castle: About Time explores the innovative work of the internationally-known artist, who was born in Emporia, Kan., and earned two degrees from the University of Kansas. This book includes an interview with Castle and an essay by Charles Eldredge, both of wh…