Archives

The scholarly essays in the Kemper Art Museum's spotlight feature are meant to provide analysis and context to selected works in the Museum's permanent collection. See below for an archive of past spotlight essays (all in .pdf format).

January 2007
Lucebert
The Menaced House, 1962

February 2007
Bearden
Black Venus, 1968

March 2007
Von Bonin
Rockstars (Character Appropriation), 2003

April 2007
Albers
Homage to the Square, 1951-55

May 2007
Ackermann
Condominium, 1994-2002

June 2007
Fraser
Little Frank and His Carp, 2001

July 2007
Beckmann
Les Artistes mit Gemüse (Artists with Vegetables ), 1943

August 2007
Hartley
The Iron Cross, 1915

September 2007
Baldessari
Two Compositions (Formal/Informal; Interior/Exterior), 1990

October 2007
Eakins
Portrait of W. D. Marks, 1886

November 2007
Corot
Le chemin des vieux, Luzancy, Seine-et-Marne (The Path of the Old People), 1871-72

December 2007
Eliasson
Your Imploded View (2001)

January 2008
Meidner
Selbstbildnis ( Self-Portrait ), 1912

February 2008
Jones
Landscape, 1932

March 2008
Ernst
L'oeil du silence (The Eye of Silence ), 1943-44

April 2008
de Kooning
Saturday Night, 1956

May 2008
Bellows
Portrait of Geraldine Lee, No. 1, 1914

June 2008
Hosmer
Oenone, 1854-55

July 2008
Diaz de la Peña
Wood Interior, 1867

August 2008
Alexander Calder
Five Rudders, 1964

September 2008
Hermonax Painter
Nolan Amphora, 475-465 B.C.

October 2008
Rembrandt van Rijn
The Three Crosses, 1660-61

November 2008
Joseph Stella
Man in the Elevated (Train), 1916

December 2008
Raphael Soyer
Girl Standing Semi-nude, c. 1940

January 2009
Christian Boltanski
Padre Mariano, 1994

February 2009
Lorna Simpson
Counting, 1991

March 2009
Georges Braque
Nature morte et verre (Still Life with Glass), 1930
and Still Life with Oysters (1937)

April 2009
Katharina Sieverding
Maton, 1969/1996

May 2009
Pierre Soulages
Peinture 200 x 265 cm, 20 mai 1959 (Painting 200 x 265 cm, 20 May 1959 ), 1959

August 2009
Howard Jones
Solo Two
1966