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Wednesday, August 18, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Spencer: Art out of hiding
This painting, "The Balad of the Jehous Lover of Lone Green Valley" by Thomas Hart Benton, was acquired in very poor condition and is undergoing extensive restoration. The young man playing the harmonica is Jackson Pollock, a student of Benton's and an artistic innovator in his own right.
The Riemanschneider Madonna is one of the best-loved and most missed pieces of the collection in storage, Eldredge said.
By KAREN SALISBURY
A large part of the art owned by the University of Kansas will be seen for the first time by the public when the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum opens in the fall of 1977.
Most of KU's 25,000 piece collection is stored in fireproof, humidity-controlled areas in Spencer and Watson libraries. Only about 500 objects can be displayed in Spooner Art Museum, a converted 19th century library, because of space restrictions and limited insurance coverage.
The Spencer Museum will provide four times the display space now available in Spooner and allow 5,000 objects to be exhibited permanently.
"SOME OF the familiar and well-loved works such as the Riemanschneider Madonna and paintings by Thomas Hart Benton will be viewed for the first time in when the museum opens." Charles Eldredge, director of Spooner Art Museum, said.
Renaissance and Baroque works will come out of exile, he said. Works from these periods are well represented in KU's collection.
The new museum will allow greater flexibility for display, improving esthetic as well as educational functions, Eldredge said.
"We won't be strictly confined to a rigid installation system," he said. "For example, we could hang a Japanese print next to a late 19th century European painting done in the Japanese manner to make an educational point."
These bronzes will be included in a subcollection of Western and Southwestern American art, Eldridge said.
"ALONG THE same line, contemporary European and American works will be mingled chronologically, unless a European counterpart for an American work doesn't exist, as in the case of the Remington bronzes," Eldredge said.
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