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Spooner houses variety of art
THE EUROPEAN AND ORIental decorative arts collection is expanding, just as medals and placquettes from the Renaissance to the present is a maturing collection.
By GIRMA NEGASH
In addition to these, various loan exhibitions are displayed during the year.
As one passes through the main gallery on the first floor at the east end of the hall, attention is drawn to a statue of the "Virgin with the Christ Child."
Despite the fact that 100,000 visitors come to KU's Art Museum, located on the corner of 14th Street and Jayhawk Blvd., many students are not familiar with this facility.
Art historians, artists, and art students are among the more frequent visitors, as Spooner Museum functions primarily as an educational institution.
The premier exhibition for this year was Islamic Art. The permanent collections include European and American paintings, and sculptures from medieval to modern times.
There are several valuable collections of art objects among the museum's treasures. The Samuel H.Kress study collection of Medieval and Renaissance paintings is one.
A pioneer collection is the W. B. Thayer memorial collection which includes European and Oriental art.
This statue was carved in lindenwood by Tilman Riemenschneider around 1490. He is considered the greatest Gothic sculptor of Germany.
Also in the main gallery are Italian Renaissance art works. "Prudence and Fortitude," two allegorical figures sculptured in marble, are described as "among the most important works to enter any university museum collection in recent years," according to Miss Marilyn Stokstad, director of the museum.
Bret Waller, curator of the museum, described these two works in an article for the Kansas alumni magazine (Nov., 1965): "Fortitude' as depicted here, grapples with a heavy column symbolizing
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ST. LOUIS — (UPI) — Sherry Lee Barber is the third generation of her family to attend the same Clay Elementary Public School.
She registered for first grade at the school which her mother, Mrs. Sandra Barber, and her grandmother, Mrs. Viola Helms, attended. All three showed up for September registration.
Samson's destruction of the temple of the Philistines—rather like the role of a university museum dedicated to pulling down walls of prejudice that blind students to the significance of the arts of the past and present.
"Prudence' gazes into a mirror, reflecting the wisdom in her own eyes, an apt symbol of the museum's teaching program with its strong emphasis on visual education."
THE SCULPTOR of these two pieces has not yet been determined. The style however, is of the Italian High Renaissance period.
"Portrait of Line Campineanu," a portrait study of the daughter
of a Romanian government official of the 19th century, is one of the paintings located in the upper gallery.
Other priceless paintings exhibited in the museum are: "La Pia" by Dante Gabriel Rosetti, "Elizabeth, Countess of Ancrum" by Joshua Reynolds, and "Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley" by Thomas Hart Benton.
Spooner Hall, which houses these collections, is one of the oldest buildings on the Hill. Designed by William Van Brunt, the Basilian church-type building is constructed in the Romanesque revival style.
In 1804, it was constructed as a
library. Thirty years later, when the library was moved into the Watson Library building, Spooner was remodeled to house the Thayer art collection. At this time, it was named "Spooner-Thayer Museum."
The name was changed to "The Museum of Art of the University of Kansas," in 1946.
The Weaver Memorial Fountain Court in recent years converted the adjoining slope into a sculptured garden.
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Daily Kansan Wednesday, October 26, 1966
featuring NIPSEY RUSSELL
introducing NOVA MOUSKOURI
Tuesday, Nov. 1
1966
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