2021 Permanent Collection Loans
Kemper Museum extends the reach of its Permanent Collection by loaning artworks to other institutions to be presented in special exhibitions. In this way, the Permanent Collection engages new audiences across the globe and contributes to research and scholarship in contemporary art.
Yellow Jonquils #3 by Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887–1986) was on loan in the exhibition, Georgia O’Keeffe at Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional in Madrid, Spain and Centre Pompidou in Paris, France.
Georgia O'Keeffe, (American, 1887–1986), Yellow Jonquils #3, 1936, oil on canvas, 30¼ x 40¼ inches. Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Gift of the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation and the R. C. Kemper Charitable Trust, 2005.12.01. © 2020 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: James Allison Photography, 2013
This brief video on the exhibition produced by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional features “Yellow Jonquils #3.”
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"Georgia O’Keeffe Finally Arrives in Paris" – The New Yorker
“Paris is still under the gloomy pall of the coronavirus, but the city carries this off with élan. Proof of vaccination is mandatory in most places, and masks are required indoors, but everyone is courteous and no one seems to mind. Cafés are full, and traffic surges through the streets. Trottinettes—those narrow, elegant scooters—glide among the lanes, their drivers perfectly erect, one foot behind the other, like hieroglyphic Egyptian figures. Culture is blossoming: “Georgia O’Keeffe” opened recently at the National Museum of Modern Art-Pompidou Center, the first solo show of the artist’s work ever shown in France.”
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"American Original Georgia O’Keeffe Goes to Spain" – Wall Street Journal
“When the 20-year-old Georgia O’Keeffe burst onto the New York gallery scene in 1917, the American art world was under the sway of French Cubism. But O’Keeffe’s abstract charcoal drawings presented a version of modernism that was radically individual; she later described herself as “working into my own unknown—no one to satisfy but myself.” She didn’t make her first trip to Europe until 1953, when she was 66 years old, a mature artist.”
Tightrope: On the Edge by Elias Sime (Ethiopian, Born 1968) was on loan in the exhibition, Elias Sime: Tightrope, which was presented at Kemper Museum in 2020 and traveled to the Royal Ontario Museum from July–September 2021.
Elias Sime, Tightrope: On the Edge, 2015, reclaimed electronic components on eight panels, 48 x 258 ¾ inches. Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Museum purchase made possible by a gift from the William T. Kemper Charitable Trust, UMB Bank, n.a., Trustee, 2016.02.01. © Elias Sime, courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York. Photo: E. G. Schempf, 2019.
Kemper Museum Director of Curatorial Affairs Erin Dziedzic participated in the Traveling Exhibition Panel Discussion in September.