2022 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.
Barbara Chase-Riboud. Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale: The Bronzes at Pulitzer Arts Foundation, September 16, 2022 Februrary 5, 2023, © Barbara Chase-Riboud, Photograph by Virginia Harold © Pulitzer Arts Foundation
Artwork Credit: Barbara Chase-Riboud, (American, born 1939), Malcolm X #13, 2008, bronze with black patina, silk, wool, synthetic fibers, with steel support, 86¾ x 45 x 34½ 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 Bebe and Crosby Kemper Foundation, 2018.01.01. © Barbara Chase-Riboud; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY.
Photo: Visitor viewing Malcolm X #13 at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation photographed by Virginia Harold.
In the News:
Barbara Chase-Riboud: ‘The so-called culture war has nothing to do with culture’
The Guardian
The Monumental Work and Life of Barbara Chase-Riboud
New York Times
Barbara Chase-Riboud Breathes Life Into Bronze
Hyperallergic
Barbara Chase-Riboud: Carving Routes Toward Liberation
Sculpture Magazine
For Decades, Artist and Writer Barbara Chase-Riboud Has Used Abstraction to Confront Racism
Art News
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Joseph Stella, Dance of Spring (Song of the Birds)
Last year this Permanent Collection work began a national tour in the exhibition Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature which opened at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, FL in 2022. In 2023, Visionary Nature will be on view at the two museums that co-organized the exhibition, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA and the Brandywine Museum of Art in Chaddsforth, PA.
Joseph Stella, (American, 1877–1946), Dance of Spring (Song of the Birds), 1924, oil on canvas, 43⅜ x 32⅜ 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, 2003.03.01. Photo: James Allison Photography, 2013.
