2023 Permanent Collection Loans

Kemper Museum extends the reach of its Permanent Collection by loaning artworks to other institutions across the globe to be presented in special exhibitions. In this way, the Permanent Collection engages new audiences and contributes to research and scholarship in contemporary art.

Barbara Chase-Riboud, Malcolm X #13

This Permanent Collection work was included in the first retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work, Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale: The Bronzes at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, Mo.

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.

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Photo: Visitor viewing Malcolm X #13 at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation photographed by Virginia Harold.

Joseph Stella, Dance of Spring (Song of the Birds)

Last year this Permanent Collection work continued 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 was 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.

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Gajin Fujita, Ride or Die

Last year this Permanent Collection work began an international tour in the exhibition The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century which opened at the Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, MD and traveled to the St Louis Art Museum in St. Louis, MO in 2023. In 2024, The Culture will travel to Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany; Cincinnati Art Museum in Cincinnati, OH; and Art Gallery of Ontario in Ontario, Canada.

Gajin Fujita (American, born 1972), Ride or Die, 2005, spray paint, paint marker, paint stick, gold and white gold leaf on wood panels, 84 x 132 ½ x inches, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Museum purchase, Enid and Crosby Kemper and William T. Kemper Acquisition Fund, 2005.39.01. © Gajin Fujita, courtesy of the artist and LA. Louver Gallery. Photo: E. G. Schempf, 2021.

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Joiri Minaya, Divergences series

Joiri Minaya’s Divergences series, included in the 2020 Atrium Project commissioned installation, are on view in the exhibition Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, which opened at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, TN in 2023. In 2024, the exhibition will travel to the Museum of Fine Art Houston in Houston, TX and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.

Joiri Minaya (Dominican American, born 1990), Away from prying eyes , 2020, archival pigment print on paper, 40 x 60 inches, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Museum purchase made possible by a gift from th

Joiri Minaya (Dominican American, born 1990), Away from prying eyes, 2020, archival pigment print on paper, 40 x 60 inches, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Museum purchase made possible by a gift from the Kemper Family Foundation, 2021.05.03. Art and photo © Joiri Minaya, 2020.

Joiri Minaya (Dominican American, born 1990), Irreducible convergence , 2020, archival pigment print on paper, 40 x 60 inches, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Museum purchase made possible by a gift from t

Joiri Minaya (Dominican American, born 1990), Irreducible convergence, 2020, archival pigment print on paper, 40 x 60 inches, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Museum purchase made possible by a gift from the Kemper Family Foundation, 2021.05.02. Art and photo © Joiri Minaya, 2020.

Joiri Minaya (Dominican American, born 1990), Shedding , 2020, archival pigment print on paper, 40 x 60 inches, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Museum purchase made possible by a gift from the Kemper Famil

Joiri Minaya (Dominican American, born 1990), Shedding, 2020, archival pigment print on paper, 40 x 60 inches, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Museum purchase made possible by a gift from the Kemper Family Foundation, 2021.05.01. Art and photo © Joiri Minaya, 2020.

Joiri Minaya (Dominican American, born 1990), Emergence I , 2020, archival pigment print on paper, 40 x 60 inches, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Museum purchase made possible by a gift from the Kemper F

Joiri Minaya (Dominican American, born 1990), Emergence I, 2020, archival pigment print on paper, 40 x 60 inches, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Museum purchase made possible by a gift from the Kemper Family Foundation, 2021.05.04. Art and photo © Joiri Minaya, 2020.

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