2024 Collection Loans

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

Dyani White Hawk, Carry III

This Collection work was included in Preoccupied: Dyani White Hawk at The Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, MD, April 21, 2024 - January 5, 2025.

Dyani White Hawk (b. 1976, Madison, WI), Carry III, 2020, buckskin, synthetic sinew and thread, vintage glass beads, brass sequins, copper, vessel, copper ladle, 105 x 12 x 10 inches, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Courtesy of the artist and Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2021.04. © Dyani White Hawk, Courtesy of the artist and Bockley Gallery. Photo: E. G. Schempf, 2022.

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Elizabeth Layton, I am Loved

This Collection work was included in Elizabeth Layton: A Salon of One Venue and at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, KS, January 25-July 28, 2024.

Elizabeth Layton (American, born 1909), I am Loved, 1977, Mixed media and collage on poster board, 28 x 22 inches, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Gift of Don Lambert and the Lawrence Arts Center in honor of the 20th Anniversary of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 2013.25. © Estate of Elizabeth Layton. Photo: E. G. Schempf, 2019

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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Wayne Thiebaud, Cakes & Pies and Day Streets

These Collection works were included in Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art and at The Legion of Honor in San Francisco, CA, March 22–August 17, 2025.

Wayne Thiebaud (American, born 1920), Cakes & Pies , 1994-1995, Oil on canvas, 72 x 64 inches, Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Gift of the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundati

Wayne Thiebaud (American, born 1920), Cakes & Pies, 1994-1995, Oil on canvas, 72 x 64 inches, Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Gift of the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation, 1995.1. © Wayne Thiebaud/ Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: E. G. Schempf, 2019. For information on obtaining copyright permissions for reproducing this work of art, contact the Artist's Rights Society (ARS): www.arsny.com. For information about obtaining a larger image for reproduction, contact our registration department: communications@kemperart.org.

Wayne Thiebaud (American, born 1920), Day Streets , 1996, Oil on canvas, 59 3/4 x 48 inches, Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Gift of the William T. Kemper Charitable Trus

Wayne Thiebaud (American, born 1920), Day Streets, 1996, Oil on canvas, 59 3/4 x 48 inches, Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Gift of the William T. Kemper Charitable Trust, UMB Bank, n.a., Trustee, and the R. C. Kemper Charitable Trust, 1996.69. © Wayne Thiebaud/ Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: E.G. Schempf, 2018. For information on obtaining copyright permissions for reproducing this work of art, contact the Artist's Rights Society (ARS): www.arsny.com. For information about obtaining a larger image for reproduction, contact our registration department: communications@kemperart.org.

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Amy Sherald, Try on dreams until I find the one that fits me. They all fit me

This Collection work was included in Amy Sherald: American Sublime and at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November 16, 2024–March 9, 2025 and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 9–August 10, 2025.

Amy Sherald (American, born 1973), Try on dreams until I find the one that fits me. They all fit me, Oil on canvas, 54 x 43 inches, Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Museum purchase made possible by a gift from the Bebe and Crosby Kemper Foundation, 2017.02.01. © Amy Sherald. Photo: Monique Meloche Gallery

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Jamie Wyeth, Black Spruce and Bones of a Whale

These Collection works were included in Jamie Wyeth: Unsettled and at the Brandywine Museum of Art, Chadd’s Ford, PA, March 17–June 10, 2024 and Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, OH, March 15–June 8, 2025

Jamie Wyeth (American, born 1946), Black Spruce , 1994, Oil on panel, 36 x 30 inches, Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Gift of the William T. Kemper Charitable Trust, UMB

Jamie Wyeth (American, born 1946), Black Spruce, 1994, Oil on panel, 36 x 30 inches, Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Gift of the William T. Kemper Charitable Trust, UMB Bank, n.a., Trustee, 2002.3. © 2017 Jamie Wyeth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Dan Wayne. For information on obtaining copyright permissions for reproducing this work of art, contact the Artist's Rights Society (ARS): www.arsny.com. For information about obtaining a larger image for reproduction, contact our registration department: communications@kemperart.org.

Jamie Wyeth (American, born 1946), Bones of a Whale , 2006, Oil on canvas, 60 1/8 x 72 1/8 inches, Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Gift of the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foun

Jamie Wyeth (American, born 1946), Bones of a Whale, 2006, Oil on canvas, 60 1/8 x 72 1/8 inches, Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Gift of the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation, 2006.19. © 2017 Jamie Wyeth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: James Allison Photography, 2013. For information on obtaining copyright permissions for reproducing this work of art, contact the Artist's Rights Society (ARS): www.arsny.com. For information about obtaining a larger image for reproduction, contact our registration department: communications@kemperart.org.

Laura McPhee, Judy Tracking Radio-Collared Wolves from Her Yard, Summer Range, H-Hook Ranch, Custer County, Idaho

This Collection work was included in Strange and Familiar Places and at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 1–July 20, 2025.

Laura McPhee (American, born 1958), Judy Tracking Radio-Collared Wolves from Her Yard, Summer Range, H-Hook Ranch, Custer County, Idaho, 2004, Chromogenic print, 48 x 60 inches, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Gift of the artist and Carroll and Sons, Boston, 2017.04.01. © Laura McPhee. Photo: Joseph Carroll Gallery

Virginia Jaramillo, Anonymous Site 1-603 and Principle of Equivalence

These Collection works were on view in the final stages of the traveling survey Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence organized by the Kemper Museum. This work was included in Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Charlotte, NC, February 8–June 8, 2025.

Virginia Jaramillo (American, born 1939), Principle of Equivalence , 1975, Oil on canvas, 48 1/4 x 60 inches, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Gift of Robert and Sally West, 2012.01. © Virginia Jaramillo, c

Virginia Jaramillo (American, born 1939), Principle of Equivalence, 1975, Oil on canvas, 48 1/4 x 60 inches, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Gift of Robert and Sally West, 2012.01. © Virginia Jaramillo, courtesy of the artist and Drake Fine Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Photo: E. G. Schempf, 2019.

Virginia Jaramillo (American, born 1939), Anonymous Site #1-603 , 1990, Linen fiber paper on canvas, 69 x 60 inches, Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Gift of the William T

Virginia Jaramillo (American, born 1939), Anonymous Site #1-603, 1990, Linen fiber paper on canvas, 69 x 60 inches, Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Gift of the William T. Kemper Charitable Trust, UMB Bank, n.a., Trustee, 1995.045.01. Art and photo © Virginia Jaramillo, courtesy of the artist and Douglas Drake Fine Art, Kansas City, Missouri

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Gajin Fujita, Ride or Die

This Collection work was included in The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century and at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 5–July 16, 2023 and Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, December 4, 2024–April 6, 2025.

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 1/2 inches, Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Museum purchase, Enid and Crosby Kemper and William T. Kemper Acquisition Fund, 2005.39a–c. © Gajin Fujita, courtesy of the artist and L.A. Louver Gallery. Photograph courtesy of the artist and L.A. Louver Gallery

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