Archives

The scholarly essays in the Kemper Art Museum's spotlight feature are meant to provide analysis and context to selected works in the Museum's permanent collection. See below for an archive of past spotlight essays (all in .pdf format).

January 2007
Lucebert
The Menaced House, 1962

February 2007
Bearden
Black Venus, 1968

March 2007
Von Bonin
Rockstars (Character Appropriation), 2003

April 2007
Albers
Homage to the Square, 1951-55

May 2007
Ackermann
Condominium, 1994-2002

June 2007
Fraser
Little Frank and His Carp, 2001

July 2007
Beckmann
Les Artistes mit Gemüse (Artists with Vegetables ), 1943

August 2007
Hartley
The Iron Cross, 1915

September 2007
Baldessari
Two Compositions (Formal/Informal; Interior/Exterior), 1990

October 2007
Eakins
Portrait of W. D. Marks, 1886

November 2007
Corot
Le chemin des vieux, Luzancy, Seine-et-Marne (The Path of the Old People), 1871-72

December 2007
Eliasson
Your Imploded View (2001)

January 2008
Meidner
Selbstbildnis ( Self-Portrait ), 1912

February 2008
Jones
Landscape, 1932

March 2008
Ernst
L'oeil du silence (The Eye of Silence ), 1943-44

April 2008
de Kooning
Saturday Night, 1956