Spencer Museum of Art Links
Spencer Museum of Art, The website for the museum includes information about exhibitions, the collections, programs, education, planning a visit, and more.
Printroom, Spencer Museum of Art, Includes nearly ten thousand works of art on paper (prints, drawings, photographs, and artists' books).
Publications about the Spencer Museum of Art
- Handbook of the Collection: Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art byLawrence, KS: Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1978. Published to commemorate the opening of the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, this book includes 350 works of art from the more more than 25,000 pieces in the museum's care. Objects are organized into chronological sections with images and a brief identification and commentary for each.
Calendar of the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas. Lawrence: The Museum, 1978-2009. Monthly record of exhibitions, acquisitions, events, and staff in the Museum.
Register of the Spencer Museum of Art. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1978-. Earlier issues are under the title Register of the Museum of Art of the University of Kansas. 1951-77. A very rudimentary index to Volumes 1-6 of the Register is shelved in the Art & Architecture Library's Reference area under Call Number N582.L25A35. A more up-to-date index to both the Register and the Calendar is being prepared to eventually be available online. Inquire at the Service Desk in the Art & Architecture Library if you'd like someone to search the available file.
Miscellaneous Publications of the
- Handbook byLawrence, 1962. Prepared when the art museum was housed in Spooner Hall, this highlights works from the collection in chronological sections. Sections have a brief introductory essay plus images and descriptions of the selected works.
- Catalogue of the Oriental Collection byLawrence: Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1980. A short introductory essay traces the history of the KU Asian art collection then the catalogue provides images and lengthy, scholarly essays on 146 objects.
- Catalogue of the Sculpture Collection byLawrence, KS: The Museum, University of Kansas, c1981. Presents an overview of the European and American sculpture collection in the Spencer Museum of Art. Art objects are organized chronologically and entries include a photograph plus substantial scholarly description, condition report and publication history.
Flowers, Dragons & Pine Trees: Asian Textiles in the Spencer Museum of Art by New York : Hudson Hills Press : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by National Book Network, c2004. Documentation on a collection of apx. 300 textiles dating from the 15th to the late 19th century from China, Japan, the Indian subcontinent, Iran, Indonesia, Central and Western Asia, and Korea- Surimono: Privately Published Japanese Prints in the Spencer Museum of Art byTokyo: Published for the Spencer Museum of Art by Kodansha International; New York: Distributed in the United States by Kodansha International/USA through Harper & Row, 1984. A catalogue of the more than 250 pieces of Surimono, privately published woodblock prints popular in Japan during the first third of the 19th century, held by the Spencer Museum of Art.
