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).
2013
March 2013
Eugene Berman
The Good Samaritan (Le bon Samaritain), 1930
2012
March 2012
Jackson Pollock
Sleeping Effort, 1953
April 2012
Paul Klee
Zeichensammlung Südlich (Collection of Southern Signs), 1924
October 2012
Thomas Wilmer Dewing
Brocart de Venise (Venetian Brocade), c. 1904–05
December 2012
Daniel Hopfer
The Peasant Feast (c. 1533–36)
2011
April 2011
Henri Matisse
Nature morte aux oranges (II) [Still Life with Oranges (II)], c.1899
May 2011
Frederic Edwin Church
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, 1883
July 2011
Fernand Léger
Les Belles cyclistes, 1944
September 2011
Albrecht Dürer
Melencolia I, 1514
November 2011
Fumihiko Maki
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum building, 2006
2010
January 2010
Robert Motherwell
Interior with Pink Nude, 1951
March 2010
Unknown (Native North American, Mississippian, Dunklin County, Missouri, Woodlands, United States)
Wulffing Repoussé Plaques
April 2010
Max Beckmann
Day and Dream, 1946
August 2010
Allan McCollum
Pam Beale, 1971
September 2010
Alberto Burri
Gran Ferro M1, 1958, and Gran Ferro M3, 1959
October 2010
Philip Guston
If This By Not I, 1945
November 2010
Barbara Kruger
Untitled, 1989-90
2009
January 2009
Christian Boltanski
Padre Mariano, 1994
February 2009
Lorna Simpson
Counting, 1991
March 2009
Georges Braque
Nature morte et verre (Still Life with Glass), 1930
Still Life with Oysters, 1937
April 2009
Katharina Sieverding
Maton, 1969/1996
May 2009
Pierre Soulages
Peinture 200 x 265 cm, 20 mai 1959 (Painting 200 x 265 cm, 20 May 1959 ), 1959
August 2009
Howard Jones
Solo Two, 1966
September 2009
Wolfgang Tillmans
Portrait series
December 2009
Jean Dubuffet
Tête barbue (Bearded Head), 1959
Poches aux yeux (Bags under the Eyes), 1959
2008
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
May 2008
Bellows
Portrait of Geraldine Lee, No. 1, 1914
June 2008
Hosmer
Oenone, 1854-55
July 2008
Diaz de la Peña
Wood Interior, 1867
August 2008
Alexander Calder
Five Rudders, 1964
September 2008
Hermonax Painter
Nolan Amphora, 475-465 B.C.
October 2008
Rembrandt van Rijn
The Three Crosses, 1660-61
November 2008
Joseph Stella
Man in the Elevated (Train), 1916
December 2008
Raphael Soyer
Girl Standing Semi-nude, c. 1940
2007
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
