We invite you to learn more about the Museum's collection through the Spotlight Series. In this series of essays, a range of authors—curators, educators, faculty members, and graduate students—provide analysis and stimulating points of discussion on selected works from the permanent collection. Artworks are listed alphabetically by the last name of the artist below.
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
Franz Ackermann
Condominium, 1994–2002
Jodi Kovach
May 2007
Josef Albers
Homage to the Square: Aurora, 1951–55
Michael Murawski
April 2007; updated 2016
B
John Baldessari
Two Compositions (Formal/Informal; Interior/Exterior), 1990
Catharina Manchanda
September 2007; updated 2016
Thomas Ball
Freedom's Memorial, 1875
Katherine B. Harnish
April 2015
Yto Barrada
Landslip, Cromlech de Mzora, 2001
Tunnel—Disused Survey Site for a Morocco–Spain Connection, 2002
Ila Sheren
April 2014; updated 2016
Romare Bearden
Black Venus, 1968
Meredith Malone
February 2007; updated 2016
Max Beckmann
Les artistes mit Gemüse (Artists with Vegetable), 1943
Sabine Eckmann
July 2007; updated 2016
Max Beckmann
Day and Dream, 1946
Sydney Norton
April 2010
George Wesley Bellows
Portrait of Geraldine Lee, No. 1, 1914
Michael Murawski
May 2008
Eugene Berman
The Good Samaritan (Le bon Samaritain), 1930
Keith Holz
March 2013; revised 2016
Christian Boltanski
Padre Mariano, 1994
Rebecca DeRoo
January 2009
Cosima von Bonin
Rockstars (Character Appropriation), 2003
Jodi Kovach
March 2007
Georges Braque
Nature morte et verre (Still Life with Glass), 1930
Karen K. Butler
March 2009; revised 2016
Alberto Burri
Gran Ferro M1, 1958
Gran Ferro M3, 1959
Karen K. Butler
September 2010
C
Alexander Calder
Five Rudders, 1964
Meredith Malone
August 2008; updated 2016
Frederic Edwin Church
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, 1883
Matthew Bailey
May 2011; updated 2016
Thomas Cole
Aqueduct near Rome, 1832
William L. Coleman
February 2016
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Le chemin des vieux, Luzancy, Seine-et-Marne (The Path of the Old People), 1871–72
Noelle Paulson Bradley
November 2007; revised 2016
D
Honoré Daumier
Europe, 1867
Maxime Valsamas
March 2016
Willem de Kooning
Saturday Night, 1956
John J. Curley
April 2008; updated 2008
Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña
Wood Interior, 1867
Rachel Keith
July 2008; updated 2016
Jean Dubuffet
Tête barbue (Bearded Head), 1959
Poches aux yeux (Bags under the Eyes), 1959
Karen K. Butler
December 2009; updated 2016
Albrecht Dürer
Melencolia I, 1514
Ryan Gregg
September 2011; updated 2016
E
Thomas Eakins
Portrait of Professor W. D. Marks, 1886
Emilie Boone
October 2007
Nicole Eisenman
Tea Party, 2012
Kelly Shindler
November 2015; updated 2016
Olafur Eliasson
Your Imploded View, 2001
Meredith Malone
December 2007; updated 2016
Max Ernst
L'oeil du silence (The Eye of Silence), 1943–44
Sabine Eckmann
March 2008; updated 2016
F
Andrea Fraser
Little Frank and His Carp, 2001
Meredith Malone
June 2007; updated 2016
G
Paul Gauguin
Te Atua (The Gods), 1899
Elizabeth C. Childs
September 2016
Isa Genzken
Bill II, 2001
Little Crazy Column, 2002
Svea Bräunert
September 2016
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Early October in the White Mountains, 1860
Rheinstein, 1872–74
Venetian Sails: A Study, 1873
Jennifer Padgett
December 2013; updated 2016
Hendrick Goltzius
The Great Hercules, 1589
Marisa Bass
October 2013; updated 2016
Philip Guston
If This Be Not I, 1945
Lynette Roth
October 2010; updated 2016
H
Marsden Hartley
The Iron Cross, 1915
Michael Murawski
August 2007; updated 2016
Hermonax
Nolan Amphora, 475–465 B.C.
Grizelda McClelland
September 2008
Daniel Hopfer
The Peasant Feast, c. 1533–36
Elizabeth Wyckoff
December 2012; revised 2016
Harriet Hosmer
Oenone, 1854–55
Erin Sutherland Minter
June 2008; updated 2016
J
Howard Jones
Solo Two, 1966
Meredith Malone
August 2009; updated 2016
Joseph Jones
Landscape, 1932
Bryna Campbell
February 2008; updated 2016
K
Paul Klee
Zeichensammlung Südlich (Collection of Southern Signs), 1924
Sarah McGavran
April 2012
Barbara Kruger
Untitled, 1989–90
Bradley Bailey
November 2010; updated 2016
L
Fernand Léger
Les belles cyclistes (The Women Cyclists), 1944
Meredith Malone
July 2011; updated 2016
Franz Seraph von Lenbach
Portrait of Prince Otto von Bismarck, 1884–90
James van Dyke
March 2014; revised 2016
Lucebert
The Menaced House, 1962
Meredith Malone
January 2007
M
Fumihiko Maki
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum building, 2006
Eric Mumford
November 2011; updated 2016
Henri Matisse
Nature morte aux oranges (II) [Still Life with Oranges (II)], c. 1899
John Klein
April 2011; updated 2016
Allan McCollum
Pam Beale, 1971
Meredith Malone
August 2010; updated 2016
Ludwig Meidner
Selbstbildnis (Self-Portrait), 1971
Anne Popiel
January 2008; updated 2016
Robert Motherwell
Interior with Pink Nude, 1951
Karen K. Butler
January 2010; updated 2016
P
Jackson Pollock
Sleeping Effort, 1953
Angela Miller
March 2012; updated 2016
R
Odilon Redon
Une femme revêtue du soleil (A Woman Clothed in Sunshine), 1889
Orin Zahra
December 2015; revised 2016
Rembrandt van Rijn
The Three Crosses, 1660–61
Paul Crenshaw
October 2008; updated 2016
S
Allan Sekula
Volunteer’s Soup (Isla de Ons, 12/19/02), 2002–03
Svea Bräunert
September 2016
Lorna Simpson
Counting, 1991
Elissa Weichbrodt
February 2009
Pierre Soulages
Peinture 200 x 265 cm, 20 mai 1959 (Painting 200 x 265 cm, 20 May 1959), 1959
Karen K. Butler
May 2009; updated 2016
Raphael Soyer
Girl Standing Semi-nude, c. 1940
Bryna R. Campbell
December 2008
Selections from the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae, 16th century
Erin Sutherland
March 2020
Joseph Stella
Man in Elevated (Train), 1916
Michael Murawski
November 2008; updated 2016
T
Wolfgang Tillmans
Portrait series, 2001
Anna Warbelow
September 2009
U
Unknown (Native North American, Mississippian, Dunklin County, Missouri, Woodlands, United States)
Wulfing Repoussé Plaques, c. 1200–1400
Matthew H. Robb
March 2010; revised 2016
W
Carrie Mae Weems
Untitled (Colored People Grid), 2009–10
Allison Unruh
September 2016