Real / Radical / Psychological: The Collection on Display
The largest selection of the Kemper Art Museum’s permanent collection ever shown, Real / Radical / Psychological: The Collection on Display celebrates the Museum’s first ten years in its Fumihiko Maki-designed building. As one of the oldest university museums in the nation, the Museum has been acquiring significant art of the time since 1881. This building-wide installation is arranged chronologically, offering a journey that starts at the dawn of the 19th century and continues through the history of modern and contemporary art. Featured are familiar favorites and works rarely seen, long-held artworks and recent acquisitions, including leading examples of avant-garde innovations in figurative, conceptual, and abstract art. Among the works on view in a variety of mediums are a number of paintings—such as works by Jackson Pollock and Thomas Eakins—that recently have been restored through a major conservation project.
The installation is divided into three galleries: “The Long Nineteenth Century,” “Modernism and the Twentieth Century,” and “Contemporary Moments.” Throughout each of the galleries, the leitmotifs real, radical, and psychological illuminate how these notions have guided artistic production over the years.
“The Long Nineteenth Century,” presented salon style, reflects the richness of the Museum’s collection of landscapes, genre painting, and portraiture, along with a rotating display from the vast collection of works on paper. From the time of the American and French revolutions of the late 18th century to the dawn of World War I in 1914, this period saw the Enlightenment-era stress on rationality give way to Romanticism, various forms of realism, and the rise of landscape as a newly independent genre.
“Modernism and the Twentieth Century” presents art from the early 20th century through the postwar years—a period that includes some of the collection’s most important works of European and American modernism. With the realities of modern progress and the brutality of two devastating world wars as their context, artists visualized the human condition through radical new forms of abstraction and semiabstraction, including Expressionism, Cubism, Constructivism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism.
“Contemporary Moments” features works by an international array of artists from the late 1960s on. From politically charged artworks that incorporate newly emerging art forms such as performance, language, photography, and video, to more recent works that address the impact of the digital age and the paradoxes of global mobility and virtual technologies, the variety of mediums and artistic practices in this section reflects the shift away from modernist paradigms toward a material and conceptual pluralism.
Support for the installation is provided by the William T. Kemper Foundation, Elissa and Paul Cahn, Nancy and Ken Kranzberg, the Hortense Lewin Art Fund, and members of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
Selected works
![2222.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2222.tif.jpg)
Benjamin West
The Submission of Prince John to Richard I
c. 1792–94![2109.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2109.tif.jpg)
Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña
The Smyrna Girls
1875![3178.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3178.tif.jpg)
William Merritt Chase
Garden of the Orphanage, Haarlem, Holland
1883![2707.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2707.tif.jpg)
Léon Lhermitte
La moisson (The Harvest)
1883![2119.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2119.tif.jpg)
Léon Lhermitte
Haying Scene
1891![2111.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2111.tif.jpg)
Julien Dupré
Milking Time
1888![2113.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2113.tif.jpg)
Julien Dupré
Au pâturage (In Pasture)
1882![2105.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2105.tif.jpg)
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
La charité (Charity)
1894![4335.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4335.tif.jpg)
Charles Ferdinand Wimar
The Abduction of Daniel Boone's Daughter by the Indians
1853![3411.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3411.tif.jpg)
Charles Ferdinand Wimar
The Buffalo Hunt
1860![2171.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2171.tif.jpg)
George Caleb Bingham
Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap
1851–52![4263.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4263.jpg)
George Landseer
Two Rajahs on Camels
19th century![2077.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2077.tif.jpg)
Adolf Schreyer
Arab Warriors
c. 1870s![2123.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2123.jpg)
Alexander Louis Leloir
The Kitten Seller of Tunis
1875![2102.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2102.tif.jpg)
Gustave Brion
Paysans des Vosges fuyant l'invasion de 1814 (Vosges Peasants Fleeing before the Invasion of 1814)
1867![2101.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2101.tif.jpg)
Jules Breton
Le lundi (Mondays)
1858![3726.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3726.tif.jpg)
Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat
Peasant Girl
1891![2930.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2930.tif.jpg)
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
¡Otra Margarita! (Another Marguerite!)
1892![3969.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3969.jpg)
Pablo Picasso
Les pauvres
1905![2084.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2084.tif.jpg)
Jozef Israëls
Mother and Children
19th century![2146.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2146.tif.jpg)
John Crome
Landscape
c. 1809![4450.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4450.jpg)
David Cox
Landscape with Hay Cart
1836![2178.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2178.tif.jpg)
Asher Brown Durand
A New England Landscape
1870![1987_4.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_1980_1989/1987_4.tif.jpg)
Thomas Cole
Aqueduct near Rome
1832![2103.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2103.jpg)
Alexandre Calame
Mountains
1849![2189.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2189.jpg)
George Inness
New England Village (Catskill Cove)
1866![2190.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2190.tif.jpg)
George Inness
Storm on the Delaware
1891![1998_02.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_1990_1999/1998_02.jpg)
George Inness
Landscape
1867![2175.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2175.tif.jpg)
Frederic Edwin Church
Twilight: Mount Desert Island, Maine
1865![2174.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2174.tif.jpg)
Frederic Edwin Church
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
1883![2194.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2194.tif.jpg)
John Frederick Kensett
Landscape
1848![4064.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4064.tif.jpg)
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Early October in the White Mountains
1860![2182.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2182.tif.jpg)
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Rheinstein
1872–74![2183.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2183.tif.jpg)
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Venetian Sails: A Study
1873![2209.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2209.tif.jpg)
Dwight William Tryon
Before Sunrise (Morning Twilight, at Daybreak)
1906–7![2138.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2138.tif.jpg)
Constant Troyon
Landscape with Cattle
19th century![4303.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4303.tif.jpg)
Théodore Rousseau
Landscape
c. 1830–67![4063.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4063.tif.jpg)
Eastman Johnson
The Cranberry Pickers (A Study)
1876![2112.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2112.tif.jpg)
Jules Dupré
The River
19th century![2110.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2110.tif.jpg)
Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña
Wood Interior
1867![2120.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2120.tif.jpg)
Charles Émile Jacque
Landscape with Sheep
19th century![2106.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2106.tif.jpg)
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Le chemin des vieux, Luzancy, Seine-et-Marne (The Path of the Old People)
1871–72![2107.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2107.tif.jpg)
Charles François Daubigny
Landscape (On the Oise River)
1877![2104.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2104.tif.jpg)
Jean Charles Cazin
Path on the Cliffs
19th century![2114.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2114.tif.jpg)
François Louis Français
Landscape
1886![2086.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2086.jpg)
Barend Cornelius Koekkoek
Zuyder Zee
19th century![2144.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2144.tif.jpg)
Martín Rico y Ortega
El Gran Canal, Venecia (Grand Canal, Venice)
c. 1874–1900![2225.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2225.tif.jpg)
Alexander Helwig Wyant
Landscape
19th century![2203.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2203.jpg)
William Trost Richards
Marine
1874![4264.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4264.tif.jpg)
Joseph Rusling Meeker
Landscape (Bayou)
1879![2224.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2224.tif.jpg)
Edmund Henry Wuerpel
An Evening Song
19th century![2699.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2699.tif.jpg)
John Henry Twachtman
House in Landscape
c. 1890![3822.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3822.tif.jpg)
Lyonel Feininger
Brücke I (Bridge I)
1913![3184.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3184.tif.jpg)
William Merritt Chase
Contemplation
1889![1978_1_1.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_1977_1979/1978_1_1.jpg)
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
Portrait of the Poet José Joaquín Herrero y Sánchez
1891![2152.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2152.tif.jpg)
George Romney
Portrait of the Honorable Francis North, 4th Earl of Guilford
1780![3959.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3959.jpg)
John Opie
Portrait of Lady King
c. 1800![2149.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2149.jpg)
William Owen
Portrait of a Lady in White
c. 1800![2156.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2156.tif.jpg)
Henry Raeburn
Portrait of Mrs. Craigie Halkett
n.d.![2157.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2157.tif.jpg)
Henry Raeburn
Portrait of General Sir David Dundas
1809![3961.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3961.tif.jpg)
Honoré Daumier
Le dessinateur (The Artist)
1853![579.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/579.tif.jpg)
Harriet Hosmer
Daphne
1854![2061.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2061.tif.jpg)
Harriet Hosmer
Portrait of Wayman Crow, Sr.
1866![2944.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2944.tif.jpg)
Thomas Eakins
Portrait of Professor W. D. Marks
1886![2177.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2177.tif.jpg)
Thomas Wilmer Dewing
Brocart de Venise (Venetian Brocade)
c. 1904–5![4296.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4296.tif.jpg)
George Wesley Bellows
Portrait of Geraldine Lee, No. 1
1914![3811.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3811.jpg)
Aelbert Cuyp
Landscape with Cattle and Milkmaid
c. 1650![4229.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4229.tif.jpg)
Philip James de Loutherbourg
Wooded Landscape with Gypsies, Donkey and Dogs
n.d.![3640.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3640.tif.jpg)
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
St. Joseph and the Sleeping Christ Child
c. 1668–75![2083.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2083.jpg)
Jacob G. Cuyp
Portrait of a Lady
c. 1640–50![2147.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2147.tif.jpg)
William Hogarth
Lord Grey and Lady Mary West as Children
c. 1740![2150.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2150.tif.jpg)
Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Mrs. Charles Ogilvie
1762![2151.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2151.tif.jpg)
Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Sir James Esdaile, Lord Mayor of London
1777![1994_11.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_1990_1999/1994_11.tif.jpg)
Étienne Carjat
Portrait of Pierre DuPont
c. 1870![2002_0007.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_2000_2009/2002_0007.tif.jpg)
Edouard Manet
Lola de Valence
1862–63![1986_18_3.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_1980_1989/1986_18_3.jpg)
James McNeill Whistler
Woman Reading By Lamplight
c. 1865![1986_18_4.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_1980_1989/1986_18_4.jpg)
Anders Zorn
Mrs. Nagel
1897![495.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/495.tif.jpg)
Benjamin West
Angel of the Resurrection
1801![2290.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2290.jpg)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Bullfight: Tauromachia 28
1815![2003_0002.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_2000_2009/2003_0002.jpg)
Théodore Géricault
Lara Blessé
1822![1986_24_27.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_1980_1989/1986_24_27.jpg)
John Martin
Moses and the Burning Bush
1833![2003_0015.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_2000_2009/2003_0015.tif.jpg)
Jean-François Millet
Le départ pour le travail (Going to Work)
1863![2010_0012.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_2010_2019/2010_0012.tif.jpg)
Giraudon's Artist
Untitled (Young Shepherdess Leaning on a Tree, with Two Sheep)
late 1870s![2010_0013.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_2010_2019/2010_0013.tif.jpg)
Giraudon's Artist
Untitled (Woman with Scythe)
late 1870s![1999_04.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_1990_1999/1999_04.tif.jpg)
Armand Séguin
Le soir (The Evening) or La glaneuse (The Gleaner)
1894![2010_0014.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_2010_2019/2010_0014.tif.jpg)
Charles Marville
Rue Saint-Victor de la rue du Cardinal Lemoine
1865–69![4190.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4190.jpg)
Francis R.A. Chantrey
Landscape
n.d.![1990_7.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_1990_1999/1990_7.jpg)
Charles Ferdinand Wimar
Citadel Butte
1859![2272.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/2272.jpg)
James McNeill Whistler
Thames No. 1
1896![2016_0006.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_2010_2019/2016_0006.jpg)
Alvin Langdon Coburn
The Singer Building, Twilight
1910![1294.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/1294.tif.jpg)
Joseph Pennell
Charing Cross Bridge at Night
1909![4158.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4158.tif.jpg)
Ludwig Meidner
Selbstbildnis (Self-Portrait) [recto] / Untitled, c. 1909 [verso]
1912Support
Support for the installation is provided by the William T. Kemper Foundation, Elissa and Paul Cahn, Nancy and Ken Kranzberg, the Hortense Lewin Art Fund, and members of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.