Las Artes de Mexico

July 12, 2009 - September 6, 2009

The Gilcrease Museum, Oklahoma is touring this exhibition celebrating the rich and diverse artistic traditions of Mexico. Las Artes de Mexico examines over 3,500 years of art and culture, from the ancient worlds of the Mayans and Aztecs to the 20th Century works of Miguel Covarrubias and Diego Rivera. Las Artes de Mexico examines over three millennia of tradition and change across the broad spectrum of Mexican life.

Images of Women from the Collection of the Wichita Art Museum

June 28, 2009 - October 18, 2009

Images of Women reflects the breadth of roles women have occupied--or been assigned--in American society and culture, as well as the myriad ways in which artists have represented--and reinforced--those roles. Paintings of women in the Museum collection, reveal the many ways in which women have been depicted, interpreted, and fashioned by the artists--usually male--who paint them.

A Gift from Asia

May 17 - August 2, 2009

This exhibition focuses on three artists in the Wichita Art Museum collection who painted in watercolor. Dong Kingman, Fay Chong and Martin Fan Cheng are Asia-Americans who use traditional painting techniques for subjects as varied as landscapes to a shrimp market.

The Moods of Rain

April 19 - August 16, 2009

Artists have been inspired by the evocative qualities of rain for centuries. Rain has the capacity to suggest a range of moods from the promise of renewal after drought, to the melancholy of a grey day, to the cataclysm of flood. One of the treasures of the Roland P. Murdock collection is Maurice Prendergast's watercolor Rainy Day, Venice of 1899.

Elevations: Exploring the Architectural Beauty of Grain Elevators

February 8 - July 19, 2009

Larry G. Blackwood was born in Ellsworth, Kansas and now lives in Bozeman, Montana. A self-taught photographer, he pursues images of farming icons such as grain elevators. This exhibition of black and white photographs show elevators in a variety of weather conditions. He likes their abstract shapes and varied textures and focuses on architectural details.

interACTIVE

Ongoing Exhibition

InterACTIVE is an exhibition that provides space for children and families to view kinetic art and engage in creative expression. The Wichita artists: Christopher Gulick, Tom McGuire and Lee Shiney have created sculptures that move, generate lights, moving images and sounds.

Heritage of the West: A Romance Gone Forever: The M.C. Naftzger Collection of Paintings, Sculptures and Drawings by Charles M. Russell

Ongoing Exhibition

Experience the turbulent and thrilling themes of everyday life during the settlement of the American West. This exhibit represents a cross section of Charles M. Russell’s stylistic development over a period of 30 years, from 1896 through 1926.

Across America: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Wichita Art Museum

Ongoing Exhibtion

Reopening September 30, 2007 and then ongoing. This installation features landscapes and scenes from rural America, urban America and the American Southwest. It unites some of the strongest works in the Museums collection and explores images created by American artists whose themes and styles reflected their regional as well as national influences.

Sculpture from the Wichita Art Museum Collection

Ongoing Exhibition

The Wichita Art Museum has a wide variety of sculpture which can be viewed on the grounds outside of the museum and in the Sam and Rie Bloomfield Gallery.

American Impressionist Paintings from the Collection of the Wichita Art Museum

Ongoing Exhibition

This exhibition brings together many of the stunning Impressionist paintings from the Museum’s collection including Mary Cassatt’s Mother and Child.

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print

July 30 - October 11, 2009

This exhibition organized by the Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington, D.C. presents a comprehensive sampling of Parrish's printed works, including book and magazine illustrations, as well as commercial prints designed for advertising. Maxfield Parrish was one of the early 20th century's most popular and well-known artists who undertook hundreds of commissions for book illustrations, magazine covers, advertisements and lithographs that reveal both his sense of humor and his eye for graphic design.

The Wyeths: Three Generations

September 26, 2009 - January 10, 2010

This exhibition, from the Bank of America Collection, showcases three generations of artists from the same family: N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth and Jamie Wyeth. With more than sixty paintings and drawings the exhibition reveals themes and styles of each artist, as well as influences within the family.

contact: Crystal Walter
pr@wichitaartmuseum.org