The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art

February 19 - May 13, 2012

The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art: Works on Paper exhibition is one of the largest and most comprehensive traveling exhibitions ever organized featuring works on paper by African American artists from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.

The Tides of Provincetown

February 5 - April 29, 2012

The Tides of Provincetown: Pivotal Years in America's Oldest Continuous Art Colony (1899 - 2011)

Artists from Milton Avery to Hans Hofmann, Robert Motherwell and others found both inspiration and solace in the Provinctown, Massachusetts art colony. In 1916, the Boston Globe declared it the "Biggest Art Colony in the World".

A Couple of Ways of Doing Something

January 29, 2012 - April 15, 2012

A Couple of Ways of Doing Something evolved from the extraordinary daguerreotype portraits created by Chuck Close. Throughout a career of more than four decades, Chuck Close has consistently sought to test the limits of the media in which he has chosen to work, from painting and Polaroid photography to holograms and Japanese woodblock prints.  In the 1960s, Close was one of the earliest artists to use photography as the foundation of his painting and one of the most influential. He deveolped a gridded painting system based at first on gelatin-silver prints and dye transfers, then on 20-by-24-inch Polaroid images, which enabled him to scale up his portraits to colossal size.

American Quilts from the Permanent Collection

December 11, 2011 - February 4, 2012

This exhibition of six quilts from the Wichita Art Museum collection display a beautiful sense of repeating pattern and design. “Log Cabin” and “Drunkard’s Path” are the names of two of the quilts. Can you guess which two?

Venice

December 11, 2011 - February 4, 2012

This exhibition of six scenes from Venice present a view of a city known for its history, art and architecture. Scenes of St. Mark’s Basilica, Schiavoni Quai, the Grand Canal and Maurice Prendergast’s “Rainy Day, Venice” are quintessentially Venice.

The Lawrence Lithography Workshop

October 29, 2011 - January 29, 2012

The intention of the Lawrence Lithography Workshop is to produce fine art prints of high aesthetic and technical quality. This exhibition will focus on the Workshop’s print series, or portfolios, which allow contemporary artists to explore a continuous theme through lithography.

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.

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.

Steuben Glass from the Wichita Art Museum Collection

Ongoing Exhibition

The Wichita Art Museum presents a growing collection of glass that focuses on Steuben.

Make it POP!

Ongoing Exhibition

Learn about Pop Art through displays and fun activities like the Pop puzzle wall, coloring craft, and the Warhol portrait station.  This exhibition is sponsored by Commerce Bank.

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.

contact: Crystal Walter
pr@wichitaartmuseum.org