Mary Bowron (Maryland)

Bowl, 2000

Stoneware, wood-fired

Anonymous gift, 2003.2.123

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22/150: Henry Worrall, Exodusters in Topeka: engravings of the Barracks, Harper’s Weekly, July 5, 1879

Avis Chitwood | Topeka, KS

Untitled pitcher (1913)

Hand-painted porcelain

Gift of Janice Gartrell for Avis Chitwood, 2009.014.18

Potter

Ghana

Photo by Laura Dalrymple

Warren Frederick (Warrenton, VA)

Vase, 1999

Stoneware, wood-fired

Anonymous gift, 2003.2.51

Cooking

Sierra Leone

Photo courtesy of Tim and Jett Elmer

Nature

Karen Estelle Koblitz

Bucket of Fish, 1981

Earthenware

Topeka Craft Exhibition 6 Purchase Award, 1982.7

DETAIL

Jo Ellen Trilling

New York NY

Cinderella (2006)

Soft sculpture and handmade book

Gift of the Swogger Foundation

2006.28

The artist made this doll by hand, and rewrote the story of Cinderella using these animals as characters. The cat is Cinderella and the mouse is the fairy godmother. The characteristics of the animals remain in the characters—the mouse casts a spell on Cinderella to make her knit so Cinderella can’t eat her.

–Sherry Best

Wood ash panel

Smithsonian Institution NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY at 8th and F Street, NW, Washington DC on Sunday afternoon, 9 February 2014 by Elvert Barnes Photography

THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE Permanent Exhibition

Paul Peck Gallery

Visit NPG / THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE website at www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/struggle/index.html

Elvert Barnes FEBRUARY 2014 BLACK HISTORY MONTH Project

Hammer Museum New Gallery and Lobby Openings

A display outside the Topeka Room celebrating 100 years of the Elmhurst Neighborhood.

June 2009

INTERIOR DETAIL

11/150: William H. Bratton discharge, 1883 Bratton was a northeast soldier, the great-great grandfather of Phillip Menninger. Inside the case are campaign and reunion buttons. Gift of the Menninger Foundation 2003.27.35

Paul Jenkins

Untitled, 1975

Lithograph

Gift of Harry N. Abrams, 1975.008

Moccasins, North America

Grass and cord, 20th c.

Gift of Annie B. Sweet

Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library Permanent Collection, S-7

Hammer Museum New Gallery and Lobby Openings

Hammer Museum New Gallery and Lobby Openings

Fahamu Pecou in a studio visit with grad student Raven Felice, 2009.

Part of the permanent exhibition "Six centuries of Swedish glass" at the Museum of Småland.

This little schnapps decanter caught my eye because of the shape and also the title, which reads "Fyllesvin" (which translates as "drunken swine").

Smithsonian Institution NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY at 8th and F Street, NW, Washington DC on Sunday afternoon, 9 February 2014 by Elvert Barnes Photography

THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE Permanent Exhibition

Paul Peck Gallery

Visit NPG / THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE website at www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/struggle/index.html

Elvert Barnes FEBRUARY 2014 BLACK HISTORY MONTH Project

Installation view

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Yen Pa-Lung

Sparrows

ca. 20th century

Ink, paper, silk, wood

97.40.412

DETAIL

25/150: The Boys’ Chronicle, 1903, Published by Boys’ Industrial School (BIS) which later became the Youth Center at Topeka (YCAT), which is still in operation today in north Topeka as a juvenile detention facility. The BIS taught boys trades, including printing.

Phelps Cunningham | Kansas

"Helleborus niger / Christmas rose" (c. 1930)

Woodblock engraving

Gift of Charles Marshall

1981.003.001

Cassava bead maker (top left). Ghana. Bead makers use molds with posts to make beads. This mold is for small red beads. On loan from Laura Dalrymple and Jim Harris.

Avis Chitwood | Topeka, KS

"Anemonies, Violets, Adder's Tongue, and Dutchman's Breeches"

No date

Screenprint

Gift of Janice Gartrell in memory of Avis Chitwood

2009.04.003

Hammer Museum New Gallery and Lobby Openings

Lauren Faulkenberry

The Heart Wants What it Wants, 2010

Bookcloth, Paper, Letterpress

TSCPL Permanent Collection, 2011.019

Exhibit view

Jon Kuhn | Winston-Salem, NC

Bottle (1981)

Glass

Gift of Dr. Cotter Hirschberg

1991.24.44

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Granary door. Mali, Dogon. 19th-20th century. Wood. Gift of Dr. Cotter and Jeanne Hirschberg.

Necklace. 19th century. Gift of Dr. Cotter and Jeanne Hirschberg. Necklace. Amulet and glass. 20th century. Made for export. On loan from Tim and Jett Elmer.

Hammer Museum New Gallery and Lobby Openings

Susan Collard

"Small Museum of Nature and Industry" (2010)

Mixed media

TSCPL Permanent Collection

Curator's Statement text panel

We have a large and diverse permanent art collection at the Library. This year we made the decision to turn the Hirschberg Gallery (the small entry space of the Sabatini Gallery) into a permanent collection space. That means more library art on display year-round. Our goal is to curate exhibits that will compliment our main exhibits, but they will be separate entities. You now get two shows instead of one!

Painter unknown (JP Limoges, maker)

France

Saucer and cup (c 1890-1932)

Porcelain

Gift of Esther and Bill Miller

2004.11

This Victorian rose-decorated cup and saucer would be a permanent fixture on the breakfast table at my mother’s place.

–Margaret McGillivary, Gallery Volunteer

Hammer Museum New Gallery and Lobby Openings

Part of the permanent exhibition "Six centuries of Swedish glass" at the Museum of Småland.

Deo from the Millenium Cafe shows off her handiwork

A display outside the Topeka Room celebrating 100 years of the Elmhurst Neighborhood.

June 2009

earned treasure / c. 1995

fox joy mcgrew (arizona)

stoneware

1996.43

60/150: Helen Hodge, The Heavens Declare the Glory, no date, oil on canvas

Wad effects panel

August Puig

"Litho #8" (1929)

LIthograph

TSCPL Permanent Collection; 63.481

Elizabeth “Grandma” Layton

Wellsville KS

Orchid I (20th century)

Color pencil

Gift of James Van Sickle

2005.34.9

Grandma Layton started drawing in her seventies. I’m impressed by the fluidity of her lines and how expressive they are. The drawing celebrates love, with the gesture of her and Glen holding hands, but also it’s a celebration of aging: these faces have earned their lines. Layton finds beauty in the wrinkles of their skin.

–Sherry Best