in the permanent collection at the Getty Center

Pop-up books from the library's Special Collections. To find out more about this collection, call the Topeka Room at 785-580-4510.

Hammer Museum New Gallery and Lobby Openings

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Hammer Museum New Gallery and Lobby Openings

Hammer Museum New Gallery and Lobby Openings

Installation view facing east

Installation view

Dr. Amaki and Dean Olin prepare the way for Mr. Jones.

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88/150: The First Public Inauguration of a Governor in Kansas, January 13, 1879 – The Statehouse in Topeka [From a Sketch by Henry Worrall]

Hammer Museum New Gallery and Lobby Openings

Hammer Museum New Gallery and Lobby Openings

Hammer Museum New Gallery and Lobby Openings

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

Hammer Museum New Gallery and Lobby Openings

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Amy LeePard

Alabama

Linsey-Woolsey (2008)

Handmade linen and wool paper,

etching, linen thread

Edition of 2

I love handmade paper and this paper is especially interesting to me. Amy has taken a plant-based fiber (linen from the flax plant) and an animal-based fiber (wool) and processed them together to create paper. This “linsey-woolsey” paper is not just beautiful, it also has a wonderful texture. The paper really embodies the message of the text.

–Brea Black

Installation view

Gallery "storefront"

Hammer Museum New Gallery and Lobby Openings

Pewter installation view

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90/150: Paul Worley, Governor’s Mansion, 1887 , 1960s. The second floor fireplace is now in the Topeka Room. Worley was a self-taught artist. Gift of Arthur M. Mills and Patricia L. Mills, watercolor, 2004.21.1

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148/150: Jack Wright, Lidded Jar, stoneware, no date. Wright taught ceramics at Washburn University, and is one of the more influential potters in the region. He specialized in utilitarian pottery, usually working on the wheel. Gift of John L. and Helen L. Petterson 2005.3.5

146/150: Jim Bass, Seated Woman, nickel alloy bronze 93.14

Installation view

Hammer Museum New Gallery and Lobby Openings

Gallery Director, Sherry Best, at a volunteer and docent orientation.

IN BACKGROUND: Walter Hatke / Schenectady NY, Teachers (1982-2002) Oil on canvas, Gift of the Library Foundation, 2009.15

Ron Michael

Lindsborg KS

Soil Mysteries (The Feedbag Piece)

(ca. 2005)

Stoneware, tar

Friends of the Library Purchase Award

Topeka Competition 27

2005.16

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62/150: Marshall Band horn

Installation view

Installation view

1. Carp serving dish

ca. 20th century

Pewter, glass, brass

97.40.67

Fish are a symbol of abundance and wealth. A pair of carp symbolize love, domestic felicity, partnership, tenacity, fertility, and renewal.

Hammer Museum New Gallery and Lobby Openings

90/150: Paul Worley, Governor’s Mansion, 1887 , 1960s. The second floor fireplace is now in the Topeka Room. Worley was a self-taught artist. Gift of Arthur M. Mills and Patricia L. Mills, watercolor, 2004.21.1

View of Territorial Kansas section. Here we arranged the walls to imitate the footprint of the Topeka founders' first cabin (12 x 14 feet).

Hammer Museum New Gallery and Lobby Openings

Hammer Museum New Gallery and Lobby Openings

Hammer Museum New Gallery and Lobby Openings

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Robert B. Green

USA

untitled / KU Stadium (1961)

Pen, ink and ink wash

Gift of Bernard O. Stone

2005.2.4

I like the continuous lines that form subtle images within the images. I like how things are implied but still leave the viewer to fill in the detail.

–Bob Heintzelman, Gallery volunteer

soil mysteries (the feedbag piece) / 2005

ron michael (lindsborg KS)

stoneware & tar

friends of the library purchase award

topeka competition 27

2005.16

soil mysteries (the feedbag piece) / 2005

ron michael (lindsborg KS)

stoneware and tar

friends of the library purchase award

topeka competition 27

2005.16

Stool in the form of a leopard. Ghana. Wood. Gift of Dr. Cotter and Jeanne Hirschberg.