The International Block Print Renaissance began in the last decades of the 19th century in Europe, as artists and collectors rediscovered the block print medium. Wichita played a major role in expanding this renaissance throughout America. In 1922, the newly assembled Wichita Art Association presented American Block Print Makers as one of its first exhibitions. […]

Art Deco is a wildly popular architecture and design movement from the 1920s and 1930s—the Roaring Twenties and Great Depression. The Wichita Art Museum will present an exhibition of 140+ iconic artworks—decorative arts, paintings, sculptures, and more—that epitomize this historical moment in American experience. This touring exhibition, co-organized by the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, […]

Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt (1878–1955) was a modernist of international reputation. With a spirit that sought new locations for new artistic inspiration, he lived in or near artist colonies in Provincetown in Massachusetts, Santa Fe in New Mexico, and New Hope in Pennsylvania. The first scholarly assessment in decades and retrospective of the artist is […]

Sun Patterns—Dark Canyon explores the art and career of the 20th-century American printmaker and painter Doel Reed (1894–1985). Best known today as a Southwestern artist and master of aquatint printmaking, Reed began his career in the Midwest and moved to Oklahoma in the 1920s. He served as an art professor at Oklahoma State University for […]

Sun Patterns—Dark Canyons explores the art and career of the 20th-century American printmaker and painter Doel Reed (1894–1985). Best known today as a Southwestern artist and master of aquatint printmaking, Reed began his career in the Midwest and moved to Oklahoma in the 1920s. He served as an art professor at Oklahoma State University for […]