Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1978-
Found in 4 Records:
Elizabeth Szabronski-Carrie A. Hall quilt block research
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1578
Overview
This collection includes a cross-referenced index of Elizabeth Szabronski’s quilt block pattern collection and Carrie A. Hall’s collection of hand drawn quilt block patterns. These patterns correspond to completed quilt blocks in the Helen Spencer Museum of Art collection at the University of Kansas.
Dates:
approximately 1920s-1974
Helen Foresman Spencer papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 542
Overview
Helen Foresman Spencer was the wife of Kansas City industrialist Kenneth Aldred Spencer. Following her husband's death in 1960, Mrs. Spencer became president and director of the charitable foundation which they established in 1949. Under her direction until its dissolution in 1979, the Kenneth A. and Helen F. Spencer Foundation significantly expanded and enriched the cultural, scientific, and educational institutions of the Kansas City and Midwest region. The Helen Foresman Spencer papers...
Dates:
1904 - 1982
Personal papers of Marilyn Stokstad
Collection
Call Number: PP 470
Overview
Marilyn Stokstad joined the Art History faculty at the University of Kansas in 1958 and led the department in several roles before earning emerita status as the Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art History in 2002. This collection of her papers includes notes, chapters, proofs, and slides for the textbook Art History; family history, photographs, and news clippings; personal and professional correspondence; and reports, notes, awards,...
Dates:
1929 - 2020
Prairie Print Makers collection
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1375
Overview
Correspondence and related materials, mostly from H. Alfred Fowler of Kansas City, Mo. to J.J. Lankes, artist. Collection also includes some records and materials related to the Prairie Print Makers.
Dates:
1919 - 1943, 1947