September 3, 2026–February 7, 2027
Trexler, Butz, and Goodman Galleries and Trexler Hall
Joseph Stella (1877–1946), Dance of Spring (Song of the Birds), 1924, oil on canvas, 42 3/8 x 32 3/8 in. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Gift of the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation, 2003.03.01. Generously lent by Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City as part of Art Bridges’ Partner Loan Network.
Explore more than 150 works of American art—and their connections to both local and global artistic communities—through our American galleries. This ongoing exhibition investigates how trade, colonization, and the migration of people and ideas have shaped our nation’s culture. Recent acquisitions, including contemporary art and works by African American, Latinx, Latin American, and Indigenous artists, play a key role in this narrative..
Tokie Rome-Taylor (American, b. 1977), Our Value > Cotton and Gold, 2020, archival pigment print, 40 x 28 in. The Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art. Copyright: The artist.
New works on view
The American galleries regularly change to feature new selections of works on paper and textiles. This latest installation will bring more than fifty new works into these galleries. Among the highlights are three modernist paintings on loan from the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, which illustrate American artists’ experimentation with abstraction in the early twentieth century. This installation also includes moving portraiture by contemporary photographer Tokie Rome-Taylor, on loan from the Petrucci Family Foundation, as well as two recently acquired sculptures by the late Easton-based sculptor Karl Stirner.
The next group of new works in the American Galleries will go on view February 25, 2027
The changing selection of works on view in the American galleries is supported through the generosity of the Amaranth Foundation/Joan Miller Moran, Trustee.