PAST EXHIBITION

Sparks! The William T. Kemper Collecting Initiative

May 3, 2008—July 20, 2008

This exhibition celebrates the remarkable gift to the Museum from the William T. Kemper Foundation––Commerce Bank, Trustee, which sparked a vigorous expansion of the Museum’s modern and contemporary collection. The foundation in 1999 gave the Nelson-Atkins $1million each year for 10 years, which resulted in the acquisition of 32 works of art. The works represent a broad sampling of 20th- and 21st-century art, from Marcel Duchamp’s portable museum of his life’s work, Box in a Valise, to a stunning work of aluminum liquor-bottle tops, Dusasa I, by an artist working in Nigeria, El Anatsui.  

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