Tempera paintings to photographs

Art museum comes up with a season of diverse exhibits

Here are the exhibitions included in the 25th anniversary season of the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art:

“Fish, Flower and Flying Things: Nature at the Spencer Museum,” through Sept. 1. The show includes representations of natural subjects, such as plants, mammals, fish, birds, insects, reptiles and amphibians, in various media by American, European and Asian artists from the 16th century to the present.

“Drawing Figures,” includes figure drawings by artists in Europe and the United States from the 16th century to the present, through Oct. 20.

“American Indian Art,” an exhibit in conjunction with the Lawrence Indian Arts Show, Sept. 7-Oct. 19.

“Milk and Eggs: The American Revival of Tempera Painting, 1930-1950,” including works by John Steuart Curry, Thomas Hart Benton and Andrew Wyeth, Sept. 21-Nov. 17.

A companion show, “N.C. Wyeth: Works from the Collection of the Brandywine River Museum,” runs the same dates.

“Photography from the Collection,” Oct. 27-Dec. 29.

“Wrapped Words: Handmade Books from Cuba’s Ediciones Vigia,” an exhibition of more than 50 handmade books and banners from Ediciones Vigia, a publishing cooperative in Mantanzas, Cuba, Nov. 2-Dec. 15.

“Innovation/Imagination: Fifty Years of Polaroid Photography,” including works by Ansel Adams, Robert Rauschenberg and others, Dec. 15-March 15.

“Spencer Museum of Art Celebrates 25 Years,” an exhibition of acquisitions made during the past 25 years that documents the history and growth of the Spencer Museum, spring.

“Defining Craft I: Collecting for the New Millennium,” features 175 works in glass, clay, metal, fiber and wood from such artists as KU alumnus Wendell Castle, Dale Chihuly and others, April 12-July 6.

“Influenced by Japan,” about 50 American and European works on paper and examples of Japanese color woodcut prints, that inspired many Western artists, spring.