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La Femme et la Fleur: Feminine and Floral Imagery of the Art Nouveau

La Femme et la Fleur: Feminine and Floral Imagery of the Art Nouveau

S. Alan Shields, curator

White Gallery, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

The exhibition looks at the use of flowers and women as both the basis of beautiful, sensuous works of art and as illustrations of turn-of-the-century attitudes on society, gender, and modernity.

Exhibition images

Works of art

Elihu Vedder (1836–1923), The Pleiades

Gertrude Stanton Käsebier (1852–1934), untitled (bust of a female figure)

Pierre Roche (1855–1922), Iris

William Henry Bradley (1868–1962), Frontispiece for "The Chap-Book"

Maurice Dumont (1869–1899), Projet de programme pour Carmosine de Musset

Maurice Dumont (1869–1899), Leger relief pour une reliure (Light relief for a binding..)

Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939), poster for 8th Sokol Festival

George Henry Seeley (1880–1955), The Burning of Rome

Karl Kröner (1887–1972), Waldflechte (Forest Lichens)

Maurice Denis (1870–1943), Petit air, sonnet

Aristide Maillol (1861–1944), Ete [Summer], or Deux baigneuses nues sous un arbre au bord..[Two Nude Bathers under a Tree on Riverbank..]

Fernand Khnopff (1858–1921), Une Geste d'Offrande, Une Geste de Rescpect

William Nicholson (1872–1949), Sarah Bernhardt

Max Elskamp (1862–1931), Notre Dame des Horlogers

Max Elskamp (1862–1931), Notre Dame des Jardiners

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872–1898), The Peacock Skirt, plate V

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872–1898), The Dancers Reward, plate XIV

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872–1898), The Climax

Fidus (1868–1948), Study for Medusa [Studie zur Medusa]

William Henry Bradley (1868–1962), frontispiece for "When Hearts are Trumps"

Paul Elie Ranson (1864–1909), Jeune Femme à l’Eventail (Young Woman with a Fan)

Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904), Evocation de Kundry

Jan Toorop (1858–1928), De Zaaier (The Sower)

André-Edouard Marty (1882–1974); Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901); L'Estampe Originale, Paula Brébion

Henry van de Velde (1863–1957), Tropon - Eiweiss Nahrung (Tropon, Nourishment from Eggwhite)

Jonathan Scott Hartley (1845–1912), Whirlwind

Henri Jacobs (1864–1935), bust of a woman

Franz Rosse (1858–1900), Nude with Poppies

Giuseppe Renda (1862–1939), bust of a woman

Georges van der Straeten (1856–1928), bust of a woman

George Grant Elmslie (1869–1952); Louis Henry Sullivan (1856–1924), baluster from the Carson, Pirie, Scott building, Chicago

Elihu Vedder (1836–1923); Chelsea Tile Works, Soul of the Sunflower

Charles Walter Stetson (1858–1911), An Easter Offering

Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), Salamander vase

Elizabeth Neave (Lingenfelter) Lincoln (1876–1957); Rookwood Pottery (active 1880–1967), tulip vase

Hans Günther Reinstein; Philipp Rosenthal Porcelain Factory and Company AG (founded 1879); Mathildenhöhe Artists Colony (founded 1899), coffee pot with lid, Botticelli (Standing Heart pattern)

Paye and Baker Manufacturing Co. (active 1891–1920), butter knife

Whiting Silversmiths, "Whiting Lily" sauce ladle

Emanuel Villanis, Mother and Child; Genitrix

Leon Pescheret (1892–1971), Ste. Chapelle

Maurice Denis (1870–1943), La femme a l'aiguiere (The woman with an ewer)

Aristide Maillol (1861–1944), Tapisserie (Tapestry)

Odilon Redon (1840–1916), Le Passage D'un Âme (The Passage of a Soul)