Franklin D. Murphy
Lecture Series
The Murphy Lecture Series is sponsored by the Spencer Museum of Art, the Kress Foundation Department of Art History at the University of Kansas, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The lectureship was established in 1979 through the Kansas University Endowment Association in honor of former chancellor Dr. Franklin D. Murphy
Three Alternative Histories of Chinese Painting
by James Cahill
The Liturgy of Love: Images from the "Song of Songs" in the Art of Cimabue, Michelangelo, and Rembrandt
by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin and Irving Lavin
Mynah Birds and Flying Rocks: Word and Image in the Art of Yosa Buson
by John M. Rosenfield
The Body in Time: Figures of Femininity in Late Nineteenth-Century France
by Tamar Garb
Secrets of the Sacred: Empowering Buddhist Images in Clear, in Code, and in Cache
by Helmut Brinker