Ulrich Museum

The Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art is a museum located on the campus of Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas.[1] The museum opened on December 7, 1974 in McKnight Art Center, where it is still located today.[2] It is best known for the large Venetian glass and marble mosaic by Joan Miró found on the facade of the building, titled Personnages Oiseaux, a 28-by-52-foot (8.5 by 15.8 m) mural on 80 panels.[3] It is also well known for the large Martin H. Bush[4] Outdoor Sculpture Collection of 80 works across 330 acres, which was named Top Ten among campus sculptures in 2006 by Public Art Review.[5] The sculpture collection includes works by Fernando Botero, Andy Goldsworthy, Lila Katzen, Joan Miró, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Otterness, Auguste Rodin, Sophia Vari, Elyn Zimmerman, and Francisco Zuniga. [6] The Outdoor Sculpture Collection is part of the museum's permanent collection, which contains approximately 6,500 objects. The full collection is searchable online through the Ulrich Museum Collection Portal. The museum's permanent collection includes works by Benny Andrews, Diane Arbus, Barkley Hendricks, Nan Goldin, Zhang Huan, Sol LeWitt, Joan Mitchell, Gordon Parks, Kara Walker, and Andy Warhol, among many others.[7] The collection also contains large groups of works by a number of artists, including Lee Adler, Minna Wright Citron, Gordon Parks, Marian Stephenson Patmore, and Harry Sternberg.