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This collection of images documents works of art in KU¿s Spencer Museum of Art. With a permanent collection of more than 25,000 objects spanning much of world art history, the Spencer Museum of Art is one of the finest university art museums in the nation. Strengths include medieval art; European and American paintings, sculpture, and prints; Japanese Edo-period painting; 20th-century Chinese painting; photography; regional art; and more than 150 quilts. Sallie Casey Thayer, a Kansas City art collector, established the KU art collection in 1917.