An Architect Collects:
Robert D. Kleinschmidt and a Lifetime of Fine Arts Acquisitions

Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois

Reproduction of these images is forbidden without the express written permission
of Krannert Art Museum and the artist represented below.

Aiko
100 Tubes, 1967

Bronze box with bronze square tubes
4 1/2 x 4 x 4"
Acquired: 1967

Joseph Albers
Attic, 1966

Color print on paper
12 x 12"
Acquired: 1966


Concord, 1966

Color print on paper
12 x 12"
Acquired: 1966

Franco Albini & Franca Helg
San Lorenzo Bowls, 1971

Cob-like spiral hand-hammered silver
4 1/2 x 9 5/8"  diameter; 3 x 7 5/8" diameter; 1 1/2 x 4" diameter
Acquired: 1989

Pierre Alechinsky
Writing Book, 1989

Color print
8 3/4 x 7 3/4"
Acquired: 1989

Ben Benson
28th of Feb. 81, 1982

Mixed media on board
5 1/4 x 6"
Acquired: 1982


25th of March, 1982

Watercolor collage
8 x 5 1/2"
Acquired: 1982

Fletcher Benton
Rolling Disc, 1976

Steel frame
12 1/4 x 30 1/2 x 7"
Acquired: 1976


P, 1979

Maquete, 3-sided stainless steel in three finishes
15 x 20 x 15"
Acquired: 1979

Leon Berkowitz
Northern Lights, 1975

Oil on Canvas
84 x 60"
Acquired: 1975

Harry Bertoia
Tonal Piece, 1967

Bonze plate and rods
59 x 10 x 10"
Acquired: 1968

Marcelle Cahn
Untitled, 1983

Color print on paper, Christmas card
8 3/4 x 7"
Acquired: 1983

Genevieve Claisse
Scalaire, 1989

Gouache on paper
10 1/2 x 8 1/4"
Acquired: 1989

Carlos Cruz-Diez
Untitled, 1987

Silk screen
30 x 30"
Acquired: 1987

Dorothy Dehner
Nickel Drawing, 1946

Watercolor and charcoal on paper
4 3/4 x 5 3/4"
Acquired: 1977

Mark di Suvero
T'ang, 1977

Multiple five-piece torch cut steel sculpture 15/50
15 x 15 x 15", 5/8" thickness
Acquired: 1977

Maurice Ducret
To Bob K., 1988

Tempra on paper
11 1/2 x 16 3/4"
Acquired: 1988

Jack Dunbar
Amaryllis, 1990

Ebony pencil on paper
30 x 22 1/2"
Acquired: 1990


Dancing Figures on Blue Field, 2003

Oil on prepared paper
11 x 15"
Acquired:2003

Louise Fishman
Elk River Series 20, 2005

Watercolor monotype
17 x 15"
Acquired: 2006


Red, 2005

Carborundun acquatint 3/10
16 1/2 x 13 3/4"
Acquired: 2006

Sam Francis
Untitled, 1989

Etching 15/20
45 1/2 x 32 1/2"
Acquired: 1989

Helen Frankenthaler
Tiger's Eye, 1987

Aquatint, lithograph, etching, screen print 25/56
16 1/4 x 29"
Acquired: 1987

R. Buckminster Fuller
Single Cell Jitterbug, 1979

Aluminum dodecahedron
14 x 14 x 14"
Acquired: 1979

Karl Gerstner
Color Landscape, 1975

Study for mural for Ohio National bank, color ink on graph paper
11 3/4 x 16 1/2"
Acquired: 1975


Color Sound Series, 1975

Color paper construction collage
10 1/4 x 81/4"
Acquired: 1975

Alberto Giacometti
Feuilles Epaises, 1974

Etching 6/12, signed
8 1/4 x 6"
Acquired: 1974

Diego Giacometti
Ostrich and Ostrich Egg, c. 1977

Bronze sculpture
21 x 7 1/4 x 6 1/4"
Acquired: 1985


Ostrich and Ostrich Egg, c. 1977

Bronze sculpture
21 x 9 1/4 x 6 1/4"
Acquired: 1985

Diego & Alberto Giacometti
Sculpture, 1959

Bronze lamp base
60 x 8" diameter base
Acquired: 1976

Hedrich-Blessing
860-880 Lake Shore Drive, 1951

Silver gelatin print
8 x 10"
Acquired: 1989


Farnsworth house, 1951

Silver gelatin print
8 x 10"
Acquired: 1989


Crown Hall, Bill Engdahl, 1956

Silver gelatin print
8 x 10"
Acquired: 1989


Federal Building, 1964

Silver gelatin print
8 x 10"
Acquired: 1989


IIT Chapel, 1952

Silver gelatin print
8 x 10"
Acquired: 1989



Silver gelatin print
8 x 10"
Acquired: 1989

Richard Heipp
Dusenberg II - Auto, 1976

Study of painting for chairman's office, graphic drawing
18 x 16"
Acquired: 1976

August Herbin
Nu, 1960

Lithograph print
13 1/4 x 11 1/4"
Acquired: 1967

Tom Holland
KAI, 1987

Fiberglass wall relief with metal on wood base
13 1/2 x 11"
Acquired: 1988

Gottfried Honegger
Untitled, Christmas Card, 2006

Serigraph 266/400
10 3/16 x 8 1/4"
Acquired: 2007

Youri Jeltov
Composition Moscou Paris, 1992

Color print on paper
9 3/4 x 7 3/4"
Acquired: 1992

Jasper Johns
Lithograph, JJ77-841, 1978

Lithograph 41/60, signed
9 3/4 x 7 3/4"
Acquired: 1978


Numbers on Newspapers, 1977

Lithograph
9 1/2 x 9 1/2"
Acquired: 1977

Le Corbusier
Nature Morte, 1965

Tapestry (detail)
11 1/2 x 13 1/2"
Acquired: 1991

Julio Le Parc
Serie 15 Ni5, 1969

Color collage print 109/120
10 1/2 x 8"
Acquired: 1969

Sol LeWitt
Study for the Standard Club Dining Room Mural, 1988

Color India ink drawing
13 x 23"
Acquired: 1988

Brice Marden
Beyond Eagles Mere 2 (State), 2002

Somerset satin white paper
22 x 30"
Acquired: 2006

Constance McClure
Cloud Drawing, 1976

Pencil on canvas, study of painting for board room
24 x 18"
Acquired: 1976

John McCracken
Mandula, c. 1972

Screen print in colors
70 1/4 x 34"
Acquired: 2005

Joan Miro

Book of prints, one sined 46/175
10 x 10 1/4"
Acquired: 1980 

Joan Mitchell
Little Weeds II, 1992

Triptych three color etching 29/30
9 1/4 x 6 3/4" each
Acquired: 1992

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Konstructionen Portfolio, 1923

Lithographs
23 1/2 x 17 1/2"
Acquired:1991

Richard Mortenson
Melleurs Voex, 1997

Print 306/500
8 1/4 x 10 1/4"
Acquired: 1997

Robert Motherwell
Dance One, 1979

Print 9/30
10 1/4 x 24"
Acquired: 1979


Wave, 1989

Lithograph
45 x 60"
Acquired:1979


Bastos, 1977

Lithograph
62 1/2 x 40"
Acquired: 1977

Robert Natkin
Untitled, 1986

Acrylic on canvas
71 x 70"
Acquired: 1986

Aurelie Nemours
Untitled, 1969

Guache on paper, Christmas card
10 1/4 x 8 1/4"
Acquired: 1980

Robert Nickle
Untitled, 1978

Collage with artist photo under glass on reverse
8 x 9"
Acquired: 1978

John Pearson
Elliptical Images '97, 1997

Print 12/40
8 1/4 x 5 3/4"
Acquired: 1997


Elliptical Images '98, 1998

Print 58/150
8 1/4 x 5 1/2"
Acquired: 1998


Study for Ohio National Bank, 1976

Painted Panels
14 1/2 x 109 1/4"
Acquired: 1976

Charles Perry
Sculpture

Mirror polished bronze
2 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 2 1/2"
Acquired: 1973

Richard Pettibone
Frank Stella "Hatra II," 1969

Acrylic on canvas
6 1/4 x 12"
Acquired: 1969

Pablo Picasso
Untitled, 1956

white, unglazed ceramic plate
10 1/2 diameter x 1 1/4

Arnaldo Pomodoro
Untitled, 1973

Lithograph on silkscreen
16 1/2 x 30 1/2


Inverted Pyramid, 1974

Bronze sculpture 5/6
5 3/4 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2

George Rickey
Weathervane, 1976

Orbital finish stainless steel
22 1/2 x 26 x 5

(P/K Partnership)

Peter Sedgley
Blue Ring on Red, 1968

Print on board
19 3/4 x 19 3/4

Alan Shields
1980, 1979

Color print on paper
14 1/4 x 13 3/4

Victor Skrebneski
Portrait of RDK, 1991

Photograph
20 x 16

Francisco Sobrino
Plexiglas Column, 1966-1968

Plexiglas sculpture
32 x 5

Frank Stella
Chocorua Eccentric Polygons, 1974, 2005

Lithograph
15 1/4 x 16


Vortex Engravings, 2002

David Mirvish Designs limited edition, fine bone China plates
1 1/2 x 12 diameter

(P/K Partnership)

Donald Sultan
Black Flowers, 1999

Woodcut
27 1/2 x 35 1/2


Black Lemons, 1984

Aquatint
66 x 52

Gene Summers
Untitled, 1990

Bronze sculpture - candlestick
21 1/2 x 5 1/4" diameter base


Untitled, 1990

Bronze sculpture - candlestick
11 3/4 x 2 3/4" diameter base


Untitled, 1990

Bronze sculpture - candlestick
22 x 5" diameter base


Untitled, 1990

Bronze sculpture - candlestick
15 x 4 1/4" diameter base


Untitled, 1990

Bronze sculpture - candlestick
21 3/4 x 5 3/4" diameter base


Apricot #176, 1998

Small wood bowl
3 x 3 1/2" diameter


Padauk #181, 1998

Small wood bowl
2 x 4 3/4" diameter


Peroba rosa #180, 1998

Small wood bowl
2 3/4 x 5 1/2


European walnut #186, 1998

Small wood bowl
3 1/2 x 5 3/4" diameter


Gabon ebony #185, 1998

Small wood bowl
2 x 5" diameter


"For Mies" Mahogany, 1998

Large wood bowl
6 x 12" diameter


Redwood, 1999

Large wood pedestal bowl
6 x 11 1/4" diameter


Objects, 1998

Macassar ebony
Pepper mill: cylinder 6 x 1 1/2; Salt cellar: bowl 2 3/4 x 2

Angelo Testa
Yellow White, 1957

Oil on cardboard
22 3/4 x 20 1/4


Black, Yellow, White, 1957

Oil on cardboard
22 3/4 x 20 1/4


White, Yellow, Black, 1957

Oil on cardboard
22 3/4 x 20 1/4

Mark Tobey
Untitled, 1964

Watercolor and ink on paper with acrylic
6 1/4 x 5 3/4

Unknown Artist
Mumuye Yoke or Shoulder Mask (Sukwava), from Nigeria, c. 1930

Wood
42 x 12 x 10"
Acquired: 2004

Unknown Artist
American Indian Basket, 19th Century

Woven reed
12 3/4 x 7 1/2

Unknown Artist
African Stick Figure, 19th Century

Forged steel
24 x 3 x 3"

Unknown Artist
Untitled, 1200 CE

Clay bowl, interior geometric design with Anasazi motif
4 3/4 x 9 1/4 diameter

Unknown Artist
Chinese Antique Horse, 1200 CE

Han dynasty terra cotta sculpture
10 x 12 x 4 1/2

Unknown Artist
Vessel, 12th Century

Peruvian geometric designs and animal figures
11 1/2 x 4 1/4 diameter

Unknown Artist
Tantric Art, 19th Century

Urine stain painting on paper
7 x 6" each

Unknown Artist
Object Jade Bowl, n.d.

Jade with wood base
4 x 6 diameter

Unknown Artist

Porcelain fruit bowl blue/white glaze
5 3/4 x 6 1/4" diameter

Unknown Artist
Untitled, n.d.

Chinese rice cooker, copper
9 x 5" diameter

Victor Vasarely
Green and Blue, 1966

195 / 275
26 x 26

Venini
Two Candlesticks, 1950

Green handblown glass
5 x 17


Plate, 1960

Handblown Venetian glass
1 1/2 x 14 diameter


Vase, Decanter, 1960

Handblown Venetian glass
11 x 5 1/2 diameter

Ulfert Wilke
Viking Ship, 1985

Water color and ink drawing
11 x 14 3/4"


Blue and Black, 1968

Watercolor and ink calligraphy
24 x 19"


Papaya Hawaii - Kauai Series, 1978

Watercolor and ink
27 7/8 x 19 7/8


Red and Black Calligraphy, 1972

Serigraph on parchment
30 x 22 1/4


Red and White Ryoanji #14, 1963

Acrylic on canvas
84 x 60


Think of the Color of the Sparrow #4, 1975

Oil on canvas
84 x 60


Powers of Ten, 1977

Lithograph
28 1/2 x 20


Blue Numbers, 1972

Ink on paper
26 x 20


Untitled Caligraphic Composition, 1978

Acrylic on canvas
71 x 67 1/2 x 2