Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

Established in 1885, this museum was Kansas City's first cultural institution. At the core of the permanent collection is the Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, a gift of the Museum's donors R. Crosby Kemper and his wife Bebe Kemper, and the Kemper Foundations. The collection includes works by such artists as Jasper Johns, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, David Hockney, Robert Motherwell, Nancy Graves, Wayne Thiebaud, Grace Hartigan, William Wegman, Red Grooms, Georgia O'Keeffe, Christopher Brown, Willem de Kooning, and Robert Mapplethorpe.