Homeward to the Prairie I Come
Gordon Parks Photographs from the Beach Museum of Art
July 2 to November 21, 2026
Gordon Parks recognized his era's standards of beauty and human excellence and challenged existing biases with his career of artistic photography. Now, this collection of photos and writings by the iconic 20th century artist is coming to BYU.
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Gordon Parks, "Mrs. Jefferson," from the series "Fort Scott Revisited," 1950, printed in 2017, gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 inches, Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Gordon Parks and the Gordon Parks Foundation, 2017.373. Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation.
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"Muhammad Ali," from the series "The Redemption of the Champion," 1966, printed in 2017, gelatin silver print, 24 x 20 in. (1973 print size: 44 1/8 x 31 1/8 in.), Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Gordon Parks and the Gordon Parks Foundation, 2017.410
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"Pool Hall," from the series "Fort Scott Revisited," 1950, printed in 2017, gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 inches, Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Gordon Parks and the Gordon Parks Foundation, 2017.445
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"Parish Priest" (Father Placidus walks in a field of winter wheat with parishioner Louis Huss), from the series "The Monks of a Kansas Abbey Lead a Cloistered Life of Devotion," 1955, printed in 2017, gelatin silver print, 24 x 20 in. (1973 print size: 29 1/4 x 42 in.), Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Gordon Parks and the Gordon Parks Foundation, 2017.409
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"Uncle James Parks," from the series "Fort Scott Revisited," 1950, printed in 2017, gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches, Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Gordon Parks and the Gordon Parks Foundation, 2017.448
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“Homeward to the Prairie I Come:” Gordon Parks Photographs from the Beach Museum of Art is organized by the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University. Support provided by Art Bridges.
