Morning in the Flint Hills, John Noble

Exhibition Label: "This Land," Mar-2014, Kate Meyer Noble, or “Wichita Bill,” once drove cattle from Texas to Kansas on the Chisholm Trail. He was known by the 1920s for his five-gallon Stetson hat and reputation as a cosmopolitan painter, by now residing in New York and Provincetown. Noble’s post-impressionist style reflects his artistic training in Cincinnati, Paris, and Brussels, but recollections of Kansas prairies “forever in his heart” inspired this evocation of the undulating slopes of the Flint Hills.