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Three artists (Mary Huntoon, Avis Chitwood, Fern Cooper) sketching

Mary Huntoon: Artist & Art Therapist

Backyard Bash Understories

Backyard Bash: Understories

Landscape with Four Trees by Birger Sandzén

20/21

A Chat by the Fireside by Jean-Léon Gérôme

Empire of Things

detail of La Pia de' Tolomei, 1868–1880 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Forms of Thought

Dylan Mortimer, "The Ceiling Can't Hold Us," 2018

Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body

Black and white still from the video installation showing a ghostly woman floating above a man reclining on a couch, both surrounded by abstract, organic shapes.

The Aorta of an Archivist

detail: Eagle Hat by Preston Singletary

The Object Speaks

<a href='http://collection.spencerart.ku.edu/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=21603&viewType=detailView' target='_blank'><i>Morning in the Adirondacks</i> by Sanford Robinson Gifford</a>

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