enlarge 46KB, 576x432 73 Old Sedgwick County Court House - Elaine Myers RaderEdit Rendered in pencil by Rader. Her art degree is from Lindenwood College-graduate work at Chicago Art Institute. Europe in 1928 with Lorada Taft, plus work with Birger Sandzen, Chas, Seward, then at WSU, Europe 1965, and a U.S. exhibition. Her work is privately owned in eight states. The building, located between Main & Market at Central, was erected in 1888 at a cost of $250,000. It is constructed of hand blocked limestone from a quarry in Butler County. Its halls are marble lined.Edit
enlarge 29KB, 576x432 74 Jesse Chisholm - Kean TilfordEdit Chisholm, the famous Cherokee-Scottish trader, trailblazer, interpreter, and peacemaker is offered by Tilford. A painter for many years who has replaced business with art. Kean studied at KU, WSU,the Art Association, and Art Museum, was president of the Artist Guild and chairman of the Wichita's First 50 Years. Artists whom formed the group known as the "Prairie Print Makers". The original oil of Chisholm inspired for whom the Chisholm Creek and Chisholm Trail were named. In 1968 Jesse Chisholm Centennial was celebrated by the Tri-State Commission of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.Edit
enlarge 31KB, 576x432 75 The Munger House - Alvin PearsonEdit Pearson, portrait and landscape painter. The Munger House was built by D.S. Munger in 1868 on the Little Arkansa River. The cottonwood logs were cut and hewn on a nearby wooded island. For the walls, Munger burned his own lime and put buffalo hair in the plaster. He used small willows growing along the river for lath, hand made roof shingles and hauled windows and flooring from Emporia KS. This first home built in Wichita served as post office, pioneer hospital and hotel. It is now in Wichita's Cowtown, where it is a pricipal attraction.Edit
enlarge 47KB, 576x432 76 Steam Threshing - David BernardEdit Etching by Bernard, was professor of art and director of printmaking at WSU. Holds a BFA from University of Illinois and MFA from the University of Iowa. He has exhibited in major national and regional shows and is represented in twenty-six print collections indluding the Library of Congress, the Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, the Wichita Art Association,Otis Art Institute of LA County. Steam threshers are collectors items now, and can be seen at special competitions.Edit
enlarge 38KB, 576x432 77 Grazing Buffalo - Sally BrahtEdit Braht-Holds a Bachelor or Art degree from the University of Arkansas. She first worked as an advertising artist. She has free lanced, has painted numberous murals, and has had several exhibitions of her water-colors. She is past president of the Wichita Art Museum Members. The subject of grazing buffalo was chosen because they are the larges and most spectacular cratures of the very grasslands out of which Wichita grew. Our first settler, the buffalo, was the staple food of the plains Indians.Edit
enlarge 35KB, 576x432 79 Loading Yards - William DickersonEdit Dickerson, Director of the School of the Wichita Art Association. He finds beauty in Mid-West settings in which shapes, colors, and lines are organized into a well ordered painting. His work is exhibited from the Metropolitan in New York to the Palace of the Legion of honor in San Francisco, plus important public and private collections. Honors, first prize in the 1968 Kansas Artists Annual and making two hundred lithographs as the 1969 gift print for the Kansa Federation of Art. Cattle and grain: basic to Wichita. Signed in pencil.Edit
enlarge 43KB, 576x432 80 Early Oil Well - Charles H. SandersonEdit Sanderson, well-known Kansas watercolorist, head of the Art Department at Wichita High School South and instructor at the Wichita Art Association, Friends, University, and the WAAM Mobil Art Gallery. A prolific painter, he maintains a busy schedule of exhibiting in juried, invitaional and one-man shows, plus permanent and private collections through-out the nation. In this ink drawing the discovery of oil and the timeless motions of nature combine to show the natural richness that surronds Wichita.Edit
enlarge 27KB, 576x432 81 The First Wichitans - Robert M KiskaddenEdit This print (signed in pencil) from a pen and wash by Robert M. Kiskadden, Professor of Art - drawing and painting - at WSU. His BFA came from KU and Masters from Ohio Wesleyan. He works in all media and is concerned with a feeling for the land, water, and sky backed by a philosophy of expressionism. Represented in museums and private collections. Works acquired by : Fort Hays State College, Eastern Michigan U, University of Texas, and KSU. Listed in Who's Who in American Art. The indian rider and pony are part of a series. KiskaddenEdit "Hi, my name is Melissa Crafton, I ca..." View Comments...
enlarge 30KB, 456x576 83 Old Southern Hotel - Eleanor Brown StaleyEdit Staley, a graduate of WSU, studied at Gloucester, Mass., under Clayton Staples, then under Louis Krupp of Palm Springs and Jay Datus of Phoenix. The Southern Hotel-a landmark, once the leading hotel of Wichita, now stand in Wichita's historic Cow Town. Its simple, functional architecture is typical of the frontier buildings.Edit
enlarge 35KB, 576x435 85 Riverside Boathouse - Paula SmithEdit Smith, watercolorist, has a BA in Art History from Barnard College, has studied in Europe, at the University of Wisconsin, privately at the University of Kentucky, and the Wichita Art Association. Her work can be seen locally at the Wichita Art Museum. The boathouse opened in July 1898, at Murdock and the Little River providing recreation for nearly seven decades. It is fondly remembered by the many who used its facilities, razed in 1967 as part of an Urban Renewal project for the Little Arkansas river area.Edit
