Author: Alice Thorson
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Ling-en Lu: Sharing Untold Stories
As a child, she was an artistic prodigy, but Ling-en Lu did not end up following the artist’s path. Instead, she poured what she calls her “emotional attachment to art” into art history, a decision that led to her present post: associate curator of Chinese painting at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
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Collector’s Corner: Jack and Georgia Olsen
In late spring, Jack and Georgia Olsen invited members of the Print Society of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art to view the extensive art collection displayed in their Briarcliff home. The Olsens, longtime owners of the American Legacy Gallery in Brookside, are well-known for their expertise in Midwest and regional art, and their collection is a treasury of works by regionalist masters.
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Collectors Corner: Roberta and Elton Gumbel, Jr.
When Dr. Elton Gumbel died in 2006, he left behind hundreds of paintings and drawings. Many people knew Gumbel as an optometrist. He was the first black optometrist in Kansas City and the first licensed black optometrist in the state of Missouri. But he was also a prolific self-taught artist, who never had an exhibit or any other public exposure of his work.