The Tincture of Place
In a round-about way, it was one of the great artists of the early Italian Renaissance, Piero della Francesca (d. 1492), who first beckoned Ronald Christ, Wichita State professor of painting and drawing, to the International School of Art in Umbria, Italy.
Prairie Earth
Two hundred years ago, your eyes would have swept across a different landscape — a vista of grand distance, of gently undulating horizon and, except for the brilliant bursts of spring and fall wildflowers, muted colors. No cattle, but the shaggy bulk of lumbering bison.
Black & White
Businessman and former Shocker basketball great Cleo Littleton remembers the best of times — and the worst of times.
