75 Years of American Art Books and Lambertville

and Lambertville

Elizabeth Stubblefield Navas embarked on a remarkable journey to fulfill the bequest of her employer

The Fauves and Henri Matisse are evident in his palette

Title: Nature’s Bounty

William Merritt Chase

75 Years of American Art Books and LambertvilleThe vision of one strong woman and the dedication of another brought some of the most important American art of the early twentieth century to the center of the nation, where art joined Wichita's airplanes, agriculture, and oil in shaping the consciousness of the midcontinent. Beginning in the 1930s, Elizabeth Stubblefield Navas embarked on a remarkable journey to fulfill the bequest of her employer, Louise Caldwell Murdock, to build an outstanding