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Grandma's art therapy reveals talent and struggle
Elizabeth Layton known as Grandma Layton, 71, creates contour drawings using a eye-only method, has a Midwest tour of her works, and has won a prize at Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Gallery. Therapist Ault and critic Lambert laud her genius while she credits art with lifting her from decades of grief and depression.
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Wellsville
Ean
Elizabeth
Midwest
Kansas City
Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art
Bob Ault
Menninger Clinic
Layton
Ottawa University
Paul Wright
Wright
Olathe
Glenn Layton
Pat
Mrs. Santa Claus
mid-America
Kansas
Missouri
Sod
New York
Washington, D.C
Lambert
Grandma Moses
Edvard Munch