Linda Lighton: Love & War, A Fifty-Year Survey, 1975-2025 on view at the Nerman Museum, JCCC Campus through May 3rd, 2026.

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"A car plein air sketch on a chilly, windy afternoon (we’re under a red flag warning) of a beautiful house in the Historic Rockhill Neighborhood in Kansas City — adjacent to Kauffman Gardens and Volker Park, and within walking distance to the Nelson and Kemper museums. I love the eight identical, two-story stone houses on Pierce Street, built in 1907 by Kansas City Star publisher William Rockhill Nelson. The houses create a specific, idyllic residential setting.

I am so fond of these wee stone beauties and have sketched them many times. This one is at 536 Pierce Street, such a pretty setting. There are lots of tees along the narrow esplanade in front of the houses on this street, and today the Eastern redbuds are sprouting tiny, brand new, spring blooms — wee clusters of gorgeous, purple flowers." 

Judith Coe. 

Thanks, Judith.