There’s a small house perched on the crest of a hill in “Mind’s House II,” a watercolor by the Arkansas artist who called himself Kuimeaux, though he entered the world as Dwight Wilson Drennan in Little Rock in 1950. At first glance, the painting can’t help but summon echoes of Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World” — that instantly recognizable American gothic daydream with its pale farmhouse and stretched horizon. But if Wyeth’s picture makes you think of stories withheld or tragedies glimpsed sidelong, Kuimeaux’s feels more like the dream you wake from reluctantly, wishing you could slip back inside. ...
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