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We were fortunate recently to be able to visit the Longview Museum of Fine Arts while we were in Longview recently. The Longview Museum has a permanent collection of over 400 pieces of art work consisting of drawings, intaglio, painting, photographs, pottery, lithographs, seriographs, sculpture, woodblock and works-on-paper. Some of the artists with works in the LMFA are Artrob Tadeusz Lapinky, Gavensky, Louis de May, Sister Corita Kent, Derek Bosher, and Charles Umlauf. The artist, Charles Shaw, has 33 works in their Jack Strong Collection.Among the featured works in the LMFA collection are "Ardath" by Ruth Tears, "Reclining Highway" by Hiram D. Williams, "Summer Breeze" by Emily Guthrie Smith, "Summer Colors" by Herb Rogalla, "Fast Doubletake" by Bill Wiman, "Triangles" by Ruth Bernhard, "Genie de La Science, Observatoire, Nice, France" by Michael Kenna, "Organic" by DeForrest Judd and last but certainly not least, the Sculpture "Torso" by Charles Umlauf.Museum Hours are as follows:10-4 pm, Tuesday - FridayNoon to 4 pm, SaturdayClosed Sunday and MondayAdmission is free but a contribution is always welcome!