Spaces Artist's 'Wonder House' Amazes Gifted, Formally Trained Mary Nohl Made Home Her Canvas

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Once there was an artist who lived by the lake. Her home was her canvas. She covered every surface - walls, floors, windows, doors, furniture, kitchen cabinets, even coat hangers - with her creations: joyful paintings, enigmatic wood sculptures, luminous stained glass and mosaics, whimsical mobiles, sensuous pottery.

In her yard, among tall pines, a sculpture garden grew: a huge, stylized dog baring its fangs; a head with a spiky, Lisa Simpson hairdo, perching on a gate post; a round, Henry Moore-ish mother cradling a litter of babies; haunting, elongated faces of concrete and stone.

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Spaces Artist's 'Wonder House' Amazes Gifted, Formally Trained Mary Nohl Made Home Her Canvas

This is the magical world of Mary Nohl, a Milwaukee-born visionary (1914-2001) who shunned the art establishment ("What I do, I do just for me," she told me in a 1996 interview) but who is posthumously earning nation...

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