A native of Wichita, painter Keith Jacobshagen spent childhood afternoons in his father’s airplane flying over the Kansas prairie. Jacobshagen says his lifelong fascination with the sky surely “goes back to early humans and having some sense that the sky is what allowed us to live, it brought rain, it brought warm sun.” The Expansive Sky serves as an intimate retrospective of Jacobshagen’s career, featuring recently-acquired works dating from the 1970s through 2021.

Image: Keith Jacobshagen, "Blue Sunday," 2020. Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 inches. Wichita Art Museum, Museum purchase, Burneta Adair Endowment Fund