Lost
Lost Paintings near KU Campanile, Lawrence
near the Campanile
Lost
listing
Posted
1 day
ago
Description
On Saturday at 3:10 PM, I realized my set of four small paintings vanished from my tote while I was walking along Massachusetts Street toward the Campanile on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence. I had paused to sketch the sunset by the Kansas River earlier in the afternoon, and I must have left them on a bench outside the Campanile steps. The paintings are framed in pale pine, two show prairie grasses, one a river scene, and the fourth a hillside town. They’re priceless to me, and I’m hoping someone who found them will bring them back to the campus information desk.
Approximate last-seen location
near the Campanile
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