Spencer Museum of Art The University of Kansas
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The Classroom Collection

An outreach program for Lawrence-area schools
detail: Yuk by Elizabeth Layton Elizabeth Layton 1909-1993
Kansas, United States
Yuk
colored pencil drawing

Scanning Questions:

  1. Are the colors mostly pale and soft or bright and intense?
  2. Besides wiggly lines, describe three different kinds if lines that you see.
  3. Found two examples of repeated lines.
  4. Where does your eye go first? Why does it go there?
  5. What objects frame or surround the woman in the center of the drawing?
  6. What did the artist use to make this picture?
  7. How would you describe the expression on the woman’s face?
  8. Besides her facial expression, what shows you how she feels?
  9. Why is this picture called Yuk?
  10. Related objects in the classroom collection:
    detail: Laura Ingalls Wilder by Tom Allen   detail: Boxers by Rick Dishinger   detail: Oriental Masterprint by Roger Shimomura