Benton, whose house and studio, preserved as they were at the time of his death, are only a few miles from where I'm sitting, also composed a few separate black-and-white Mississippi-themed illustrations, as did many of his students at the Kansas City Art Institute in '40s. It is sometimes difficult, without close examination, to tell which of these were done by his students, many who imitated his "undulating line" style. Martin Zehr Kansas City, Missouri