Mid-America Fine Arts, established in 1971, and as the largest retail fine arts gallery in Kansas, has been encouraging Kansans to participate in their state’s rich and acclaimed history in the visual arts.
Kansas, a relatively small state in population, has nurtured artists whose achievements and renown have surpassed many states with larger populations.
 Five Kansas-born artists; John Noble, John Steuart Curry, Kenneth Adams, Henry Varnum Poor and Bruce Moore (in sculpture), have achieved the highest recognition in American Art, that of a National Academician, which is remarkable for a small state.
Kansas can also lay claim to many artists who spent a substantial part of their careers in Kansas, artists such as; Birger Sandzen, Clayton Henri Staples, Alfred Montgomery, Leonard Woodruff, Abraham Walkowitz, Karl Mattern and others who have achieved national recognition.
Drs. Les and Courtney Ruthven, co-owners of Mid-America Fine Arts exhibition hall, invite you to learn more about your Kansas artistic heritage and, perhaps, become a collector of Kansas and American Art.