Medicine: Medical Surrealist

It was almost as grotesque as seeing the workings of your own stomach through a fluoroscope. Minneapolitans stared, fascinated, or smiled a little uneasily last week at Daisy Stilwell's pastels on view at the Walker Art Center. Some of them:

¶ A picture of a stomach sitting at ease in an armchair with beer and pretzels beside it while esophagus and duodenum stream off nonchalantly in all directions.

¶ A human liver garnished with onions.

¶ A picture (called Brainstorm) of a brain in a storm. (The brain forms the body of an ostrich...

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