Stephen Sheldon’s not an artist—he’s a professor of pediatrics and neurology at Northwestern. But a few years ago he joined his wife, Rebecca, on a series of studio tours as part of the Art Institute’s City Associates program. After a few visits he realized he was less interested in the artists’ work than he was in their tools, particularly their palettes.
The neurological implications of those movements fascinated him. “The image is in the brain first,” Sheldon explains. “The muscle memory exists in the artist, and it brings out the vision, and it’s particular to each artist.”
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