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Emily Terhune Korson

Oil on panel 20" x 20" 
Omenn Sign

Oil Paintings
Dedicating (male)
Dedicating
(male)


Trampoline of Day and Night
Trampoline of
Day and Night


Larynx in situ
Larynx in situ

Oswego Historical Meeting Place
Oswego
Historical...


Ego voco occasus
Ego voco
occasus


Inguinal Canal
Inguinal Canal

Rachelian Sign Language
Rachelian Sign
Language


Bears
Bears

Galleries
Watercolor Paintings
 8 items

Photography
 6 items

Lithography
 3 items

 
About the artist
Emily Terhune Korson
The focus of my recent paintings is the interior world of the human body. In an attempt forge a connection between the scientific and the spiritual, I transform small dispassionate photographs of cadavers culled from medical textbooks into meticulously rendered oil paintings. This work was initially inspired by my husband’s experiences dissecting the deceased as a part of his medical education. I intend, however, to give rise to questions of existence rather than provide explanations of physiology. The works...