Why Blagdon’s “The Healing Machine” (c. 1950–86), which consists of more than 400 separate pieces — paintings on wood, boxes full of found materials, and intricate wire hangings — survived. Dan Dryden ...

The story of a man who spent his life building a "healing machine." In a shed near Stapleton, Nebraska in the late 1950’s Emery Blagdon began shaping everyday castoff materials with one purpose – to ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. From the late 1950s until his death ...