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“Lost Imagist” JULIA SCHMITT HEALY’s (b. 1947) captivating wood-grain drawings and wallpaper collages, privately referred to as Housewife Works, depict women made of woodwork. There is a wooden bride in a bridal veil, wooden bodies, wooden portraits and women who seem to be pulled in many directions. Growing out of that series are mixed media collages, inspired by and created with fake woodgrain-paneled wallpaper found at a hardware store, illustrating the head of a lady, a wrapped mummy head, a surprised ghost with a knothole for a mouth and a coffin. All of these works were made while …