Overland Park ? A painter who lost more than 400 original works in a gallery fire is painting again, and about to put his work on display.

During the next two weeks Gil Rumsey will be one of four artists featured at a show put on at Gold Bank in the Kansas City suburb of Leawood.

“It’s a great start,” Rumsey said.

The fire March 1 in Overland Park, another Kansas City suburb, destroyed 427 of Rumsey’s paintings. He had valued them at more than $1 million, but said they were insured for about one-fourth that amount.

Rumsey, who said he is still negotiating a settlement, is also trying to find another gallery to call his own.

“We haven’t found a temporary place yet,” Rumsey said. “Nobody wants to give you a one-year lease. But we’re confident we’ll land someplace.”

Rumsey, 59, has completed about 30 pieces in the three weeks since the fire – primarily abstract floral arrangements, as well as Missouri and Kansas landscapes.

Rumsey, who grew up near Topeka, graduated from Kansas State University. Much of his work features iconic images of the Kansas City area, such as the Liberty Memorial, Union Station and the Country Club Plaza shopping district.

His original gallery, built in 1924 in an older section of the suburb commonly called Downtown Overland Park, was a total loss in the three-alarm fire. He had owned the building for more than two decades

The Kansas City area has rallied behind Rumsey since the fire. He said he has received hundreds of messages of support, and some collectors have offered to return his works so he can resell them – although Rumsey has turned down those offers.