The Speed Art Museum acquires work by Kay WalkingStick

Hales is delighted to announce that Kay WalkingStick, #261 Ohio Spring, 1985 has been acquired by the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, USA, purchased with funds from the Alice Speed Stoll Endowed Art Acquisition Fund.

 

Over a career spanning seven decades, WalkingStick's practice has drawn on formal modernist painterly traditions as well as the Native American experience to create works that connect the immediacy of the physical world with the spiritual.

 

From the mid-1970s to mid-1980s WalkingStick employed a distinct abstract vocabulary. During this critical period, WalkingStick’s formal language centered around the arc and the line - elements which compose a tepee form. In #261 Ohio Spring, 1985, WalkingStick creates layers of texture and color with oil stick on paper, with two arcs facing away from each other, suspended in the composition.