Hales is delighted to announce that The Philbrook Museum of Art, OK, USA, has acquired Kay WalkingStick's 1969 work, Grand Tetons.
Over a career spanning six decades, WalkingStick's practice has focused on the American Landscape and its metaphorical significance to Native Americans and people across the world. WalkingStick draws 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. Attempting to unify the present with history, her complex works hold tension between representational and abstract imagery. Her paintings represent a knowledge of the earth and its sacred quality.
WalkingStick's practice is both a visual record of her experience on earth and her attempt to come to terms with Indian history that is such a crucial part of America's history. In works of rich colors and bold forms there is a sense of ancestral presence and a deep connection to place.
Kay WalkingStick
Grand TetonsPhilbrook Museum of Art
2727 S Rockford Road
Tulsa, OK 74114
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