Hales is excited to announce that the Saint Louis Art Museum has acquired work by Kay WalkingStick.
Over a career spanning five decades, WalkingStick's practice has focused on the American Landscape and its metaphorical significances to Native Americans and people across the world. Personal Icon (1975) is from a period of paintings that marks WalkingStick's first foray into abstraction. In the year prior she had created a series of paintings of her artist apron hanging on a wall of colour. The draped piece fabric became a repeating motif, which WalkingStick describes as, 'simple iconic shapes.' Here, she removes the reference to the outside world in favor of pure abstraction, a work that explores shape and colour.
This acquisition is courtesy of the Saint Louis Art Museum, The Siteman Contemporary Art Fund, and funds given by Barbara and Andy Taylor, the WernerFamily, John and Susan Horseman, Christine Taylor-Broughton and Lee Broughton, Nancy and Kenneth Kranzberg, Pam and Greg Trapp, Mr. and Mrs. Gary Wolff, Dottie and Kent Kreh, Dwyer Brown and Nancy Reynolds, Suzy Besnia and Vic Richey, Clare M. Davis and David S. Obedin, Yvette Drury Dubinsky and John Paul Dubinsky, in memory of Pauline E. Ashton, and Kiku Obata.
Over a career spanning five decades, WalkingStick's practice has focused on the American Landscape and its metaphorical significances to Native Americans and people across the world. Personal Icon (1975) is from a period of paintings that marks WalkingStick's first foray into abstraction. In the year prior she had created a series of paintings of her artist apron hanging on a wall of colour. The draped piece fabric became a repeating motif, which WalkingStick describes as, 'simple iconic shapes.' Here, she removes the reference to the outside world in favor of pure abstraction, a work that explores shape and colour.
This acquisition is courtesy of the Saint Louis Art Museum, The Siteman Contemporary Art Fund, and funds given by Barbara and Andy Taylor, the WernerFamily, John and Susan Horseman, Christine Taylor-Broughton and Lee Broughton, Nancy and Kenneth Kranzberg, Pam and Greg Trapp, Mr. and Mrs. Gary Wolff, Dottie and Kent Kreh, Dwyer Brown and Nancy Reynolds, Suzy Besnia and Vic Richey, Clare M. Davis and David S. Obedin, Yvette Drury Dubinsky and John Paul Dubinsky, in memory of Pauline E. Ashton, and Kiku Obata.
Saint Louis Art Museum
One Fine Arts Drive
Forest Park
St. Louis, Missouri 63110-1380
United States
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November 20, 2023
