Acquisition | Kay WalkingStick at The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Hales is excited to announce that multiple Kay WalkingStick's work's are now in the Museum of Modern Art collection.

 

Over a career spanning six decades, WalkingStick's practice has focused on the American Landscape and its metaphorical significances 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 early work focused on an exploration of the body, which she painted as a flattened silhouette & often depicting nudes in bright colors. As WalkingStick continued to explore conceptual ideas, she became fascinated by Native American histories and her own heritage.