Kenneth Riley (1919-2015)


Sisters signed, dated and inscribed 'Kenneth Riley NAWA 87 ©' (lower right)oil on canvas42 x 36inPainted in 1987.
|ProvenanceOverland Trail Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona.Acquired by the late owner from the above, 1987.ExhibitedIndianapolis, Indiana, Eiteljorg Museum, West of Camelot: Paintings by Ken Riley, June-October 1993, pp. 136-38, illustrated.Kerrville, Texas, Cowboy Artists of America Museum, CA Retrospective: Mehl Lawson and Kenneth Riley, July 16-October 1, 1997.LiteratureS.H. McGarry, Honoring The Western Tradition: The L.D. "Brink" Brinkman Collection, Kerrville, Texas, 2003, p. 145, illustrated.The artist wrote to L.D. Brinkman about the subject of the present work, musing in his letter, "In this dual image painting I was intrigued with the possibility of portraying time and space through the images of two identical people of different time periods, both linked by a cultural heritage that denotes continuity. One an early woman of the plains - the other a completely contemporary version."1 1 Kenneth Riley, unpublished letter, 8 April 1990.