il sogno del cortile (The Courtyard Dream)

2004

Kay WalkingStick

Artist, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, born 1935

Allan Edmunds

Printer, American, born 1949

Shown from the waist down, two pairs of legs, silhouetted in matte gold, float to our left of center from top edge of the composition against a streaks and smears of cobalt blue and muted mint green in this abstract, horizonal print. The image spans two pieces of paper, so there is a narrow white margin down the center. The legs seem to face each other in profile, knees touching or overlapping. One foot in the pair to our right is lifted behind the body and the person to the left stands up on the toes of both feet. A network of stylized stems, leaves, palm fronds, and perhaps narrow tree trunks in rust brown overlays the blue and green field. In pencil under the image in the lower left, an inscription reads, “il sogno del cortile 14/50,” and to the right, “Kay WalkingStick 2004,” though not all the letters are fully articulated.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    screenprint, collagraph, and lithograph on two sheets of Rives BFK wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jon D. Smith, Jr., Harold and Janet Tague, and Riley Temple

  • Dimensions

    overall: 57.15 × 76.52 cm (22 1/2 × 30 1/8 in.)
    image (each approx.): 42.1 × 34.3 cm (16 9/16 × 13 1/2 in.)
    sheet (each approx.): 57.2 × 38.2 cm (22 1/2 × 15 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2008.82.1.12.a-b

Associated Artworks

See all 14 artworks

The Bridge

John Dowell, Experimental Printmaking Institute

2004

Twin Portals: Homage to the Twin Towers

Richard Anuszkiewicz, Experimental Printmaking Institute, Robert Beckman, Ian Short

2003

Family Series

Allan Edmunds, Experimental Printmaking Institute

2004


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Experimental Printmaking Institute, Easton, Pennsylvania; acquired 2008 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Inscriptions

a) "il sogno del cortile 14/50" lower left margin, graphite;
b) "Kay Walkingstick 2004" lower right margin, graphite.

Watermarks

a) BFK Rives / France / [infinity symbol]


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