Kenneth Riley (1919 – 2015)
Winter Solstice (1997)
oil on canvas
52 × 46 inches
signed lower right
VERSO
Label, Nedra Matteucci Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico
As George Catlin described, “A stranger in the Mandan village is first struck with different shades of complexion, and various colours of hair which he sees in a crowd about him; and is at once almost disposed to exclaim that ‘these are not Indians.’ … The Mandans are a pleasing and friendly race of people, of whom it is proverbial amongst the Traders and all who ever have known them, that their treatment of white men in their country has been friendly and kind ever since their first acquaintance with them – they have ever met and received them, on the prairie or in their villages, with hospitality and honour.”
PROVENANCE
Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada, 2008
Private collection, California
EXHIBITED
A Poetic Spirit – The Enduring Art of Kenneth Riley, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2003
LITERATURE
A Poetic Spirit – The Enduring Art of Kenneth Riley, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 2003, pp. 42-43, illustrated
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Condition
Surface is in good condition. Faint craquelure in the pink and orange portions of background, foreground, and on Indian’s legs. No signs of restoration.