Faun and Spirits
Yeffe Kimball, Faun and Spirits, 1942, oil on canvas, Gift of Dr. William Kenneth Livingston, © artist or other rights holder, 50.178
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- Title
Faun and Spirits
- Related Titles
alternate: Fawn and Spirits
- Artist
- Date
1942
- Medium
oil on canvas
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
display: 19 in x 29 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
label: Annual Fiesta Exhibition, Museum of New Mexico, back
label: Arts and Crafts Club, New Orleans., back
label: Painting in the United States, 1945. Carnegie Institute., back
signature: Yeffe V. Kimball, brush, lower right
label: Oklahoma Annual, back
- Collection Area
American Art
- Category
Paintings
- Object Type
painting
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Gift of Dr. William Kenneth Livingston
- Accession Number
50.178
- Copyright
© artist or other rights holder
- Terms
Kimball first studied art in her native Oklahoma before attending the Art Students’ League in New York and working with Fernand Léger in France. Although she absorbed the lessons of European modernism, her introduction to African art in the late 1930s awakened a new interest in Native American art and her own heritage as a member of the Osage tribe.
Fawn and Spirits references the flat, simplified forms of Native American ledger book paintings as well as their symbolic content and subject matter, while employing a modernist vocabulary of color and composition.