Kenneth Riley, (1919-2015)

Sisters 42 x 36in

Sisters
signed, dated and inscribed 'Kenneth Riley NAWA 87 ©' (lower right)
oil on canvas
42 x 36in
Painted in 1987.

Provenance
Overland Trail Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 1987.

Exhibited
Indianapolis, 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.

Literature
S.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1 Kenneth Riley, unpublished letter, 8 April 1990.