Block Colors on Canvas

1934

Signed Lower Right & Verso

Image Size: 29 1/2 x 25 1/2 Inches

Known for her personal scenes of American life in the Great Plains and beyond, Kady Faulkner shows her skill of modernist depiction in Birches.

Painted on the shores of lake Saranac in the summer of 1934, Faulnker had taken a vacation that summer from her masters work at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln. It was also around 1934 when Faulkner began studying under renowned abstractionist Hans Hoffman at the Art Students League in New York.

 In this painting, ribbons of blue, purple, and green weave horizontally across the landscape while the winding branches of a birch tree in the foreground give gorgeous depth to this work. Subsequently, a “window-like” effect is created, giving the viewer a glimpse into the goregeous catskill mountians in 1934.

         Faulkner’s work is held by numerous public and private collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum of Nebraska art, University of Colorado Art Museum, and Sheldon Museum of Art, just to name a few.