The Pioneering Art of Louisa Keyser
Louisa Keyser is highlighted in an article in the Wall Street Journal as a “pioneering modernist as finely attuned to form as any artist working in her lifetime”
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Extolling the Hunters Mokeewit LK51
Louisa Keyser (Dat So La Lee), 1850-1925
Southern Washoe
Nevada
Southern Washoe
Nevada
1911
willow, bracken fern root, red birch bark
width: 22 ½"
Inventory # S4427
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LK51 can be seen in a photograph taken by Edward S. Curtis in 1924 - See: Wayne A. Thompson and Eugene S. Meieran, California Indian Basketry, Ikons of the Florescence, El Cajon: Sunbelt Publications, 2021, pg. 134, fig. 224
PROVENANCE
The Emporium Company, Carson City, NV, obtained from the artist July 1, 1911
Green Collection, Woodbury, NJ
Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, November 19, 1971, lot 136
Louis E. Meekins, Texas
Jerold Collings, New Mexico
Gallery 10, Scottsdale, AZ
Private Collection, Arizona
PUBLISHED
Wayne A. Thompson and Eugene S. Meieran, California Indian Basketry, Ikons of the Florescence, El Cajon: Sunbelt Publications, 2021, pg. 129, fig. 212
RELATED EXAMPLES
For related baskets and an essay on Dat So La Lee's work see: Marvin Cohodas Phd, "Dat So La Lee's Basketry Design", in: American Indian Art Magazine, Autumn, 1976, pgs. 22-31
For an essay on Washoe Basketry see: Marvin Cohodas Phd, “Washoe Innovators and Their Patrons”, in Edwin L. Wade (ed.), The Arts of the North American Indian: Native Traditions in Evolution, New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1986, pgs. 203-210
Ralph T. Coe, Sherry Brydon, Gilbert T. Vincent (eds.), Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000, pg. 285, pl. T751
Bruce Bernstein and Gerald McMaster (eds.), First American Art: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of American Indian Art, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004, pg. 238, pl. 187
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