Louisa Keyser Praised in the New York Times
Marc Tracy examines the outstanding mastery of Keyser’s art while highlighting the complex artist-patron relationship that enabled it
1916
willow, bracken fern root, red birch bark
width: 15"
Inventory # S4403
Sold
LK60 can be seen in several vintage postcards and photographs
The Emporium Company, Carson City, NV, obtained from the artist March 23, 1916
Jerold Collings, New Mexico
Gallery 10, Scottsdale, AZ
Private Collection, Arizona
Wayne A. Thompson and Eugene S. Meieran, California Indian Basketry, Ikons of the Florescence, El Cajon: Sunbelt Publications, 2021, pg. 139, fig. 245
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
Marc Tracy examines the outstanding mastery of Keyser’s art while highlighting the complex artist-patron relationship that enabled it
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”