How the West is One
Artist
Will Wilson
(North American Indian, Diné (Navajo), New Mexico, born 1969)
CultureDiné (Navajo), New Mexico
Date2014
MediumTwo inkjet prints
DimensionsImage (each): 31 1/2 × 22 1/4 inches (80.01 × 56.52 cm)
Sheet (each): 36 × 24 inches (91.44 × 60.96 cm)
Framed: 43 × 57 3/4 × 2 inches (109.22 × 146.69 × 5.08 cm)
Sheet (each): 36 × 24 inches (91.44 × 60.96 cm)
Framed: 43 × 57 3/4 × 2 inches (109.22 × 146.69 × 5.08 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: American Indian Deaccession Fund
Object number2016.59.1,2
MarkingsAP 1/1
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionThe work consists of two separate photographs that constitute a single work. Both are self-portraits. In one, Wilson has portrayed himself in traditional dress and hair style; in the other, he appears in cowboy, or western dress.Exhibition History[RE]CLAIM: Indigenous Artists Reflect on Identity, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, December 14–June 16, 2019.
With Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM, by 2016;
Purchased from Peters Projects by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Torrence, Gaylord, ed. Continuum: North American Native Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Copyright© Will Wilson
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