Sienna, Turkey Madonna, Shutesbury, Massachusetts

Series TitleBare Handed

Artist Holly Lynton (American, born 1972)

Date2010; printed 2023

MediumChromogenic print

DimensionsImage, sheet, mount: 30 5/8 × 40 3/4 inches (77.79 × 103.51 cm)
Framed: 31 3/4 × 41 7/8 × 1 3/4 inches (80.65 × 106.36 × 4.45 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of the Beckett Art Purchases Fund in memory of Samuel and Ethel Beckett

Object number2023.29

SignedOn frame backing board, lower right, white label with black pen: "5/5 Holly Lynton [signature]"

InscribedOn frame backing board, lower right, white label with black type: "Sienna, Turkey, Madonna, Shutesbury, Massachusetts, 2010 / 30 x 40-inch c-print / Edition"

Markingsnone

Edition/State/Proofed. 5/5

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DescriptionImage of a young woman with dark hair standing behind a table with four turkeys. Her arms are draped around them and white feathers fill the right half of the frame.Gallery Label

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In this image, Holly Lynton records the precise moment a young girl bowed her head toward the turkeys in her care, a pose that reminded Lynton of European paintings of the Madonna and Child from the early 1500s. She recalls: "Sienna was really the turkey whisperer of the family. Before I knew it, she had these four turkeys with her arms around them. She tilted her head, which I never could have anticipated or planned . . . it was a little bit of magic."

Provenance

Holly Lynton, Leverett, MA, 2023;
Momentum Fine Art Services, Miami, FL, 2023;
Purchased by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2023.

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