Riley White Jingle Dancer
Today's post is just a memoire. It is of a treasured painting that hangs on my office wall. Here I have taken a digital picture of it, and cropped away the frame. You can see it is slightly distorted because it was photographed at an angle. I did not remove it from the wall to snap a pic.
It is special for a couple of reasons. I just like it. Riley White was my father in law and I keep this painting for my son Justin, so he'll have one of his grandfather's artworks. I also like the colors and the iconic historical angles... which to me are evocative of the 1930's and 1940's public art industrial movement paintings.
Riley White was a contemporary (age mate is perhaps a better term) of Woody Crumbo and the Kiowa Five. One or more of his works are at the Museum at Bacone. He was a prolific painter and his works are still found from place to place. I think this one was either purchased at Cherokee Gift Shop or gifted from a co-worker, Mrs. Louise Covey aka Louise Ballard. She taught Home Economics at Sequoyah High School and in the very early 1960s my mother was her intern teacher at Sequoyah High School in Home Ec. Riley taught Arts and Crafts at Sequoyah High School and many gifted artists still living were his students.
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