Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Acquired from the above by the present owner
“Acquisitions and Gifts 1993,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin, 1994, p. 164
“Light & Verity,” Yale Alumni Magazine, February 1998, p. 13
Kari M. Main, Please Be Seated: Contemporary Studio Seating Furniture, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1999, p. 28, back cover
American • 1944
Judy Kensley McKie is an American designer best known for her whimsical furniture, which often features animal forms and a combination of woodworking and bronze casting. As McKie’s woodworking career progressed, she moved from carving animals in relief onto the surfaces of cabinets and tables, to carving animals out of the body of the form itself, becoming the arms, legs and back structural supports of her designs, to fully realized animal sculptures incorporated into her designs that appear to be in movement, simultaneously living within the object and among its users.
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