Draw your own picture of two or more animals together or try to draw one of the images below. Describe the interaction within the scene. Animals have many rich colors and textures. She had her first one-person museum exhibition at the Amarillo Museum of Art in 1978, from which this painting was drawn. Since then she has had major museum and gallery shows, and her work appears in public and private collections all over the world.
Similar subjects can have many different artistic interpretations.
Here we see an example of a relatively contemporary artist working in what is essentially a 19th century style and subject - the romantic view of the untamed American West. While several of the animals are dramatically silhouetted, the figure in the center of the composition is probably emphasized the least. Along with Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorky, Franz Kline, and her husband, Willem de Kooning, this artist saw the role of leadership in modern art shifted for the first time from Paris to New York City. Elaine de Kooning's specialty was depicting figures in action through the use of slashing, multidirectional brush strokes. In her drawings, such as this one of bulls, she was able to suggest the potential of strength and movement through strong, active line.