A joyful painting by Nena Howell depicting a child performing a somersault in front of a bentwood box.

Bentwood Somersaults Original Oil Painting by Nena Howell Tlingit Artist

Regular price$2,300.00
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This artwork is currently “ON HOLD” for exhibition. Available for purchase at Best of Northwest fall show, November 8-10, Hanger 30, Magnuson Park, Seattle.

This joyous child's soles fly in this somersault in front of a formidable bentwood box, which is wrapped in a grid protection from ancestral Alaska native rope. Faint Tlingit formline ovoid figures carved into the wood watch the child’s cedar woven hat’s rim crush into the floor. The somersault’s dynamism lifts the father's Kaagwaantaan spirit in the realm of child’s play. Although hidden to the viewer, the bentwood box is full of toys. Alaska Native Indian clan leaders bentwood boxes always hold the most important objects in the world, and what is more special than toys in a child’s universe? A signature collection oil-on-canvas titled "Bentwood Somersaults" by Nena Howell, a  Certified Alaska Native Artist, Tlingit artist, Nena Howell, 2024.

Theme: Figurative Fine Art, Contemporary Visual Art, Indigenous Art, Alaska Native Certified Artist, Tlingit Art, and Figurative Art
Materials: Oil on canvas
Framing: Floater frame silver front, black sides
Dimensions: 24 x 24 x 1.5"
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In my favorite chair, I want to see this each morning with my coffee

Victoria

I dreamt about it last night and keep thinking of it, I must bring it home.

Deb

This one, took my breath away.”

Nicole

So joyful.

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I have to have this one, it makes me think of my family.

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