June 22 | Duane Linklater
2016
21.5 x 26.5 inches
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Jesse Ed Davis was a Comanche/Kiowa musician born in Norman, Oklahoma, in 1944. He was involved in many projects as a sideman and as a supporting guitarist with Taj Mahal, John Lennon, and George Harrison, among others. He died tragically on June 22, 1988. He released three solo albums, the first of which is represented in this artwork. The cover image of this record is a painting credited to Jesse Edwin Davis II, his father, with cover concept and design by Jesse Edwin Davis III. On the record’s third song, “Washita Love Child,” the lyrics are as follows:
mom said to son
what about your school books?
thinking what about the draft?
daddy said honey don’t you worry about this boy
he’s headed somewhere
got a guitar and a van to ride
This record features many important contributors such as Eric Clapton (who plays a solo on “Washita Love Child”), Gram Parsons, and Leon Russell, among others. It is also notable that Jesse himself arranged and produced this record and appears on guitar, keyboards, and vocals.
–Duane Linklater
ABOUT DUANE LINKLATER
Born 1976 in Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada
Duane Linklater is Omaskêko Cree, from Moose Cree First Nation in Northern Ontario, and is currently based in North Bay, Ontario. He was educated at the University of Alberta and the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College and in 2016 he received the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Media Art from the Canada Council for the Arts. Linklater was included in the 2016 exhibition “Working Conditions” at Gallery TPW.
Selected solo exhibitions: “From Our Hands,” Mercer Union, Toronto, and 80WSE Gallery, New York (2016); “Salt 11: Duane Linklater, “ Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City; and “Modest Livelihood” (in collaboration with Brian Jungen), Reva and David Logan Center Gallery, University of Chicago, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and Vox Centre de L’Image Contemporaine, Montreal (2012–14).
Selected group exhibitions: “In Search of Expo 67,” Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2017); SeMa Biennale, Mediacity Seoul (2016); “Residue: The Persistence of the Real,” Vancouver Art Gallery (2015); “Where Do I End and You Begin?” Edinburgh Art Festival (2014); “2013 Sobey Art Award Exhibition,” Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax (2013); “Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop, and Aboriginal Culture,” Musée d’art Contemporain Montréal, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, and Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC (2013).
2016
21.5 x 26.5 inches
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Jesse Ed Davis was a Comanche/Kiowa musician born in Norman, Oklahoma, in 1944. He was involved in many projects as a sideman and as a supporting guitarist with Taj Mahal, John Lennon, and George Harrison, among others. He died tragically on June 22, 1988. He released three solo albums, the first of which is represented in this artwork. The cover image of this record is a painting credited to Jesse Edwin Davis II, his father, with cover concept and design by Jesse Edwin Davis III. On the record’s third song, “Washita Love Child,” the lyrics are as follows:
mom said to son
what about your school books?
thinking what about the draft?
daddy said honey don’t you worry about this boy
he’s headed somewhere
got a guitar and a van to ride
This record features many important contributors such as Eric Clapton (who plays a solo on “Washita Love Child”), Gram Parsons, and Leon Russell, among others. It is also notable that Jesse himself arranged and produced this record and appears on guitar, keyboards, and vocals.
–Duane Linklater
ABOUT DUANE LINKLATER
Born 1976 in Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada
Duane Linklater is Omaskêko Cree, from Moose Cree First Nation in Northern Ontario, and is currently based in North Bay, Ontario. He was educated at the University of Alberta and the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College and in 2016 he received the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Media Art from the Canada Council for the Arts. Linklater was included in the 2016 exhibition “Working Conditions” at Gallery TPW.
Selected solo exhibitions: “From Our Hands,” Mercer Union, Toronto, and 80WSE Gallery, New York (2016); “Salt 11: Duane Linklater, “ Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City; and “Modest Livelihood” (in collaboration with Brian Jungen), Reva and David Logan Center Gallery, University of Chicago, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and Vox Centre de L’Image Contemporaine, Montreal (2012–14).
Selected group exhibitions: “In Search of Expo 67,” Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2017); SeMa Biennale, Mediacity Seoul (2016); “Residue: The Persistence of the Real,” Vancouver Art Gallery (2015); “Where Do I End and You Begin?” Edinburgh Art Festival (2014); “2013 Sobey Art Award Exhibition,” Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax (2013); “Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop, and Aboriginal Culture,” Musée d’art Contemporain Montréal, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, and Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC (2013).
2016
21.5 x 26.5 inches
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Jesse Ed Davis was a Comanche/Kiowa musician born in Norman, Oklahoma, in 1944. He was involved in many projects as a sideman and as a supporting guitarist with Taj Mahal, John Lennon, and George Harrison, among others. He died tragically on June 22, 1988. He released three solo albums, the first of which is represented in this artwork. The cover image of this record is a painting credited to Jesse Edwin Davis II, his father, with cover concept and design by Jesse Edwin Davis III. On the record’s third song, “Washita Love Child,” the lyrics are as follows:
mom said to son
what about your school books?
thinking what about the draft?
daddy said honey don’t you worry about this boy
he’s headed somewhere
got a guitar and a van to ride
This record features many important contributors such as Eric Clapton (who plays a solo on “Washita Love Child”), Gram Parsons, and Leon Russell, among others. It is also notable that Jesse himself arranged and produced this record and appears on guitar, keyboards, and vocals.
–Duane Linklater
ABOUT DUANE LINKLATER
Born 1976 in Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada
Duane Linklater is Omaskêko Cree, from Moose Cree First Nation in Northern Ontario, and is currently based in North Bay, Ontario. He was educated at the University of Alberta and the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College and in 2016 he received the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Media Art from the Canada Council for the Arts. Linklater was included in the 2016 exhibition “Working Conditions” at Gallery TPW.
Selected solo exhibitions: “From Our Hands,” Mercer Union, Toronto, and 80WSE Gallery, New York (2016); “Salt 11: Duane Linklater, “ Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City; and “Modest Livelihood” (in collaboration with Brian Jungen), Reva and David Logan Center Gallery, University of Chicago, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and Vox Centre de L’Image Contemporaine, Montreal (2012–14).
Selected group exhibitions: “In Search of Expo 67,” Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2017); SeMa Biennale, Mediacity Seoul (2016); “Residue: The Persistence of the Real,” Vancouver Art Gallery (2015); “Where Do I End and You Begin?” Edinburgh Art Festival (2014); “2013 Sobey Art Award Exhibition,” Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax (2013); “Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop, and Aboriginal Culture,” Musée d’art Contemporain Montréal, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, and Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC (2013).