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(from 2014.Old Walks and New)
Michael James Allen, American (Kansas), b. 1954
Old Church Road, 2011, oil on canvas
Old Church Road starts a mile west of Maple Hill, KS, and runs deep into the Flint Hills. According to Allen, he drove this dirt track “past countless farms and ranches trying to imagine families riding miles and miles in a buckboard every Sunday morning to church.” The diagonal shapes of grasses, trees and clouds communicate the wind sweeping across the Kansas prairie.