Whether your card game of choice is Go Fish, Gin Rummy or Texas Hold 'Em, these decks will add a little pizazz to your play. All 52 cards in this standard deck will feature one of two paintings from Vance Kirkland's Open Suns series; grab a pack of each style for your next Double Solitaire or Canasta tourney.
- Choose from two deck designs (sold separately)
- Dimensions: 2.5 x 3.5 inches
- Weight: 2 oz
- Tuck box includes information about the featured painting
- A Kirkland Museum exclusive
About the Open Suns Paintings (1971–1972)
Vance Kirkland (1904–1981) completed 17 Open Suns paintings as a series within his fifth and final period, also known as the Dot Paintings. With his Open Suns paintings, Kirkland abstractly portrays the birth of stars which have ignited and are undergoing nuclear fusion. Kirkland noted that if one pulled back from the Open Suns paintings, you could be in one of his Energy of Mysteries paintings (1972–1976). If you pull back farther from those paintings, you could be in an exploding galaxy (his Energy of Explosions series from 1976 to 1979). Finally, if you pull back from an Explosions painting, you could be in a Forces dot painting, depicting the shock waves or forces formed from the explosion. Kirkland died during the Energy of Forces series (1979–1981). Thus, the Open Suns series was the beginning of an incredible visual journey through space and time that viewers continue to enjoy today. Learn more about Kirkland and his painting career at KirklandMuseum.org.
About the featured paintings:
Vance Kirkland (1904–1981, American)
Six Red Openings in Blue Space, 1971
Oil on linen, 30 x 30 in
© Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art
Vance Kirkland (1904–1981, American)
Fourteen Orange Suns in Grey Space, 1971
Oil on linen, 66 x 66 in
© Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art