Sims, Agnes C. 1910-1990

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Most of Sims paintings and sculptures were inspired by petroglyphs, but unlike her documentary drawings they never were literal copies.  Rather she adopted and adapted the two-dimensional representations of people and animal into an art that fit comfortably into the larger world of mid-century modernism.  She used simple, idiosyncratic figures to create her own symbolim, the original meanings of the ancient art being mostly lost to the past.