Fortitude

500 piece puzzle featuring artwork by Kyle Staver. 

Engaging with the beautiful and the grisly of canonical Western narratives in equal measure, Kyle Staver finds her inspiration in sources ranging from the Bible to ancient Greek mythology.

In Fortitude (2022), Staver reimagines one of the four cardinal virtues by depicting a knight astride a horse having just slain a dragon. But the knight is a woman, medusa is her shield, and she is not in any way in need of being rescued. 

Product Information:

• 500 piece puzzle
• Completed puzzle size: 24x18in
• Box size: 10x8x2in
• Designed in Brooklyn, printed, assembled, and packed in the USA.
• Made with 100% recyclable materials

About the Artist:

Kyle Staver (b. Virginia, MN, US; lives and works in New York, NY, US) earned her BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design and her MFA from Yale University. In 2015, she was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize, and in 2003, she was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. She has had solo exhibitions at Nino Mier Gallery, Brussels; Half Gallery, New York; Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles; Zürcher Gallery, New York; Galerie RX, Paris; Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York; among many others.

Her work is in the collections of the National Academy of Design (New York), The American Academy of Arts and Letters (New York), The National Arts Club (New York), The McEvoy Foundation (San Francisco), and Portland Community College (Portland, Oregon). Staver is also recognized as a distinguished member of the National Academy of New York.