Untitled (Cochiti Dancer)

Joe Hilario Herrera, Cochiti Pueblo / American, 1923 - 2001
Cochiti Pueblo (Kotyete)
Southwest

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1940s

Gouache on wove paper

Overall: 5 × 4 in. (12.7 × 10.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Jon Gilbert Fox and Darrell Hotchkiss, Class of 1971

2015.34

Geography

Place Made: Cochití Pueblo, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Watercolor

Research Area

Watercolor

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed in ink lower right: JHHERRERA; inscribed in graphite on back of original window mat: Joe Herrera / Cochiti; numbered in graphite on back of original window mat: #4 / 4 65

Published References

Bernstein, Bruce and W. Jackson Rushing. Modern by Tradition: American Indian Painting in the Studio Style. Santa Fe: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. Franco, Jere’ Bishop. Crossing the Pond: The Native American Effort in World War II. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 1999. Vol. 7. War and the Southwest Series. Jacobson, O. B. and Jeanne D’Ucel. American Indian Painters. Nice, France: C. Szwedzicki, 1950. Volume II. Rushing, W. Jackson III, editor. Native American Art in the Twentieth Century. New York: Routledge, 1999. Sharp, Gwen and Lisa Wade. “What is ‘Indian Art’?” Contexts. 9.3. 76-77. 2010. American Sociological Association. DOI:10.1525/ctx.2010.9.3.76 Smith, Peter. “The Unexplored: Art Education Historians’ Failure to Consider the Southwest.” Studies in Art Education. 40.2. Winter 1999. 114-127. JSTOR. Townsend-Gault, Charlotte. “Impurity and Danger.” Current Anthropology. 34.1. Feb. 1993. 93-100.

Provenance

Unidentified store, White River Junction, Vermont; sold to Jon Gilbert Fox, Hanover, New Hampshire, early 2000's; given to present collection, 2015.

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