Rain Clouds, Hunter and Deer

Awa Tsireh (Alfonso Roybal), San Ildefonso Pueblo / American, 1898 - 1955
San Ildefonso Pueblo (P'o-Woh-Ge-Owinge)
Southwest

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1925-1930

Watercolor on paper

Sheet: 16 1/4 × 22 1/4 in. (41.3 × 56.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

W.935.1.97

Geography

Place Made: San Ildefonso Pueblo, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Watercolor

Research Area

Native American

Watercolor

Native American: Southwest

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, lower right: Awa Tsireh

Course History

NAS 30.1, ARTH 17, Modern Native American Art History, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013

Exhibition History

Exhibition of American Indian Painting and Crafts of the Southwest, 1915-1940, Taylor Hall, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York, February 1941.

Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, Inc., no. 159, sponsored by the College Art Association, New York, toured the United States and Europe, 1931-1933.

Gifts of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Dartmouth College Museum & Galleries, Carpenter Halll Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-July 11, 1976.

Native Ecologies: Recycle, Resist, Protect, Sustain, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 17-December 30, 2019.

The Arts of Native America: Studio Painting, Dartmouth College Museum & Galleries, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 8-June 3, 1979.

Publication History

Exhibition of American Indian Painting and Crafts of the Southwest, 1915-1940, Poughkeepsie: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1941, no. 56.

Catalogue: Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, Inc., 578 Madison Avenue, New York, Endorsed and Circulated through the College Art Association, 1931, no. 159.

Provenance

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), by 1931; given to present collection, 1935.

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