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