Green Corn Dancer
Tonita Vigil Pena (Quah Ah), San Ildefonso Pueblo / American, 1893 - 1949, San Ildefonso Pueblo (P‘o-Woh-Ge-Owinge), Southwest
before 1931
Gouache on cardboard
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 7 1/8 in. (28.6 × 18.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
W.935.1.90
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Classification
Native American
Watercolor
Native American: Southwest
Not on view
Inscription
Signed, lower right: Quah Ah / Tonita Pena
Course History
NAS 30.1, ARTH 17, Modern Native American Art History, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013
Exhibition History
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.
Native American Studio School Watercolors, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October--December, 2010.
Generations in Modern Pueblo Painting: The Art of Tonita Pena and Joe Herrera, Fred Jone Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, January 25-April 8, 2018.
Exhibition of American Indian Painting and Crafts of the Southwest, 1915-1940, Taylor Hall, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York, February 1941.
Publication History
W. Jackson Rushing III, Generations in Modern Pueblo Painting, The Art of Tonita Pena and Joe Herrera, Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018, ill. p. 55, plate 13.
Exhibition of American Indian Painting and Crafts of the Southwest, 1915-1940, Poughkeepsie: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1941, no. 14.
Provenance
Eastern Association for Indian Affairs sale at Miss Wheelwright's [Mary Cabot Wheelwright (1878-1958)], North East Harbor, Maine, August, 1931; sold to Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948); given to present collection, 1935.
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