Green Corn Dance
Tonita Vigil Peña (Quah Ah), San Ildefonso Pueblo / American, 1893 - 1949
San Ildefonso Pueblo (P'o-Woh-Ge-Owinge)
Southwest
about 1920-21
Gouache on paper
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 15 1/2 in. (28.6 × 39.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
W.935.1.94
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: Tonita Pena
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.
Gifts of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Dartmouth College Museum & Galleries, Carpenter Hall 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. 9.
C. Norris Millington, "American Indian Water Colors," The American Magazine of Art, August 1932, p. 86., ill.
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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