Green Corn Dance
Awa Tsireh (Alfonso Roybal), San Ildefonso Pueblo / American, 1898 - 1955
San Ildefonso Pueblo (P'o-Woh-Ge-Owinge)
Southwest
before 1930
Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on wove paper, mounted on board
Sheet: 29 1/2 × 21 1/4 in. (74.9 × 54 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
W.935.1.95
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
Not signed. Label, on reverse: Machine-printed label with values entered by typewriter, affixed to backing: Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. / 10 West Fifty-fourth Street, New York / Artist Awa Tsireh [underscored] / (American Indian) / Subject _____ / Date _____ / No. _____ ; machine-printed label with values entered in pen and ink, affixed to backing: The EXPOSITION of / INDIAN TRIBAL ARTS / INCORPORATED / TITLE Corn Dance / ARTIST Awa Tsireh / LOANED BY / Mrs. J.D. Rockefeller / NUMBER / 1004 / CAT. NO. / 156 / CIRCULATING UNDER THE AUSPICES OF / THE COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION
Exhibition History
Anthropology of Religion, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 48, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30-May 2, 2004.
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, sponsored by the College Art Association, New York, no. 156, toured the United States and Europe, 1931-1933.
Gifts of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Dartmouth College Museum & Galleries, Carpenter Hall Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11 - July 11, 1976.
Images of the West: Selections from the Permanent Collection, MALS 190, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 15 - August 28, 1994.
Native Ecologies: Recycle, Resist, Protect, Sustain, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-Juy 15, 2019.
Survival/Art/History: American Indian Collections from the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 6, 2001-April 7, 2002.
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. 55.
Catalogue: Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, Inc., 578 Madison Avenue, New York, Endorsed and Circulated through the College Art Association, 1931, no. 156.
Provenance
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), by 1931; given to present collection, 1935.
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