Rainbow and Deer Design
Awa Tsireh (Alfonso Roybal), San Ildefonso Pueblo / American, 1898 - 1955
San Ildefonso Pueblo (P'o-Woh-Ge-Owinge)
Southwest
1925-1930
Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on wove (Canson & Montgolfier) paper, mounted on board
Overall: 18 15/16 × 24 3/4 in. (48.1 × 62.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
W.935.1.96
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, in ink, lower right: Awa Tsireh; Small white oval label on back of print: Fogg Art Museum. 235.28; square label: C.M.A./TR2896/10 157
Course History
NAS 30.1, ARTH 17, Modern Native American Art History, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 31, Myth of the Noble Savage, Meghan Rice, Class of 2006, Special Projects Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 3-May 21, 2006.
Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, sponsored by the College Art Association, New York, no. 157, toured the United States and Europe, 1931-1933.
Native Ecologies: Recycle, Resist, Protect, Sustain, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-July 15, 2019.
The Arts of Native America: Studio Painting, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 8-June 3, 1979.
Publication History
Catalogue: Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, Inc., 578 Madison Avenue, New York, Endorsed and Circulated through the College Art Association, 1931, no. 157.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, ill. p. 226.
Provenance
Collection of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), by 1931; given to present collection, 1935.
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