Hopi Women Carrying Water Vessels
c. 1920
Artist, Hopi, 1900 - 1986
Artwork overview
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Medium
transparent and opaque watercolor with brush and black ink over graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image (irregular): 19.05 × 19.37 cm (7 1/2 × 7 5/8 in.)
sheet: 28.58 × 36.2 cm (11 1/4 × 14 1/4 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.390
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Amelia Elizabeth White, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1937; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1977
Fred Kabotie—Hopi Artist, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff; Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio, 1977-1978
1980
Symbols and Scenes: Art By and About American Indians, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980 (as "Water Carriers")
2024
"American Modernism. Borderlands: Expanded Visions of the Southwest," National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 15, 2024–January 10, 2025.
Bibliography
1983
Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 194, no. 1313.
Inscriptions
lower right in black gouache: Fred Kabotie; lower left in graphite by uknown hand: EYB [erased]; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 346 [upsdie down]; left center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 98442-3 [not deciphered]
Watermarks
None.
Wikidata ID
Q64570654