Running Deer
1920-1930
Artist, San Ildefonso, 1904 - 1987

Artwork overview
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Medium
transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on wove paper mounted to board
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 37.15 × 71.12 cm (14 5/8 × 28 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.394
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. John Mead Howells, New York; 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
1931
The Exposition of Tribal Indian Arts, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, 1931, no. 188
1980
Symbols and Scenes: Art By and About American Indians, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980 (as "Leaping Deer Design")
1983
American Master Drawings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983 (as "Design of Leaping Deer")
1986
American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1986-1988, pp. 60-63, no. 35, repro (as "Design of Leaping Deer")
2024
"American Modernism. Borderlands: Expanded Visions of the Southwest," National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 15, 2024–January 10, 2025.
Bibliography
1973
Tanner, Clara Lee. Southwest Indian Painting, A Changing Art. Tucson: University of Arizona, 1973. (as Leaping Deer Design)
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. 199, no. 1341 (as Design of Leaping Deer).
Wikidata ID
Q64628547