Two Kossa

c. 1925

Awa Tsireh

Associated Names
Awa Tsireh

Artist, San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1898 - 1955

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brush and black ink with watercolor over graphite on card

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Amelia E. White)

  • Dimensions

    image (irregular): 19.05 × 19.69 cm (7 1/2 × 7 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 28.89 × 36.35 cm (11 3/8 × 14 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.381

More About this Artwork

This is a black-and-white photograph of a rocky landscape with a patch of scrubland stretching out into the distance. Closest to us, on the left side, a tall rocky mountain rises up. Standing on the rocks is a woman with her back to us. She has long, dark, straight hair that falls down her back, and she is wearing a dark, long-sleeved shirt and a wide white skirt. In her left hand, she appears to hold a rope, or perhaps her hand is tangled in her long hair. In her right hand, she holds a large square object with a handle that looks like a radio or similar device. She stands behind tall, dark gray leafy plants. On the right, the background reveals a vast open terrain dotted with small shrubs under a light gray sky.

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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

1931

  • The Exposition of Tribal Indian Arts, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, 1931

1972

  • Arts of the American Indian, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California, 1972

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. 188, no. 1266.

Inscriptions

lower right in black ink: Awa Tsireh-; upper center verso in graphite by unknown hand [upside down]: IX 396 - 3 [not deciphered]; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 51-83 / $12.00

Markings

None.

Watermarks

None.

Wikidata ID

Q64537079

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