Running Deer, 1920-1930

East Building, Ground Level — Gallery 106-A

Medium

transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on wove paper mounted to board

Dimensions

sheet: 37.15 × 71.12 cm (14 5/8 × 28 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Amelia E. White)

Accession Number

2015.19.394

Artists / Makers

Richard Martinez (artist) San Ildefonso, 1904 - 1987

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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

Corcoran Gallery of Art
White, Amelia E.

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")

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).