Breadmaker

Breadmaker, a 1988 R.C. Gorman lithograph, captures a Navajo woman kneeling before a traditional adobe horno oven, sliding a round loaf inside with a long-handled wooden paddle. She wears a rich lavender blouse and dusty purple skirt, her hair wrapped in a lively green shawl decorated with red and pink blossoms, a small turquoise earring glinting at her ear. Behind her, distant mesas recede in layers of rose, peach, and pale teal, suggesting dawn light across the high desert. Gorman celebrates the daily rhythm of Pueblo bread baking with warm reverence. Signed and numbered from a limited edition, Breadmaker is a perfect acquisition for collectors of Gorman domestic imagery, Southwest adobe horno art, and Native American fine art lithographs.