Canyon Woman

Canyon Woman, a 1989 R.C. Gorman lithograph, pictures a kneeling Navajo woman at the edge of a glowing blue-green canyon river, wrapped in a soft lavender robe with a deep burgundy fringed shawl pooling around her. Beside her sits a dramatic Acoma-style polychrome olla painted in black, terracotta, and cream geometry. Behind her, the red-rock canyon walls rise in vivid bands of peach, pumpkin, and deep cobalt shadow under a twilight sky. Gorman’s rich color blocking and painterly contour work celebrate both the land and the pottery tradition that springs from it. Signed and numbered from a limited edition, Canyon Woman is a dream acquisition for collectors of Gorman red rock imagery, Navajo pottery prints, and Southwest fine art lithographs.