Four Winds Gallery
Current Exhibition:
Bruce King June 2011
Past Exhibitions:
Denise Wallace March 2011
Cody Sanderson 2010
Buying Trip 2010
Historic Pueblo Ollas
For the Collector 2010
Stan Natchez 2009
Buying Trip 2009
Old Pawn Collection
Denise Wallace
Cody Sanderson
Buying Trip 2008
R.C. Gorman
Bruce King and Na Na Ping
Jovanna Poblano and Daniel Chattin
Buying Trip 2007
Liz Wallace
Stan Natchez - Shoshoni/Paiute Artist
NaNa Ping and Thomas Bucich
Buying Trip 2006
George Catlin
Denise and Samuel Wallace
Image Gallery - Denise and Samuel Wallace
Image Gallery - Dawn Wallace
Charlene Reano
Buying Trip 2005
Robert Deurloo
Edward Sheriff Curtis
Liz Wallace
Buying Trip 2004
Zapotec Weavings of Teotitlan
Clifford Fragua
NaNa Ping
R.C. Gorman, June 2008
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Four Winds Gallery invites you to a rare event - a retrospective collection of works by acclaimed Navajo artist R.C. Gorman (1931 - 2005).
SATURDAY 21st JUNE 2008 Noon to 5:00pm
Hailed by the New York times as the 'Picasso of the American Indian', Rudolph Carl Gorman was, and still remains, one of the most influential and pivotal artists in the world of American Indian Art.
Remaining true to the inspiration and stylistic devices of his native Navajo reservation, heritage and people until his death in 2005; Four Winds Gallery has the pleasure to exhibit a collection of his most outstanding works.
A selection of R.C. Gorman’s best works from 1931-2005 have recently been acquired by Four Winds Gallery from the R.C. Gorman estate in Taos, New Mexico.
This collection includes a range of lithographs, silk screens, prints, paper casts and bronze sculpture.
Click here to view R.C. Gorman's collection
R.C. Gorman Biography (1931 - 2005)
Born in 1931 and raised on the Navajo reservation, the late R.C. Gorman has achieved international acclaim and status as the foremost Indian Artist of his time. From his early years as a sheepherder living in a Hogan; to his most recent showing at Four Winds Gallery, a retrospective exhibition of his life’s work, Gorman has remained a study in contrasts.
As an acclaimed Navajo artist, R.C. Gorman was one of the most widely recognised personalities in Native American Art. His amazing charisma and overwhelming ‘Navajo’ presence has been the subject of dozens of books written on his works and life.
Not only have his simple expressive images of Navajo women become renowned and admired worldwide, but the late artist himself is the centre of much fascination. In ceaseless media interviews he continued to be as much the subject as his art. His extravagant lifestyle, witty charm and flamboyant Hawaiian shirts and headbands often seemed larger than life.
Despite his mercurial rise to prominence in the art world, Gorman observed, “The reservation remains my source of inspiration,” and he continued to use evocations of his rich Navajo heritage as his favourite subject matter.
R.C. Gorman hailed from an artistic lineage, his great-grandfather was prominent silversmith ‘Slender-maker-of-Silver’ and his father was one of the first painters to depart from established Indian styles.
Gorman rejected both traditional Indian and most European modernist examples, and instead embraced the graphic approach of the Mexican Social Realist painters, such as Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Drozco, and the simplified forms of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso.
The celebration of the ordinary peasant and the Indian legacy of the Mexican culture inspired Gorman to concentrate on representing his own people.
Gorman’s prominence expanded rapidly after he founded his own gallery in New Mexico in 1968, the first Navajo to have done so.
The inherent appeal of Gorman’s imagery and his intuitive gift for promotion propelled him to a summit of success by the mid 1980’s.
One of the most important moving forces of his enormous popularity was his mastery of the art of lithography. After two decades of brilliant paintings and drawings he turned to lithography in the late 1960’s and it was in this medium which he achieved world-wide recognition. A vigorous renaissance of lithography occurred in the United States during the last three decades, and to date over 400 lithographs, as well as oil and pastel paintings, etchings, silk screens, writing, pottery and sculpture exist.
R.C. Gorman’s range of works is represented in Australia exclusively by Four Winds Gallery, Sydney, in our current exhibition; a retrospective collection.
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1. ´Twilight´ (49.5cm x 64.8cm)
2. ´Beautyway´ (79.6cm x 95cm)
3. ´Mariposa´ State I (61cm x 81.3cm)
4. ´Mariposa´ State II (61cm x 81.3cm)
5. ´Remembering´ (76.2cm x 57.2cm)
6. ´Proud Lady´ (76.2cm x 57.2cm)
7. ´Gala´ State I (72.6cm x 60.9cm)
8. ´Gala´ State II (76.2cm x 60.9cm)
9. ´Shoshanna's Bracelet´ (63.5cm x 76.4cm)
10. ´Laila's Child´ (55.9cm x 76.2cm)
11. ´Nazbah´ (61cm x 83.8cm)
12. ´Damita´ (55.9cm x 74.9cm)
13. ´Masa´ (91.4cm x 74.9cm)
14. ´Florencita´ (76.2cm x 91.4cm)
15. ´Mimbres Woman´ (74.9cm x 91.5cm)
16. ´Pomo´ (76.2cm x 99.4cm)
17. ´Yossibah´ (48.3cm x 63.5cm)
18. ´Nicole´ (61cm x 45.7cm)
19. ´Ginny´ (61cm x 45.7cm)
20. ´Angela's Baby´ (63.5cm x 48.3cm)
21. ´Scarlett´ State I (66cm x 81.3cm)
22. ´Que Bonita´ (66cm x 55.9cm)
23. ´Night Watch´ (92.7cm x 68.6cm)
24. ´Kiana´ Paper cast (58.4cm x 50.8 x 2.5cm)
25. ´Glenna´ Paper cast (49.5cm x 64.8cm)
26. ´Carol´ Paper cast (58.4cm x 63.5cm x 2.5cm)
27. ´Two Women´ Paper cast (61cm x 55.9cm)
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