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Mask III

R.C. Gorman

About The Mask III

Illustrated and documented on page 136 of  R.C. Gorman:  The Graphic  Works

Two additional lithographs make up Gorman's mask series:  Mask II and Mask IV.

Likely another lithograph titled Born of Water, printed at Tamarind a few months earlier in 1975 was the inspiration for Masks II, III and IV.   Last photo represents Born of Water by Gorman printed in February 1975. 

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Illustrated and documented on page 136 of  R.C. Gorman:  The Graphic  Works

Two additional lithographs make up Gorman's mask series:  Mask II and Mask IV.

Likely another lithograph titled Born of Water, printed at Tamarind a few months earlier in 1975 was the inspiration for Masks II, III and IV.   Last photo represents Born of Water by Gorman printed in February 1975. 

About the Artist

Rudolph C. Gorman was born in 1931 on the Navajo Nation at Chinle, Arizona. As a boy, his life was very traditional, herding sheep with his maternal grandmother. He attended school on the reservation through high school. He attended Arizona State College (now Northern Arizona University). He took a break from his schooling to enlist in the U.S. Navy for four years.

Returning to NAU in 1955, he studied art and literature. Gorman studied at Mexico City College for a year on a Navajo tribal scholarship. While in Mexico, he discovered the renowned artists Zuniga, Orozco, Rivera, and Siqueiros, whose work had a profound impact on him. Zuniga’s manner of handling the female figure was a great influence on Gorman.

R. C. and his father, noted artist and Navajo code-talker, Carl Nelson Gorman held a two-artist exhibit at the Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1964 and at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona in 1965. Since then, R.C. traveled, and his work had been exhibited, all over the world. In 1968, Gorman acquired the Manchester Gallery in Taos, New Mexico and renamed it the Navajo Gallery.

A very prolific artist, R.C. Gorman has been called "Picasso of Indian artists". Best known for his sensitive and beautiful depictions of Navajo women, he passed away in 2005.

Culture American Indian, Navajo
Style Figurative Expressionism
Medium Color lithograph
Edition 3/ 50
Paper size 16" height X 12 3/4" width
Frame floated against archival mat board, regular glass, blond wood molding
Frame size 24 3/4" height X 21 3/4" width
Signed "RC Gorman 1975" at viewer's lower right in graphite in image
Date of creation 1975
Published by Windmill Press
Condition Excellent, as appeared framed, glazed
Provenance APF, acquired from Navajo Gallery in Taos, New Mexico
Atelier Windmill Press
Other Works by R.C. Gorman
Self Portrait State 2, Prints by R.C. Gorman Women in Blue, Drawings by R.C. Gorman Woman Kneeling, Drawings by R.C. Gorman Young Taos Boy, Drawings by R.C. Gorman
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