Blue Gem St I

Blue Gem State I, a 1999 R.C. Gorman lithograph, shows a seated Navajo woman in a striking violet blouse trailing down into a voluminous coral-pink skirt that sweeps across the foreground in rich painterly folds. Her long black hair cascades over her shoulders as her head tilts gently forward, a turquoise-studded Blue Gem cuff visible on her wrist. The background is a soft pastel gradient that fades from powder blue at top through buttery cream to warm tan, evoking a serene high-desert dawn. Gorman’s mastery of color temperature is on full display here, balancing cool violet and blue against the saturated warm pink of the skirt. Signed and numbered from a limited edition, Blue Gem St I is a refined choice for collectors of Gorman turquoise imagery, Southwest fine art prints, and Native American figurative lithographs.