Chili Picker

Chili Picker, a 1991 R.C. Gorman lithograph, depicts a kneeling Navajo woman in a deep burgundy blouse and flowing cream skirt beside the adobe wall of a traditional New Mexico home, her hair pulled back into a low bun with a white ribbon. A tall slatted wooden bushel basket overflowing with red, green, and orange chiles stands at her side, with loose chile pods scattered across the warm sienna ground. Behind her, a hazy Southwest horizon shows distant violet mesas under a soft lavender and peach sunrise sky. Signed and numbered from a limited edition, Chili Picker is a tender acquisition for collectors of Gorman chile harvest imagery, Southwest adobe art, and Native American fine art lithographs.