Chuska Storm (Anniversary Suite)

Chuska Storm (Anniversary Suite), a 1997 R.C. Gorman lithograph, depicts a lone Navajo woman cloaked in a striking red-and-cream striped blanket, standing in the vast high desert as a dramatic curtain of rain falls from a turbulent storm cloud over the distant Chuska Mountains. Two tiny figures mark the scale of the plain at far right. The sky explodes in bands of rose, coral, and violet against the deep eggplant mountain silhouettes, while the warm russet desert floor stretches outward. Gorman’s atmospheric color blocking conveys both the power of the storm and the quiet endurance of the standing woman. Signed and numbered from a limited edition, Chuska Storm is a must-have acquisition for collectors of Gorman landscapes, Navajo homeland imagery, and Southwest fine art lithographs.