Corn Lady (Reminiscence Suite)

Corn Lady, a 1974 R.C. Gorman lithograph from the Reminiscence Suite, depicts a Navajo woman kneeling low over a bundle as she works it against an orange-washed ground, three tall green cornstalks rising behind her. She wears an olive-gold blouse and a white skirt streaked with fiery orange, her bare feet tucked beneath her and her hair gathered into a classic low bun. Gorman blends warm saffron yellow, pumpkin, and russet in the background, evoking late summer at the cornfield. The piece is annotated at the lower right as a color trial proof, making it an early working state of the Reminiscence Suite image. A must-have acquisition for collectors of Gorman lithographs, Southwest fine art, and Native American figurative prints.