Carolina St I

Carolina State I, a 1986 R.C. Gorman serigraph, presents a standing Navajo woman wrapped in a vivid orange-and-magenta-striped Mexican serape with fringed edges, her bare feet peeking out from beneath a soft cream skirt. Her head tilts sleepily against the folded textile as her dark hair falls softly around her face. Gorman renders the warm-palette composition on a pristine white ground with a scribbled charcoal shadow beneath her feet to anchor the pose. The bold saffron-yellow and hot-pink stripes of the serape make this one of the most joyous textile-centered images in the artist’s printmaking output. Signed and numbered from a limited edition, Carolina St I is a superb acquisition for collectors of Gorman serigraphs, Navajo serape imagery, and Southwest fine art prints.