Carol’s Blanket St I

Carol’s Blanket State I, a 1984 R.C. Gorman serigraph, wraps a standing Navajo woman head to foot in an oversized Plains-style wearing blanket of warm sepia, purple, and cobalt-blue stripes with a dense black fringe trailing to the floor. Her face tips upward, chin and cheekbones catching pale cream light, while the rest of her figure dissolves into the textile’s rhythmic banding. Gorman reduces the background to pure cream paper so the blanket’s weaving dominates the composition like a sculpted column. Signed and numbered from a limited edition, Carol’s Blanket St I is a signature Gorman textile-portrait print and a major acquisition for collectors of Gorman weaving imagery, Navajo blanket art, and Southwest fine art serigraphs.