Chela St I

Chela State I, a 1980 R.C. Gorman lithograph, depicts a seated Navajo woman looking back over her shoulder with a gentle, inquisitive gaze. She wears a soft periwinkle-blue blouse over a voluminous cream skirt that pools around her bare feet, with her long dark hair cascading in loose waves. The sepia-toned ground carries subtle pencil shading that gives the figure a drawing-study intimacy while the tender contours of her shoulders, hands, and toes showcase Gorman’s virtuosic line work. Signed and numbered from a limited edition, Chela St I is a superb early-1980s pickup for collectors of Gorman lithographs, Navajo figure studies, and Southwest fine art prints built on refined draftsmanship.