Chimayo Night

Chimayo Night, a 1982 R.C. Gorman lithograph, is the nocturnal companion to Chimayo Day, rendering the same lone Navajo woman cloaked in a cream-to-cobalt-blue gradient rebozo beneath a deep navy sky sprinkled with tiny white stars. The distant butte rises in soft violet silhouette over a hushed twilight desert floor of cool lavender and warm pinky-tan. Gorman’s atmospheric color blocking achieves a serene, reverent mood that captures the spiritual quiet of the Chimayo valley after dark. Signed and numbered from a limited edition, Chimayo Night pairs beautifully as a diptych with Chimayo Day and is a superb acquisition for collectors of Gorman landscape imagery, Navajo homeland art, and Southwest fine art lithographs.